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Hi all, I’m wondering if anyone can suggest a solution for this—whether native to EE or via a 3rd party extension.

I’m converting a static site to EE. The client sends out a regular email that includes information from a number of pages. The client only wants to type in the info once, so that it can appear on the relevant page but also in the email (for which I’m making a separate template and channel). That would be fine if the same info appeared in each email: the template would just pull in the latest channel entry from each relevant page. But the emails don’t always pull content from the same pages. (Sometimes it’s pages 1, 2 and 3, others pages 2, 5 and 7 etc.)

So I’m looking for suggestions on how to set up the email template so that content from different pages is shown at different times? Or is this too ambitious? Is there some way to pick and choose which bits do and don’t appear?

Thanks for any suggestions!

Hi Ralph,

You could create a separate newsletter/mail out channel with playa field displaying other entries. Client then can select the ones to email in any order.

Thanks Cem. I was starting to think Relationships might be the way to go, and I gather Playa adds a lot of options (though I haven’t used it).

One question: I haven’t tested this, but can you pull in Matrix data with a relationship (either with or without Playa)?

EDIT: silly me, checked the Playa page and it does seem to integrate with matrix fields. Which makes sense.  😝