I have a members-only website built in EE2, used for private discussions for a professional community. I already have it set up so members can create new posts, and get email notifications of follow-up comments, but want to extend it with a couple of extra features for the busy members::
1) I’d like members to be able to get an email notification whenever a new entry is posted (being busy people, they tend not to actively check a website). At the moment only the Admins get notifications.
2) I’d like to be able to create a periodic (eg weekly) summary of new posts/comments. Ideally this would just be generated automatically on a fixed schedule. But it would be fine it needed to be manually triggered somehow, so long as the process isn’t too involved (I will need to train a non-technical person to do it). For example, can I create an email template for the communicate/mailing list module which uses standard EE tags to pull in the last 7 days entries?
If anyone can give me an idea as to whether these are possible, and where to start within EE to implement them, that would be really helpful. I’ve no objection to using paid modules for this. I’ve tried Googling but without much success, and I don’t want to spend days hacking around only to find none of this is actually possible.
Thanks,
Sophie