Mass actions

Description How to access this screen Toolbar Filters Statistics open/not open Community Builder fields VirtueMart Orders VirtueMart shopper group VirtueMart fields jomSocial fields JUGA OSE membership control manager K2 user group Actions AcyMailing lists AcyMailing Fields Add an e-mail in the queue Remove an e-mail from the queue Auto-filters Examples Subscribe all your users to a list Subscribe all your Joomla users to a list Resend your confirmation e-mail to your users Send a reminder to users who didn't log in since 30 days Resend your Joomla confirmation e-mail Frequently Asked Questions What's the format to create dynamic dates? Can I do an OR condition between two filters?

Description

This screen enables you to execute actions on a selection of subscriber (using criteria).

It's the right tool to use if you want to mass confirm, enable, subscribe, delete users.

AcyMailing keeps track of the unsubscription of each user so that if you try to subscribe a user which already unsubscribed, this user won't be added back.

If you really want to add him back to your list, you should first remove his subscription and then subscribe him to the list.

Using AcyMailing Enterprise, you will get the same interface but we added a save button so you can save your filters and even execute them automatically!

This whole system uses the Joomla plugin triggers so you can add plugins to AcyMailing and add more filters or more actions.

How to access this screen

• On the AcyMailing back-end, go over the Lists menu to access the sub-menu Filters

Toolbar

• Process : This button enables you to execute the filters/action you configured
• Save : Save the current filter. If you click on this button, more options will be displayed enabling you to automatically trigger the saved filter
  
• Cancel : Returns to the List management view.
• Help : This button enables you to turn ON/OFF the help section, this screen will appear or disappear.

Filters

The filters enable you to create a selection of users.
If you don't add any filter, then all your users will be selected.

If you add more than one filter, an AND condition will be applied between all the filters.

• Group: Main Joomla group of the user
• AcyMailing List: You can choose if the selected users should be subscribed to one list and unsubscribed from another list or in pending status...
• AcyMailing Field: You can set a filter on any information of the AcyMailing User profile
• Joomla User Field: You can set a filter on any information of the Joomla User profile

Statistics Open/Not open

You can set a filter on the fact your e-mail has been opened, not opened, failed (or bounced for AcyMailing Enterprise).

Community Builder Field

You can set a filter on any information of the Community Builder User profile

VM Orders

You can filter your users based on the fact they bought or didn't buy a specific product from VirtueMart.

You can also specify a range of date on the order created date.

 

If you leave a field empty (for the created date), AcyMailing won't add the condition.

This filter will select only users who purchased AcyMailing Enterprise before May,24 2010.



The created date can be handled dynamically if you want to save this filter and execute it automatically.

That way, you can automatically send an e-mail to a user once he bought a product from your store or subscribe your user to a list and/or a campaign.

VM Shopper group

You can filter your users based on their shopper group in VirtueMart

VM Fields

You can set a filter on any information of the VirtueMart User profile

jomSocial Field

You can set a filter on any information of the jomSocial User profile

JUGA

You can filter your users based on their JUGA groups

OSE Membership Control Manager

You can filter your users depending on their membership on OSE Membership Control Manager.
Please download the plugin on our download section.

You can filter your users based on their expiration date on each plan.

By default, the filter expired_date > {time} will be displayed so users currently subscribed to your plan will be selected.

Using our automatic filters, you can automatically send an e-mail to a user or subscribe him to a campaign X days before his subscription expires or send reminders X days after his subscription expired if he still didn't renew his plan.

 

K2 User group

You can filter your users based on their K2 User group

Please download the plugin on our download section.

Actions

You can execute several actions on the selected users.

AcyMailing List

You can subscribe your users or remove them from a list.
This system is also working with our follow-up campaigns so you can massively start a campaign on your subscribers that way (in that case select the list name + Campaign at the end of the dropdown).
The campaign starts on the subscription date of the user so if you mass subscribe them on a campaign, all your users will receive the follow-ups at the same time.

AcyMailing keeps track of the unsubscription of each user so that if you try to subscribe a user which already unsubscribed, this user won't be added back.
If you really want to add him back, you should first remove the users from your lists and then subscribe them.

AcyMailing Fields

You can massively confirm / enable or block your users.

Add an e-mail in the queue

Based on your filters, you can decide to add an e-mail in the queue and send it at the specific date.

The send date field is a dynamic date field.

AcyMailing will add the e-mail in your queue.
Commercial versions of AcyMailing will then automatically send your e-mail using an automatic task so you have nothing to do.
If you use this filter to add a Newsletter in the queue with our free version, don't forget to process the queue manually.

Remove an e-mail from the queue

In many cases you will find it useful to remove e-mails from your queue based on some filters.

Auto-filters

Using AcyMailing Enterprise, you can save your filter to trigger it later or let AcyMailing triggering it automatically.

If you click a first time on the save button, more options will appear on the screen

• Title: You can set a title to your filter in order to recognize it easier in the future.
• Description: You can set a description for your own information.
• Enabled: A filter which is not enabled won't be triggered automatically.
• Automatically trigger the filter: you can select a series of events so the filter will be automatically triggered on a user action.
  • Every day : the filter will be automatically triggered everyday. Please make sure you already have a cron task configured for AcyMailing to enable this option.
    Auto-filters only trigger once a day regardless of your cron frequency.
  • On user creation : the filter will be triggered on the user creation but only when created from the front-end.
    That way, you can automatically subscribe your user to a campaign depending on his selection on the extra fields you created.
    The filter will be only executed on the current user, not on all users.
  • On user modification : the filter will be triggered on the user modification (i.e if a user field is modified).
  • When the user opens your Newsletter : the filter will be triggered on the user when he opens a Newsletter.
  • When the user clicks on an url from your Newsletter : the filter will be triggered on the user when he clicks on an url on your Newsletter (only displayed if you enabled the url tracker plugin).
    Please don't select both options "on open" and "on user click" otherwise both will be executed one after the other.
    You should rather select "on open" if you want to have both as if a user clicks on your link, AcyMailing will considered he opened your Newsletter.

Examples

Subscribe all your users to a list

If you want to subscribe absolutely all your users to a certain list, simply select the action type "AcyMailing List" and the action to subscribe users to your list.
You don't have to add any filter if you want to select all your users.

Then click on the button Process.

Subscribe all your Joomla users to a list

If you want to add all your Joomla Users in a list but not add the simple visitors (who subscribed to one or several lists on your website without registering on it), open a filter with the type "AcyMailing Field", select the field "userid", select the operator ">" and enter the number 0 in the input.

Then select the action type "AcyMailing List" and the action to subscribe your users to your list.

Then click on the button Process.

Resend your confirmation e-mail to your users

You can use our filters to resend your confirmation e-mail to unconfirmed users. (This feature has been added since AcyMailing 1.5.2)

On this example, we added three filters:

• confirmed = 0 (we only select unconfirmed users)
• created < {time} - 86400 (we only select users created before yesterday. Of course you can directly write a date in this field with the format YYYY-MM-DD such as 2010-03-25)
• created > {time} - 172800 (we only select users created two days ago)

Then  we added one action: add the confirmation email in the queue when the filter is triggered.

Once the e-mail is added in the queue, our commercial versions of AcyMailing will automatically take care of the send process using an automatic task.

You can execute this kind of filter with our free version but then you will have to manually trigger the send process.

Using AcyMailing Enterprise, you could save this filter and let AcyMailing automatically execute it every day (Auto-filters only trigger once a day regardless of your cron frequency).

If you create a reminder, only target at 24 hour range per confirmation reminder filter otherwise the same user might receive twice the reminder in a day.
If you want to remind multiple times, create separate filters for each reminder - each only targeting a separate 24 hour range.

AcyMailing will not let you send a message to unconfirmed users if you require a confirmation... unless you add the word "confirm" in your Newsletter alias.
That's a trick you can use to avoid an error message when sending a confirmation e-mail you created.

Send a reminder to users who didn't log in since 30 days

With AcyMailing Enterprise and the auto-filter feature, you can set up a message automatically sent to your users who didn't log in since 30 days on your website.

"Hey {subtag:name}, it's been a while since you last logged in, come to visit us again!"

Once your message created and published, access the mass actions interface and add this filter:

• The last logged in date should be between 30 days (2592000 seconds) and 31 days (2678400 seconds) ago.
• We also add a filter "not sent" with the same message to make sure that message is not already sent to the user (we may want to always send a reminder 1 month after the last logged in date even if the user already received it a few months ago).
• And then we add an action to add the e-mail in the queue.
• Save this filter and select the option to automatically run it every day.

Resend your Joomla confirmation email

You can configure AcyMailing to (automatically) send a message to users who didn't confirm their Joomla account.

First, create a Newsletter via AcyMailing:

• Alias: joomla-confirmation-enabled
  The alias matters... we add "confirm" and "enable" to it so Acy won't check the user based on its confirm and enabled field. So make sure to use that one!
• Published: Yes
• Your message content should include a link so the user can confirm his Joomla account:
  • For J1.5: yourwebsite.com/index.php?option=com_user&task=activate&activation={usertag:activation|urlencode}
  • For J2.5 and later versions: yourwebsite.com/index.php?option=com_users&task=registration.activate&token={usertag:activation|urlencode}

When you send this kind of message, please make sure to select only users which are not already confirmed in Joomla which means you should add a filter to select only:

• Users with the Joomla field : activation !=
• Users with the Joomla field : block = 1

You can also add an extra filter to only select users created within a period of time.