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Download file = subscribe to mailing list help needed please

Posted: Sat Dec 14, 2013 7:38 pm
by Kaylen
I am using CMS made simple 1.11.7

This is what I want:
On my website I want to offer customers a free ebook to download. They only have to give me their name and email adres ( in a form with a download button) and after that they get send an email with a (secured) link from wich they can download the ebook.
Their email adressen I then want to use to send them a newsletter.

What I have tried:
I tried something with mailchinp - did not work (maybe with the paid version, but did not try that)

Then I tried Download manager (1.5.3), when I restrict access to email only, Users do get a form which requests their email adres and name and even offers a checkbox which they can check if they want to stay updated on additional news. After filling it in, they get an email with a download link and the link works. So far so good. But what I cannot find is where the entered name + email adres is stored? So I cannot use them to send a newsletter to.

Does anyone know where downloadmanager saves that data? Then I might be there already :-) I still would manually need to add the email adresses to a newsletter program, but ok...

Another thing I tried is FEU 1.21.18 in combination with download manager, so I can keep track of the users and also so that I can determine what data I want from them and with FEU mailform/mailer I can send them a simple newsletter email. I like this option because I dont have to type over the email adress manually to some sort of newsletter module/app etc.

But when I restrict access to the download file only to FEU users, when you click on the download file, it just opens a non CSS version of my site, looks really weird and I dont think that is what it was supposed to do, but I cannot find out why it does that.
Anyone an idea maybe?

And maybe there is an even better way to achieve what it is that I want, so any and all help/ideas etc that you guys can offer me would be much appreciated! :-)

Thanks in advance!
Kaylen

Re: Download file = subscribe to mailing list help needed pl

Posted: Sat Dec 14, 2013 8:15 pm
by Kaylen
ok update

I have found why this happends:
But when I restrict access to the download file only to FEU users, when you click on the download file, it just opens a non CSS version of my site, looks really weird.

It does this because the user that accesses the link is not logged in.
BUT I would have expected that you would be redirected to a page where you could login, or even that it displayed an error message that you are not logged in and that you need to do so before you can acces the link.. Why doesn't it do something like that? And where can I set it to do that?
What I really want is that they get redirected to a page where they can register and then can download the file after logging in.

Any help would be much appreciated. O0

Re: Download file = subscribe to mailing list help needed pl

Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2013 7:52 pm
by Dr.CSS
There are settings in FEU that should redirect a non logged in user to the login page...