Conditional Sending of a Dynamic Newsletter

Guess I haven't run across this before but you'd think if there were no new issues for that newsletter, it wouldn't send. Have you tried/tested that? What results did you see? If it doesn't work by default the way we're both thinking, a global event handler would be where I'd start to look to handle this.

Hey Zach, That is exactly what I did. I created a custom macro that made the conditional test i wanted and if not true then it put the ##DONOTSEND## into the page title.

Can you give an example of the custom macro you created to do this? I've written an expression that says

{%if (CurrentDocument.Items.Count> 0) {"PageTitle"} else {"##DONOTSEND##"}|(identity)GlobalAdministrator%}

but it always evaluates to the false condition no matter if the page contains content or not.

Hey Mark,

I'm doing the following...

{% if (!IsRecentResearch()) { "##DONOTSEND##" } |(identity)GlobalAdministrator%}

where IsRecentResearch() is a custom macro doing all of the work. The macro code is...

[MacroMethod(typeof(bool), "Determines if a there have been any new blog posts in the last week", 1)]
public static object IsRecentResearch(EvaluationContext context, params object[] parameters)
{
    return Helper.GetRecentResearchCount() > 0;
}

and that calls the helper method that is...

public static int GetRecentResearchCount()
{
    return DocumentHelper.GetDocuments("custom.ResearchItem").Count(b => b.GetDateTimeValue("BlogPostDate", DateTime.Now) >= DateTime.Now.AddDays(-7));
 }

This works on version 8.1.2. What version are you on?

When I run your macro, I get a blank value for the CurrentDocument.Items.Count and therefore it's always going be false.

What are you trying to accomplish with your macro?