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I created a email template for contact list's communication event. The email template consists of a subscribe email address and a unsubscribe button. The people who receive email message can know which email address that they subscribed for a contact list and feel easy to unsubscribe the contact list from the email message.
> Change Contact List Subscription Process
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> Key: OFBIZ-4055
> URL:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-4055> Project: OFBiz
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: specialpurpose/ecommerce
> Affects Versions: SVN trunk
> Environment: Ubuntu 10.04
> Reporter: Chatree Srichart
> Fix For: SVN trunk
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> Attachments: contactlist.patch, ean.vcf
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> I think the current contact list subscription process is not complete. The current process is when a user enter his/her email address on the e-commerce page for subscribing a contact list. The system will set ContactListParty's status to "Accepted". I think that should be set to "Pending Acceptance" first and wait for a user's confirmation from user's email inbox. Also the system should have a unsubscribe process to expire user's email address from a contact list. I found the unsubscribe statuses in StatusItem entity, "Unsubscription pending" and "Unsubscribed", but they don't be used.
> I think the processes should following:
> Subscribe process
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> 1. The user select a contact list and enter his/her email address
> 2. The system create a ContactListParty with "Pending Acceptance" status
> 3. The system send a verify email message to the user's email address
> 4. The user confirm the subscribing in his/her email inbox
> 5. The system change the status of ContactListParty to "Accepted"
> Unsubscribe process
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> 1. The use select a contact list and enter his/her email address
> 2. The system change the status of ContactListParty to "Unsubscription pending"
> 3. The system send a verify email message to the user's email address
> 4. The user confirm the unsubscribing in his/her email inbox
> 5. The system change the status of ContactListParty to "Unsubscribed"
> The both of processes, subscribe and unsubscribe, should also support if the user do not login to the system.
> I changed following:
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> - create "Subscribe Contact List Notification" and "Unsubscribe Contact List Verify" as email type for email settings of product store
> - create "signOutForContactList" service for setting a contact list party's status to "CLPT_UNSUBS_PENDING"
> - create "updateContactListPartyNoUserLogin" service to handle updating the contact list party without user login
> - create "sendContactListPartySubscribeEmail" service for sending an email message to user after the user confirm the subscription. This email message would contains a button for requesting unsubscribe the contact list
> - create "sendContactListPartyUnSubscribeVerifyEmail" service for sending an email message to user after the user request to unscrube. This email message would contains a button for unsubscribing the contact list
> - add SECA when the "createContactListPartyStatus" be called with "CLPT_ACCEPTED" status then call the "sendContactListPartySubscribeEmail" service to send the subscribe email message.
> - add SECA when the "createContactListPartyStatus" be called with "CLPT_UNSUBSCRIBED" status then call the "sendContactListPartyUnSubscribeEmail" service to send the unsubscribe email message.
> - add SECA when the "createContactListPartyStatus" be called with "CLPT_UNSUBS_PENDING" status then call the "sendContactListPartyUnSubscribeVerifyEmail" service to send the email message to verify unscribing.
> - for starting receive a subscribe, change the contact list party's status from "CLPT_ACCEPTED" to "CLPT_PENDING" because the status should be pending before receiving a verify message
> - create "ContactListSubscribeEmail" and "ContactListUnsubscribeVerifyEmail" mail screens
> - add "ProductStoreEmailSetting" demo data for productStoreId="9000" with "SUB_CONT_LIST_NOT" and "UNSUB_CONT_LIST_VERI" email types
> - change "verifyUrl" in the email message's form to "updateContactListPartyNoUserLogin" because if the user doesn't have a user login then could not view the ecommerce's "viewprofile" screen.
> - add "preferredContactMechId" field to the "createContactListPartyStatus" and "sendContactListPartyUnSubscribeEmail" services because I get the contactMechId from ContactListParty instread of UserLogin because these services also be called without authentication.
> - add "Unsubscribe" button to "Sign Up For Contact List" section of the ecommerce's screen for requesting unsubscribing
> Thank you
> Regards,
> Chatree Srichart