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collective.megaphone (2.1.5)
by
Olha Pelishok
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last modified
2011-10-27
Released on 2011-10-25 by Onenorthwest, David Glick for Plone 3.3, Plone 4.0, Plone 4.1 under GPL - GNU General Public License available for All platforms.
Software development stage: stable
- collective.megaphone download link: http://plone.org/products/megaphone/releases
- Homepage of collective.megaphone: http://plone.org/products/megaphone
- collective.megaphone repository: http://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/collective.megaphone/trunk
- Description source: http://dev.plone.org/collective/browser/collective.megaphone/trunk/README.txt
Run an online advocacy campaign from your Plone site.
Megaphone makes it easy to build powerful online advocacy campaigns in Plone.
Features
- Letters to decision makers
- Required and optional recipients
- Save data locally
- Save data to Salesforce.com (requires salesforcepfgadapter)
- Email letters to targets
- Customizable thank-you letter to sender
Limitations
No product is perfect. There are some important things Megaphone doesn't do (yet), including:
- Matching of users to targets based on postal address
- Delivery to targets who don't have a publicly-accessible email address
How it works
Megaphone builds on top of several fantastic Plone products to do its work without reinventing the wheel.
- The heart of Megaphone is PloneFormGen, which provides the core form-handling capabilities.
- Because advocacy letter is a fairly complicated PloneFormGen with lots of defaults, we've built collective.z3cform.wizard which lets us make a very user-friendly wizard for building out the advocacy letter. The wizard can be run and then re-run to let a user change the settings. More advanced users can directly edit the PloneFormGen fields and objects to create more complex setups.
- Salesforce integration is via the Salesforce PFG Adapter and the underlying Salesforce Base Connector.
