Weekly Digest | Communifire Documentation

The Weekly Digest email provides people with a summary of the new content within your community over the past week. It provides lists of content by space and content type from the last seven days. There are a number of settings that help site planners to tailor the digest to your needs, including how much detailed moderation control you want your content team to have over what items are included each week.

Customize the Weekly Digest

To customize the weekly digest, navigate to Control Panel > System > Email Templates and open the Weekly Digest email template. You can directly edit the template, making the customization process quick and seamless.

The default weekly digest email starts with the community name and a friendly greeting. Then there is a repeater that cycles through each of the recipient's spaces. The space name is prominently displayed before showing its content.

Within each space, the content types posted by members are displayed. This is achieved using another nested repeater within the space repeater. This content type repeater categorizes content by type and provides a count of each type of content item, such as posts, or articles. Each content item includes details like the author's name, publication date, views, and comment count, organized by a nested repeater within the content type repeater. 

A "Popular This Week" section highlights the most viewed or engaged content. It also uses a nested repeater to list popular content items. Each item includes the title, summary, author, publication date, and views, similar to the other sections.

At the bottom of the email, there is an explanation on how the recipient can change which spaces are included and a link for the recipient to stop receiving the digest altogether. This ensures that recipients have control over the notifications they receive, making it easy for them to stay informed about the things that matter most to them in their community.

1. Subject and Body: You can customize both the subject line and the body of the email using tokens which can be selected from dropdown menus for dynamic, relevant, and personalized content.
   
   Tokens include the recipient's display name, profile field information, content details (content count, author display name, body, category, and more), space details (name, description, member count, URLs), and general information (application URL, community name, current date, current year, default header, and styles).

2. Details: Provides a description of the template and includes information on the types of content that are included in weekly digest. This list is used on the left-hand template filter and cannot be changed.
   
   

3. CC: You can specify additional recipients for the email.
   
   

   • Recipient's supervisor: Add the recipient's supervisor to the CC list.
   • Specific users: Add specific users by name or username.
   • Specific emails: Add specific email addresses.

4. Settings: In the settings section, you can configure the specifics of the weekly digest email:  
   
   

   • Day of week: Choose on what day the weekly digest will be sent.
   • Send Start Time: Set the start time in the site's default time zone for when the email should be sent. 
   • Show featured content only: Choose whether only featured content should be shown in the digest.
   • Popular content count: Specify the number of popular content items to be included in the digest. This setting determines the number of most viewed items to show for each content type in each space. Note: Older popular content, even if from another week, may be included if it remains popular in the current week.
   • Email notification preferences: Override individual "Do not send me notifications" preferences for the daily digest only to reach people who may not want general system emails but do want the digest. This does not override the their digest email preferences.

5. Community Wrapper: Select a community wrapper to apply a predefined template that includes elements such as the company logo and footer to ensure consistent branding. 
   
   

6. Language: Create different versions of the template in different languages to ensure that the email is presented in the recipient's preferred language, enhancing readability and engagement.
   
   

7. Version history: You can utilize version history to view and compare all the previous revisions made to the template by other users. This feature helps you track changes, understand modifications, and maintain a clear and comprehensive record of all updates.
   
   

8. Save Template: Once all fields are filled in, click "Save Template" to store your new email template.

Related

Daily Digest

The daily digest email summarizes the past 24 hours of activity in spaces you are a member of. You can customize the wording and layout of the daily digest email.