Front end API and Newsletter Studio Service

Some of the most common interactions with the Newsletter Studio-API is gathered in an interface called INewsletterStudioService.

With this you can for example:

• Add recipients
• Subscribe recipients to mailing lists
• Unsubscribe recipients

Just use the built-in IOC-container to get an instance of the interface by injecting it as a dependency in the constructor of your controller or use any of the service locators like DependencyResolver.Current for MVC.

Adding a recipient programmatically

The package ships with a simple macro to add a recipient to a list, you can find this in:

\App_Plugins\NewsletterStudio\Views\MacroPartials\NewsletterStudioSignup.cshtml

This showcases a simple way to add a recipient from the front end of your site, if you need to do this in your own controller, here is an example:

public class SubscribeSurfaceController : SurfaceController
{
    private readonly INewsletterStudioService _newsletterStudioService;

    public SubscribeSurfaceController(INewsletterStudioService newsletterStudioService)
    {
        _newsletterStudioService = newsletterStudioService;
    }

    public ActionResult Subscribe(SubscribeModel model)
    {
        var defaultMailingListKey = Guid.Parse("ff104e5c-a0c3-4a5b-a0eb-959685036b18"); // Replace with your mailing list key
        
        var request = AddRecipientRequest.Create("john.doe@foobar.com")
            .ForWorkspace(Guid.Parse("606D0954-DDAE-4ADF-BCB6-DD113ADD915E")) // Optional, only used with multiple workspaces
            .WithFirstname("John")
            .WithLastname("Doe")
            .WithSource("Website")
            .WithCustomField("city", "London")
            .SubscribeTo(defaultMailingListKey)
            .Build();

        var result = _newsletterStudioService.AddRecipient(addRecipientRequest);

        if (result.Success)
        {
            return Content("Subscribed");
        }
        else
        {
            return Content($"Error: " + result.Message);
        }
        
    }
}

The AddRecipientRequest-class contains a fluent API to set data for the operation, here are some of the methods:

• WithName(): Expects a full name and tries to parse it into first/last name.
• WithFirstname(): Sets the firs name
• WithLastname(): Sets the last name
• SubscribeTo(): Subscribes the new recipient to a given Mailing List. (Tip: Use the Mailing List Picker property editor in the backoffice UI if this needs to be a setting).
• ForWorkspace(): Sets the Workspace for the new recipient. Only needed when the solution has multiple workspaces.
• WithCustomField() Sets a custom field value for the recipient. The alias must match a configured field alias (Workspace settings)
• WithSource() Sets the source property for the recipients. Used to track where recipients subscribe, could be i.g "Homepage", "Footer form" or any string.

Sending transactional email programmatically

The service is also when you want to send transactional emails, please have a look at the transactional email guide for a complete example.

Updating subscription statuses for recipients

It's possible to update any subscription status from the service as well.

var recipientKey = Guid.Parse("1495412D-538C-480E-BAF2-C747D33A3E8B");
var mailingList1Key = Guid.Parse("5EC42DB0-E46D-4966-A5B4-3B4C3C578B98");
var mailingList2Key = Guid.Parse("A7D0BDAF-7BC9-4035-B65E-DDF81816103E");
            
var request = AddOrUpdateSubscriptionsRequest.Create()
    .Set(recipientKey,mailingList1Key,SubscriptionStatus.Subscribed)
    .Set(recipientKey,mailingList2Key,SubscriptionStatus.Subscribed)
    .Build();

var result = _newsletterStudioService.AddOrUpdateSubscriptions(request);

Custom Unsubscribe-page

It's possible to create a custom page where you can handle the unsubscription-process. This page can for example use the API in INewsletterStudioService to list the current subscriptions for the recipient.

First, configure the "Unsubscribe confirmation url" in the Settings under the Workspace.

When this is configured we'll route recipients that want to unsubscribe to this page and append a token to the URL.

https://www.mypage.com/custom-unsubscribe?token=acb123.....

When rendering this page you can use the ParseUnsubscribeToken(string token)-method of INewsletterStudioService to get information about the recipient eg. the RecipientKey. Further down the process you can pass the RecipientKey to the "GetSubscriptionsFor()", "RemoveRecpient()" or "Unsubscribe()"-methods.

Other useful methods

There is plenty of other useful methods on the INewsletterStudioService.

• SendMailMessage() - Sends a standard .NET MailMessage with the configured Email Service Provider.
• Unsubscribe() - Globally unsubscribes a recipient
• GetRecipientsByEmail() - Get's all recipient by the provided email. Note that one e-mail can exist multiple times if using multiple workspaces.
• GetSubscriptionsFor() - Get's all mailing list-subscriptions for a given recipient.
• IsValidEmail() - Checks if a string is a valid e-mail address.
• GetMailingListsForAllWorkspaces() - Gets all mailing lists for all Workspaces.
• RemoveRecipient() - Removes a recipient and makes and tracking data anonymized.