I have an indonesian-russian vocabulary on my website consisting of 2 000 words. And the visitors of my website would like to get 5 random words on their email to study the new ones.

So I'm trying to understand how to send once a day a content of one view of randomly selected nodes to the subscribers?

I will probably need the modules:

1) Views (which already have my random view)
2) Simplenews
2) Rules

I have some difficulties in understanding:

1) How to make a newsletter from a view?

I already looked at the module https://www.drupal.org/project/views_send but it was not something I was looking for.

There had been a module https://www.drupal.org/project/rules_views for this feature I think but it is not supported for 7 version anymore.

2) How to make a schedule for processing this operation once a day?

I tried to make a schedule from ordinary rules but I feel like I lack some modules for it.

Thank you in advance!

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AdamEvertsson’s picture

Hi

One way of doing this, but not at all with the modules you've mentioned, is to make an RSS-feed and then let Mailchimp do an RSS-driven campaign. An RSS-driven campaign takes a snapshot once a week of the RSS-feed and the five nodes at that moment gets imported into the MailChimp newsletter that gets sent out.

// Adam

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