Hi, we would like the option to send a message to a role to be available to a specified role, where the users are not an administrator.  Is this possible? I thought that if you gave them edit rights to the module that would do it, but it doesn't seem to have.

We have a number of college faculty who cannot be made admins of the site, but need to be able to send messages to groups of students (tutor groups, subject groups etc) identified by their role.

I'd really love a solution - otherwise I'm going to have to go back to using the newsletter tool

anyone any ideas?

cheers

Moving to support forum.

I believe it is possible already. There is the feature for Group Subscription. If everyone is subscribed to a group then any post will be emailed to all subscribers.

If you are using DNN 5 you can also install Newsletter on any page and setup permissions just like any module. So anyone will have access to newsletter module without having admin rights. But bas thing is DNN 5.0.1 is still not recommended for production use.

Thanks Tareq,  we are thinking about using the group membership rather than security roles is a way around it.  However the only problem is that anyone is able to leave a group.  We are sending information to students that it vital to their course, so we have to be sure they will get them.

However I'm going to do some testing with this now on our dev site and see if I can make it work for us.

On some of our other course sites we do use the Newsletter module (you can do that with DNN 4 too!), but the problem with this now is that we are trying to get the students to use the AS module as much as possible, and the Newsletter only sends emails to their external email accounts.

cheers
Isabel

If you are going to manually add the users to the group then you can remove the JoinGroup token from the templates. This will prevent users from leaving a group.

cool, I'll try that,  Thanks Will.