Simplenews Status Reset

Simplenews Status Reset is a tiny module, that allows to reset the sent status of an already sent Simplenews newsletter issue to "not sent". This allows to resend a newsletter (e.g. to a different category) without duplicating the node or changing the status value by hand in the database.

Motivation

Simplenews is a great tool to setup a newsletter on your website - it's probably the best open-source newsletter software. You can even have different categories, where every category has its own subscriber list. It suits perfectly for the normal needs of a website newsletter. However, we experienced that some customers would rather like to use it as an e-mail marketing software rather than a plain newsletter system because they cannot or are not willing to pay for a dedicated e-mail marketing software. The customers often have thousands of e-mail addresses segmented to different lists (by region, branch, etc).

Each list may be shaped into its own newsletter category, but the customers than often want to setup a newsletter issue, and send it e.g. to list A, B and E, the next issue to B, C and D,... Simplenews isn't designed for this kind of use: after a newsletter issue has been sent out, it is locked and cannot be sent another time. You could now either clone the node and send it to a different category, or you can do database manipulation by hand - but both you and your customer would not want, that it's up to you to change the status every time they want to resend an newsletter.

This is the point, where this tiny module jumps in: it adds a button to the "newsletter" tab on already sent Simplenews nodes to reset its status. That's it!

Dependencies

• Simplenews

Further development / D8 version

The D7 version can be considered as "final". As the scope of this tiny module is very clear, it's unlikely that any additional features will be added. However, if you have any wishes, proposals, etc feel free to open an issue. If it makes sense and fits to this module, enhancements are always welcome.

A D8 version will be published at the earliest, when the D8 version of the underlying Simplenews module is more stable (at least in a beta state) and we can see, what kind of changes and improvements will be present.

Read more about possible integration of this project into Simplenews here: https://www.drupal.org/node/2426077#comment-10173060