Sorry I'm late to responding to this. It's definitely a bug. My recommendation would be to check if they are subscribed and then set the variable based on that result.
If you're still having trouble getting it to work, please open a ticket with details and we'll see if we can figure out a good solution. -Chris On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 7:39 AM, Howery <[email protected]> wrote: > After trying to track this down some more I have found out why it is > unsubscribing from the newsletter, but not so much of how to stop it. > > In the newsletter listener, the "contact_form_listener" has the > following if statement: > > if 'newsletter' not in formdata: > subscribed = False > else: > subscribed = formdata['newsletter'] > > There is not any newsletter in the form data from the first step of > checkout where you verify addresses and such. So the listener is > automatically setting the subscribed = False. > > Would it be better to add the newsletter to the form data as a hidden > field in the checkout process?? or to rewrite the listener to check if > the email is already subscribed? perhaps with the > newsletter.email_is_subscribed(cls, email) from the newsletter model? > and then pass the results of that test? I have tried to do this, but > couldn't get it to work. I am still trying to figure out how signals > work in general. > > Thanks for any help. > > On Aug 28, 12:50 pm, Howery <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've setup Satchmo to use Mailman for the newsletter. and it is > > working fine. when the user updates their profile it will subscribe or > > unsubscribe them correctly. > > However I have found that when a user that checks out a shopping cart > > it unsubscribes them from the newsletter. It happens when they confirm > > their information before going to the select shipping step. > > > > Satchmo.log shows this: > > > > Sat, 28 Aug 2010 10:23:48 satchmo_store.contact.forms INFO Sending > > form_init signal: <class 'payment.forms.PaymentContactInfoForm'> > > Sat, 28 Aug 2010 10:23:49 satchmo_store.contact.forms DEBUG Saving > > contact info for David Howery > > Sat, 28 Aug 2010 10:23:49 newsletter.listeners DEBUG Updating > > newletter subscription for David Howery to False > > Sat, 28 Aug 2010 10:23:49 newsletter DEBUG Updating subscription > > status from True to False for David Howery > > > > I am at a loss on how to stop it from triggering the newsletter status > > change. Any suggestions? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Satchmo users" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<satchmo-users%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Satchmo users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users?hl=en.
