609181 - Registration Page/Operations for about:labs newsletter

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Marketing :: Email, task)

Description

[Eve Murto]

Please help us out with the registration setup for the "about labs"
newsletter list. 

Create a registration page (similar to existing) and go live with it (connect to confirmation note I set up). 

Flow names into Responsys  (instead of flowing into Mailchimp). 
Responsys field: ABOUT_LABS_FLG

thank you!  Eve

Comment 1

[Alex Buchanan [:abuchanan]]

There is an about:labs list under Dria's account, but it's not the actual list.  There are only two subscribers, and when I tried signing up for the list, my info didn't show up in that list.  I don't see anything in Mary's account either.

There must be another Mailchimp account that I'm missing.  Eve, do you know?

Comment 2

[Alex Buchanan [:abuchanan]]

The reg. form for this is currently located in the WP footer on mozillalabs.com,

http://svn.mozilla.org/projects/labs.mozilla.com/trunk/blog/wp-content/themes/labs2.0/footer.php

Comment 3

[Pascal Finette [:pfinette]]

Alex - will send you login details via email.

Comment 4

[Alex Buchanan [:abuchanan]]

The existing form is in the footer here, http://mozillalabs.com/

Pascal, are you aware of any other registration forms, or links to registration forms?


Les, seems like another iframe, like about:hacks, could work best for this?

Comment 5

[Pascal Finette [:pfinette]]

No - as far as I know we only have the form implemented on the Labs HP.

Comment 6

[Les Orchard [:lorchard]]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Alex - will send you login details via email.

Can you send me the login details, since I'll probably be hacking on this?

(In reply to comment #4)
> Les, seems like another iframe, like about:hacks, could work best for this?

Not sure an iframe will quite work here, given the background in the footer there and that iframes aren't transparent. I might try something using AJAX, and have a fallback form that doesn't necessarily follow the page design

Comment 7

[Les Orchard [:lorchard]]

Hmm, actually, it looks like allowtransparency in iframes might be supported by enough browsers to make an iframe solution viable. I'll take a hack at it

Comment 8

[Les Orchard [:lorchard]]

r76889, took an initial stab at the form intended for an iframe:

    http://www-trunk.stage.mozilla.com/en-US/newsletter/about_labs/

The bad part here is that viewing this form directly will show it on the default white browser background, whereas the iframe will be transparent over a dark background. You should be able to see the basic functionality, though.

FWIW, I used Firebug to test this out. I loaded up http://mozillalabs.com/, inspected element on the current newsletter form, then clicked Edit to replace the <form> element with this <iframe>:

  <iframe frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allowtransparency="true" style="width: 100%; height: 145px" src="http://www-trunk.stage.mozilla.com/en-US/newsletter/about_labs/"></iframe>

One more thing: I think another schema change is needed in Responsys to account for the ABOUT_LABS_FLG and ABOUT_LABS_DATE fields, at least in the test list. I don't have permission to do that

Comment 9

[Eve Murto]

These fields already exist in Responsys, I don't know if that was the question... 

ABOUT_LABS_FLG
ABOUT_LABS_DATE

cheers, Eve

Comment 10

[Les Orchard [:lorchard]]

(In reply to comment #9)
> These fields already exist in Responsys, I don't know if that was the
> question... 
> 
> ABOUT_LABS_FLG
> ABOUT_LABS_DATE

That was the question - but the problem is that they exist in the CONTACTS_LIST schema, and not TEST_CONTACTS_LIST

Comment 11

[Eve Murto]

Alex, we can ask about this at our 2pm weekly integration checkin mtg with Responsys this afternoon.   -Eve

Comment 12

[Alex Buchanan [:abuchanan]]

(In reply to comment #10)
> (In reply to comment #9)
> > These fields already exist in Responsys, I don't know if that was the
> > question... 
> > 
> > ABOUT_LABS_FLG
> > ABOUT_LABS_DATE
> 
> That was the question - but the problem is that they exist in the CONTACTS_LIST
> schema, and not TEST_CONTACTS_LIST

I added these to the test list

Comment 13

[Les Orchard [:lorchard]]

So, I unless there are more changes needed, I think this is done except for getting pushed to mozilla.com prod (which I can't do).

Once that's done, we can replace the existing widget in the labs.mozilla.org WordPress site.

Comment 14

[raymond [:retornam] (inactive)]

qa-verified-trunk http://www-trunk.stage.mozilla.com/en-US/newsletter/about_labs/

Comment 15

[Les Orchard [:lorchard]]

Committed r77415 to update the form in the Labs wordpress theme, and filed bug 611743 to get the blog theme updated.

Comment 16

[Les Orchard [:lorchard]]

Make that bug 611740