[support] simplenews: add multiple lists of nodes to a newsletter

[andy baxter]

Hi,

I've just been working through the example here:

http://drupal.org/comment/reply/1492498

Which describes how to add site content to a simplenews newsletter using 
entity reference, views bulk operations, and rules.

The problem I'm having is that this recipe only works for a single list 
of nodes - I want to have two lists, with recent 'News Stories' shown 
first, then  upcoming 'events'.

I'm thinking of doing it by chaining rules together, with the first rule 
running when the newsletter is first saved. This would then pass the 
newsletter nid to a view, which would generate a table of news stories, 
and invoke another rule to add the stories to the newsletter. This would 
finish with a page redirect to the events view, which would invoke a 
final rule to add the events, and redirect back to the newsletter.

The problem I'm having is with how to pass the newsletter nid through 
the different stages of the process. I was hoping there was an easy way 
to pass the newsletter nid as an argument to a view, then use this as a 
table field in the output (which would be the same for all rows). I 
think this would solve the problem, but I can't figure out how to do it.

I'm using drupal 7 and views 3.

Thanks,

andy baxter