Automate workflow: receive email feed then publish as news item

[LiveFreeAndRoam]

Hi,

Each week, news is sent from an external email account to a wide distribution.  Each week, I manually copy that email into the BC News module and publish it on the webiste.  I also manually update the "Subject" and "Expiry" fields.

Is there a some way to automate this?  I was hoping there might be a Web App that would act as an email recipient.  Upon receiving the email, the webapp would:

1. Duplicate subject field from email to subject field in news item
2. Duplicate content from email to content in news item
3. Set the expiry date to be recived-date + 2 weeks (or some arbitrary value)
4. Publish the news item
5. Send a confirmation mail to the administrator, indicating a news item has been automatically published

I'm not concerned about securing the email feed from spammers.

Thanks,

Matt.

[Liam Dilley]

Hi Matt, You can not autmate that currently.

[LiveFreeAndRoam]

Thanks Liam.

As a follow up, does BC expose an API for the News module? Perhaps I can write my on WebApp for this?

Matt.

[Liam Dilley]

There is no Api for web apps at this stage.

[LiveFreeAndRoam]

Is there a way to submit requests to Adobe BC developers?  Functionality to automate these labor-intensive tasks would provide tremendous value.

Matt.