HTML Notification

nlarson

is it possible to merge attributes values into an html email template? I first tested using plain text and the values merge in fine, but then I wanted to make it look a bit nicer and I don't seem to be able to get any values to merge, the just show up as '<>'

<table border="0" bgcolor="#808080" width="100%">
  <tr><!-- Row 1 -->
     <td align="center">
	 <table border="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="600px"> <font color="#333333">
	 <tr><!-- Row 1 -->
     <td align="center"><a href="www.versegoal.com"><img src="http://www.versegoal.com/logos/versegoal.png" border="0" /></a></td><!-- Col 1 -->
  </tr>
  <tr><!-- Row 2 -->
     <td><br><br>VerseGoal is a team performance management tool to help you better manage your Goals and To-Do lists.  It is a one stop shop for tracking and reporting on all the work you need to get done.<br><br></td><!-- Col 1 -->
  </tr>
  <tr><!-- Row 3 -->
     <td>
	 <font size="5">URL: app.versegoal.com<br>
	 Username:<<RegularUser.LoginName>><br>
	 Password: <<RegularUser.DefaultPassword>><br></font>
	 </td><!-- Col 1 -->
  </tr>
  <tr><!-- Row 4 -->
     <td><br><br>AFTER LOGIN, PLEASE CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD!  In the 'My Profile' Settings</td><!-- Col 1 -->
  </tr></font>
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	 </td><!-- Col 1 -->
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tford

Where are you putting your HTML? In a Document & referring to the document in the HTMLMessage attribute of the notification?

nlarson

yes, I import the file as a document then select the document in the attribute. The code above is the source.

rocketman

My technique is to have a BO (mine's called StandardText) with a text attribute set to html format (mine's called Content).

I then have a notification that has <<StandardText.Content>> in the message area (no need to set to html format - just leave it as plain vanilla text)

My process does a pick from so I can select which standard text to use, then does the SEND

I tend to use Dreamweaver to design the content for the email and then just paste the code into StandardText.Content records - first clicking the "source code" button in the AwareIM html editor.

I wish I could do it all within AwareIM but their html editor is rubbish. One wonders why they haven't given us FCK by now but hey-ho, that's life. But if you are a subscriber to Adobe Creative Cloud suite - it's probably the best route for designing swish mail shots anyway

Hope this helps

nlarson

Great work around! Going to play with that a bit.

Ya, we put fck into our CRM product. It was pretty straight forward and did the job.

rocketman

Any chance you could PM me with details of how to do that?. ( bot ill understand if you want to keep it proprietary to yourself)

nlarson

ah sorry Rod, I meant a CRM product not build on .net not in Aware.

Rennur

In HTML documents, replace
<< with <<
>> with >>

Cheers

nlarson

Thanks Rennur, that worked.

I really wanted to use Rocketman's method since it makes template management so efficient but after setting it all up and doing some test runs it seems like Aware stuffs in tons of extra line breaks on export even if the field is marked as html and you don't use the editor. If the editor is allowed via attribute presentation options, and you paste in source to the source view it stomps all over the code. Either way, nice modern templates end up cooked, although running the well Laid out code trough a minifier before pasting it into the field did seem to help a lot.

Frustrating: If a field is HTML the app should not modify the code or insert linebreaks, otherwise what is the point?

nlarson

Rocket, do you have any merge fields inside the StandardText. Content whihc is merge into the message field? Sort of a double merge.

I could have sworn I was able to merge values into the body which was stored as an attribute instance and itself merged into the email, but now I don't seem to be able to. Trying to figure out if I am going bonkers or just missing context. I have been working on this for too long... 😃