E-mail templates define the structure and content of marketing e-mails that you send to customers using an e-mail or dialog activity.
E-mail templates can
contain placeholders for content, such as e-Marketing Spots, links, unique
promotion codes, and the customer's first and last name. When it is time to
deliver the e-mail, the server replaces the placeholders with actual
content.
To know
more about how to work with e-mail templates , visit the http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/wchelp/v7r0m0/topic/com.ibm.commerce.management-center.doc/concepts/csbeatover.htm
While
using the email templates , we may be faced with providing custom placeholders
, as per the client requirements.
Below are
the steps to do so. For demonstration purposes , we would be introducing the
customer's phone number as a custom placeholder attribute.
1.
Customize the Management Center Open-laszlo files to include the new custom tag
for your new custom attribute.
File
/LOBTools/WebContent/WEB-INF/src/lzx/commerce/marketing/restricted/widgets/EmailTemplateRichTextEditor.lzx
Step 1:
Modify the open lazlo file to introduce "Customer Phone Number"
in the selection dropdown.
1. Locate
the text "<mktTextlistitem value="lastName"
displayName="${mktMarketingResources['lastName'].string}"/>"
2. Add the
below text in the next line
<mktTextlistitem
value="phoneNumber" displayName="Customer Phone
Number"/>
The
completed code will look as follows :
Step 2:
Modify the on-click handler to insert the custom tag
<e-mail:PhoneNumber /> in the editor when the user selects "Customer
Phone Number" and clicks on "Insert"
1. Locate
the text "<handler name="onclick">"
2. Add the
below text in the function implementation
else if(selected ==
"phoneNumber") {
classroot.insertTextAtSelection("<e-mail:PhoneNumber />");
}
classroot.insertTextAtSelection("<e-mail:PhoneNumber />");
}
The
completed code will look as follows :
Step 3: Build
the Open Lazlo project - LOBTools
Right
Click "LOBTools" project and click on "Build OpenLaszlo
Project" as show in the figure below. Restart server.
This
concludes the Management Center customizations.
2.
Introduce a Tag implementation class
1. Create
a tag implementation class which would contain the logic to replace the
placeholder tag <e-mail:PhoneNumber /> with actual content.
This class
should implement the
"com.ibm.commerce.emarketing.emailtemplate.tag.Tag" interface. Follow
the link to
understand the interface methods which need to be implemented.
For the
pupose of this tutorial , let the fully qualified name of this class be :
'com.wcshub.commerce.emarketing.emailtemplate.tag.TagPhoneNumber'
2. Make an
database entry in the table TAGCLASS.
To more
about this table , follow the Infocenter link.
The sample query is provided below:
insert into
tagclass values ('PhoneNumber',
'com.wcshub.commerce.emarketing.emailtemplate.tag.TagPhoneNumber' ,
'Implementation class for Phone Number Tag' , NULL );
The
tutorial is now complete. Test the customizations.
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