Using custom fields in emails

[jrnetwork]

I have set up some custom fields for my clients, and would like to use some of them in my email templates.

 

I looked in my php database, and looked at two fields I want to use, so I used the same convention as the normal whm ones, i.e.

 

Username: [JRNS Domains Username]

Password: [JRNS Domains Password]

 

But this does not work?

 

Is this possible, and if so how should it be done?

 

ta.

[Adam]

Hey,

 

Click on Merge Fields down at the bottom of the email.

 

From,

Adam

[jrnetwork]

Yes I have done that and used a few fields in some of my other emails.

 

But I can not seem to get the custom fields.. the ones that I have created... to insert into the emails.

 

In the database I can see that the database field names do not have spaces in them, but when you look at a customer profile at the front end they do.

 

When I look in the database at the custom fields I have created, they have spaces in them.

 

Maybe this is why they are not working. But if I was to make them so they did not have spaces in them, then they would look silly on the customers' profiles.

 

Hopefully this makes sense now.

[Adam]

Yes I have done that and used a few fields in some of my other emails.

 

But I can not seem to get the custom fields.. the ones that I have created... to insert into the emails.

 

You did read the merge text in full

 

The correct format is

 

[ProductCustom-FieldName]

 

or

 

[Custom-FieldName]

 

You have to leave the Custom and the - in their.

 

If you had a filed named MyUsername it would like,

 

[Custom-MyUsername]

 

Also, make sure that the [ are [ and not some other &nsbq which is caused by the WYSIWYG.

 

From,

Adam

[jrnetwork]

Yeah but what if I have all of my custom fields done normally.. with spaces...

 

i.e. i have some like this:

 

JRNS Domains Password

 

how would I do that with the [] around it to make it work?

[Adam]

Yeah but what if I have all of my custom fields done normally.. with spaces...

 

i.e. i have some like this:

 

JRNS Domains Password

 

how would I do that with the [] around it to make it work?

 

You will need to put

 

[Custom-JRNS Domains Password]

 

As a coder, I never like spaces. In fact I some what hate them in coding, because they cause errors or add their own %2 as a space. You should try using - or _ instead of a space. However I think the one above should work.

 

From,

Adam

[Matt]

Spaces will not cause any problems in the custom field name.