Customizable sign up emails!
April 9, 2010Pagebloom now lets you customize the content of the emails that are sent to new users who sign up to pagebloom to interact with your website.
The email is customized in the Organization > Organization Details > General Details form.
You specify the content in the appropriate field and can preview at any time by clicking the preview button. The content will be generated to the screen using 'you' as the sample recipient.
pagebloom allows you to use variables in your emails. Variables are special 'words' that will be substituted by values taken from objects in the system.
You specify variables using the following syntax:
${object.property}
The available objects in this instance are 'person' and 'org' where person is the newly signed up person and org is your organization.
The range of possible objects and their properties are listed:
Object | Property | VariableNote: variables are case sensitive |
| person | firstName | ${person.firstName} |
| lastName | ${person.lastName} | |
| electronicAddress.email | ${person.electronicAddress.email} | |
| org | name | ${org.name} |
| electronicAddress.email | ${org.electronicAddress.email} | |
| electronicAddress.websiteUrl | ${org.electronicAddress.websiteUrl} |
So, for example, to create email content of the form:
Dear Jo Blo, Welcome to the ABC website. To get to our website in the future simply go to: http://www.abc.com
Set your new user sign up email text to:
Dear ${person.firstName} ${person.lastName},
Welcome to the ${org.name} website.
To get to our website in the future simply go to:
http://${org.electronicAddress.websiteUrl}
The default sign up email text has some very useful information for new users but you can customize this as you please.
There is a suffix that will always appear after your customized email content giving new users information about the pagebloom community.