Overview
You may wish to display a contact's Additional Field value from InterAction within a Vuture email or landing page. For example, you could include their dietary preferences or the sessions they chose on the RSVP Form within their confirmation email.
This can be done by inserting the following merge code into the email or page:
{IA:0123456789} where '0123456789' is the 10-digit Additional Field ID
The IA field ID numbers in '{IA: }' are found in the Admin area of the Web client.
For step by step instructions on how to display a contact's Additional Field value into a confirmation email, please click here.
This functionality now supports using additional field merge codes in links, so you could include a contact specific code in a link to your website to provide personalised content or tracking.
Note: If the field does not populate when testing, ensure the formatting is plain text for the {IA:FieldId} code. Sometimes copying/pasting will insert other formatting characters, which can be fixed by erasing and then typing in manually or using 'paste as plain text'.
Prerequisite:
Vuture will need to enable the following system configuration for this feature to work :
"Admin.System.InterAction{InterActionId}.Replacement on IA custom fields"
If you require this feature enabled or need any assistance please contact Vuture Support.
Finding Additional Field IDs
You can get Additional Field IDs from the InterAction web client by logging in to the web client as IAADMIN or asking for help from another user that has access to the Admin tab, clicking on Admin and then Additional Fields. This displays a report containing the Additional Field IDs for each folder.
Alternatively, there are other methods for establishing the additional field IDs, described in this article here.
Adding default values for personalisation fields
It is possible to format the values of an additional field placeholder in an email. The following options are available:
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Formatting option
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Expected output
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| capitalise:'uppercase' | Fully capitalised |
| capitalise:'lowercase' | Fully lowercase |
| capitalise:'words' | Sentence case |
| default:'value' | If no value, the default should be written |
To use this functionality, you must add the “formatting option” inside your placeholder when you are editing the text of the email. As seen in the example below:
Dear {Goes By | default: 'Colleague' },
Which would say Dear Colleague, if the Goes By field in IA didn't have a value.
Please note this works for InterAction only. Vuture will need to enable the following system configuration for this feature to work : "Admin.System.InterAction.Replacement on IA custom fields"
