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I am trying to move the <RealName> value from one place in the Mass Mailer to put someplace else in my Newsletter Body.

But, Everytime I try to save the Source, the <RealName> gets deleted from the newsletter.

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<td style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #505050;">Dear <RealName> </span></td>

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should that :p be there ...

Detective08-

While I forgot to delete for this post, It actually does not make any difference... 

Still deletes when you save the html in the Mass Mailer.

Peer

I saw that but that should just output Dear Real Name :p

However, I have not used the newsletter or made any changes to it.  Perhaps the template editor is being confused by that colon.

Geek Girl-

First, I should use proper terminology... not Newsletter but Messages...

When I save <RealName> in the table cell, and save the Message, and then go to re-edit, <RealName> Is deleted, but everything else in the file is preserved.

Peer

Is there a Mass Mailer template somewhere?  I have never used it.   I went to the Mass Mailer on my site and all I could find was the mass mailer editor.  Now if that is where you are talking about, entering <RealName> is going to be seen by TinyMCE as a HTML tag; and one without the closing tag; thus, TinyMCE is going to clean up the code.

Link me to where I need to be looking at my site.

Log onto your site as an Admin

Click on the Wrench to To To The Admin Section

Click Tools

Click Mass Mailer

You will see the html editor come up...

In the Subject Line enter template 1

Switch to HTML mode

Past the contents

Click Save-

Then go back into html mode and see if <RealName> is still the body of the Message.

<----Paste From Below Here -->

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<table style="background-color: #001a33; width: 660px; height: 176px;" spellcheck="false">

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<td style="text-align: center;"><img spellcheck="false" src="http://www.singlebooklovers.com/CoverPhotos/BeautyofBooks/booklovers4r.jpg" alt="Single Book Lovers" width="600" height="161" /></td>

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<table style="text-align: left; background-color: #720000; width: 660px; height: 32px;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">

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<td><big style="color: white;"><big>News You Can Use From The Administrators</big></big></td>

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<td style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #505050;">Dear <RealName></span></td>

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<table style="text-align: left; background-color: white; width: 660px; height: 154px;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">

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<td style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;" spellcheck="false">Put Text Here Trying Real Name in the Gray Area...</td>

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<td style="height: 25px; background-color: #001a33;"> </td>

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<td style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.singlebooklovers.com/terms_of_use.php" target="_blank">Terms</a></td>

<td style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.singlebooklovers.com/faq.php" target="_blank">FAQ</a></td>

<td style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.singlebooklovers.com/contact.php" target="_blank">Contact Us</a></td>

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<td>Copyright 2013 Single Booklovers</td>

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OK, I understand.  TinyMCE is removing <RealName> because it is an invalid HMTL tag.

I am not sure the Mass Mailer would replace <RealName> with the Real Name of the member but if you want to try, you need to add <RealName> in the non-HTML view of the editor, the WYSIWYG mode.  However, it may just send out <RealName> in the text because this is not being parsed by a template that is sent through the template parser.

Emails from the site use a template system, and they go through a template parser that generates the email.  Does the Mass Mailer go through the template parser?  My guess in order to get that to work one would need to turn off the TinyMCE editor and the Mass Mailer needs to be sent through the template parser.

We need some Boonex people to come in on this one.

You can try the following, modify the following code in administration/notifies.php file:

'html' => 2,
'html_toggle' => true,
'attrs' => array('style' => "height:400px;"),

so you will be able to disable tinymce and save text as it is.

I'm not sure about replacing <RealName>, it probably should, you can try and see how it goes.

So, it still seems to strip out <RealName>... However, y'all got me thinking. I went into the database sys_sbs_messages edited the field and added <RealName> then went into Mass Mailer and sent it out .... and now I wait 

Nope... nuttin... Oh well, its not the end of the world... :)

P.

However, this would be a nice feature to add to the mass mailer. It would require a parser for the Mass Mailer and I am assuming that it currently does not have one.