Email Template for Product Promotions

[Pat_king]

How to create email template for promotional Products .Is that possible to create custom email templates using Nvelocity for product listing...........


Check the attachment image for example....................



Regards,
Pat

[mazhar]

Yes its possible. Please have a look at following thread
viewtopic.php?f=42&t=8571
It will explain how you can set NVelocity parameters for Email templates and how to send Emails manually. All you need is to create an Email template, adjust template layout and product dispaly using your custom NVelocity parameter for example for all those promoted products you can send some $promotedproducts parameter having all those products.

[mazhar]

Here is the template file which could be used for this sort Email list operations. Unzip it and place it under Website/App_Data/EmailTempaltes/1/ folder. Then go to Administration > Configure > Email > Templates and create a new Email Template and assign it newly placed file for message body.

This Email template is general purpose I just put the logic how to render the products. Currently it will render complete store products, because I don't know how you are handling your promotions. You can update template code to output only those products that meet your promotion criteria.

[Pat_king]

Thanks Mazhar this is really helpful for me to develop further..... this is what i m looking for .....
Now i m working in Nvelocity to list promotional products ........

Thanks once again



Best Regards,
Pat

[Pat_king]

Hi mazhar , i m sending a Nvelocity parameter to render products with special offers and generating list ,it works fine. But if i m sending it from the email list option(in admin side) will it work.


Regards,
Pat

[mazhar]

Hi mazhar , i m sending a Nvelocity parameter to render products with special offers and generating list ,it works fine. But if i m sending it from the email list option(in admin side) will it work.


Regards,
Pat

For this you need to make a change to marketing pages in admin side. In fact you need to put your custom NVelocity variable in Email template. For this edit

Code: Select all

Admin/Marketing/Email/Preview.aspx.cs

and then locate following method in it

Code: Select all

protected void PreviewButton_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
    {
        //GENERATE MESSAGE
        EmailTemplate listTemplate = GetTemplate();
        listTemplate.Parameters["store"] = Token.Instance.Store;
        if (_EmailList.Users.Count > 0)
        {            
            listTemplate.Parameters["customer"] = UserDataSource.LoadMostRecentForEmail(_EmailList.Users[0].Email);
        }
        listTemplate.Parameters["list"] = _EmailList;
       
        //Here will be your code to find out products you want to send in promotion Email and finally add them as NVelocity parameter
        listTemplate.Parameters["promotionproducts"] = Token.Instance.Store.Products;
       
 listTemplate.ToAddress = _EmailList.Users[0].Email;
        System.Net.Mail.MailMessage[] messages;
        try
        {
            messages = listTemplate.GenerateMailMessages();
        }
        catch(Exception ex)
        {
            EmailTemplateErrorLabel.Text = String.Format(EmailTemplateErrorLabel.Text,listTemplate.Name, ex.Message);
            EmailTemplateErrorLabel.Visible = true;
            return;
        }

        System.Net.Mail.MailMessage message = messages[0];
        PreviewFromAddress.Text = message.From.ToString();
        //PreviewToAddress.Text = ToAddress.Text + " (" + message.To + ")";
        PreviewToAddress.Text = ToAddress.Text;
        PreviewSubject.Text = message.Subject;
        PreviewMessage.Text = message.Body;
        if (message.IsBodyHtml)
        {
            PreviewMessage.Text = message.Body;
        }
        else
        {
            PreviewMessage.Text = "<PRE>" + Server.HtmlEncode(message.Body) + "</PRE>";
        }
        //SWAP THE PANELS
        CustomizePanel.Visible = false;
        PreviewPanel.Visible = true;
    }

See the

Code: Select all

        //Here will be your code to find out products you want to send in promotion Email and finally add them as NVelocity parameter
        listTemplate.Parameters["promotionproducts"] = Token.Instance.Store.Products;

Here you will find out your products and then put them in Email template parameters and finally update your Email template to use this new NVelocity parameter.

[Pat_king]

Hi mazhar, I assigned the parameter in the preview file, on clicking the preview button it shows the promotional products .But it is not getting displayed in the email. I m unable to figure out the problem.

Regards ,
Pat

[mazhar]

May be you have disabled image display in your Email account.

[Pat_king]

No i enabled image display, loop to render products is not working mazhar.........

[mazhar]

Make sure that your NVelocity code is good and is working. Also could you provide your custom code where you are passing Nvelocity parameter to Email template. May be its not working when it comes to Email list.

[Pat_king]

Hi mazhar, problem with parameter name.i got that right, now its working, thanks once again for your help...cheers


Best Regards,
Pat

[mazhar]

Sounds good