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Myko_P
Expert
7 years ago

Email template issue caused by component.content.studio-title (content)

TMLHi Lithium Developers, I am customizing community Email template “You have received a private message” in Studio -> Text Editor -> Email text. After I pasted my customized HTML code in the “HTML...
  • luk's avatar
    luk
    7 years ago

    First thing that pops into my eyes is

    <a href="${emailUrls.getTapestryUrl("

    not looking right this one =)...just search that in your template, around line 200 it was I believe...should probably be more something like this:

    <a href="${emailUrls.getTapestryUrl()}"

    but I would have to look it up in the docs, trying to avoid dealing with email templates as much as possible =)...just looking at all that inline CSS and tables hurts my feelings!

Myko_P's avatar
Myko_P
Expert

Thanks luk ,

You can take a look at my code if you want - https://glitch.com/edit/#!/join/bc431a18-c790-4eee-ba16-6191d76983cc 

 I can't believe you guys are debugging email templates like this...Is there some Velocity engine template linter/debugger/validator?

Can't stop wondering why Lithium platform in 2018 is still using those dinosaurs from Apache foundation...

luk's avatar
luk
Boss
7 years ago

First thing that pops into my eyes is

<a href="${emailUrls.getTapestryUrl("

not looking right this one =)...just search that in your template, around line 200 it was I believe...should probably be more something like this:

<a href="${emailUrls.getTapestryUrl()}"

but I would have to look it up in the docs, trying to avoid dealing with email templates as much as possible =)...just looking at all that inline CSS and tables hurts my feelings!

  • Myko_P's avatar
    Myko_P
    Expert
    7 years ago

    Thank you, luk ! :smileyhappy:

    I am using Sass version of Foundation for emails to avoid dealing with most of that inlining and table markup stuff you mentioned. So when I wrote: "I double checked the context objects in my code ..." I mean double checking of the source code in my Foundation for Emails project source HTML file. But "npm run build" i.e. parsing/inlining made a difference :robotlol: 

    I am not 100% sure yet but it looks like Foundation for emails compiler can't parse/inline the right way double quotes inside double quotes i.e. email context objects inside HTML links.

    In my case this one shall not pass parse/inline:

    href="${emailUrls.getTapestryUrl("/user/myprofilepage/tab/user-preferences%3Aprivate-messenger")}"

     This one parsed/inlined fine:

    href="${emailUrls.getTapestryUrl('/user/myprofilepage/tab/user-preferences%3Aprivate-messenger')}"

    The question is would HTML links containing the email context objects work properly if URL-address is inside the single quotes? Or I should manually change it to double quotes after my code is compiled/minified/inlined?

    Thank you!

     

     

     

     

    • luk's avatar
      luk
      Boss
      7 years ago

      Myko_P Probably best to try it out with single quotes, FreeMarker can usually handle that, but not sure about Velocity, my guess would be it's fine, but you never know 8), remember, dinosaur!

      • Myko_P's avatar
        Myko_P
        Expert
        7 years ago

        Thank you luk !

        Freemarker and Velocity engine in 2018?