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ttadej
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9 years ago
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Issues using .split() and .get(index) in Velocity email templates

We're add UTM tags to links in our email templates and need to split the post URL into 2 parts so it can be rendered as follows: Example: ${urlPath}?utm_tags#${urlHash} I've been unable to successf...
  • DougS's avatar
    DougS
    9 years ago

    I believe you should be able to do something like this:

    #set ($splitPath = urlPath.split(","))
#foreach ($path in $splitPath)
  ${path}
#end

     -Doug

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ttadej
Advisor
9 years ago

Thanks DougS

 

We ended up doing this, which seems excessive but worked:

        #set ($postUrl = $notification.message.webUi.url)
        #if ($postUrl.contains('#'))
          #set ($splitPostUrl = $postUrl.split('#'))
          #foreach ($part in $splitPostUrl)
            #if ($velocityCount == 1)
              #set ($urlPath = $part)
            #elseif($velocityCount == 2)
              #set ($urlHash = $part)
            #end
          #end

          <a href="$!{urlPath}?${utmTag}#$!{urlHash}">
        #else
          <a href="${postUrl}?${utmTag}">
        #end

This isn't much documentation here: https://velocity.apache.org/engine/1.5/user-guide.html#loops

Unfortunately $arr.get(index) does not seem to work even though Lithium is using Velocity v1.5

Inactive User's avatar
Inactive User
5 years ago

ttadej Does your code work? I have tried it in one of our emails and it isn't working as I would expect. Did you change anything in it?