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michael-r
Maven
12 years ago

Popular Community Topics into Email Templates

Hi everyone,    We are looking to pull in the most popular topics from our community and have these displayed within the daily digest email that we send out.    We have attempted to do this by pu...
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HaidongG
Lithium Alumni (Retired)
12 years ago

Hi Michael,

 

Email template is with velocity, you can't use any freemarker syntax there, neither rest calls. only pre-defined variables listed here can be used inside your email template.

 

 

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michael-r
Maven
12 years ago
Thanks for the reply HaidongG.

I've had a look at the velocity objects and not sure how this can be used to pull in the most active Community topics, presumably this isn't possible?
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    PaoloT
    Lithium Alumni (Retired)
    12 years ago

    Hi michael-r 

     

    it is currently not possible to use REST calls in the e-mail templates (see here). This could be an idea to submit here - I am sure there are quite a few interesting use cases for this.

     

    Thanks,

     

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      michael-r
      Maven
      12 years ago
      Thanks Paolo.
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