[SOLVED] Substitutions in the language strings

Hi,

I'm trying to include the name and/or the username of the receiving user in the email that is being sent when the Send Email link is used from the profile. Is this possible?

The language string is _UE_SENDEMAILNOTICE

I've tried [FIELD_NAME] , [cb:userdata field="FIELD_NAME" /] , [cb:userfield field="FIELD_NAME" /] without success.

This would be very useful as it will make the email much more original, e.g.:

"Mysite sent this message to Name Surname (username).
Your registered name is included to show this message originated from Mysite."


Could you suggest a solution please?

Thank you

You can't add substitutions to the notice. It's used in way too many locations for that to be supported. As for the email subject and body that won't be added either as that's user supplied information, which could easily be abused if they knew how to use substitutions. The from name and address will be the users own though so that seams personalized enough.

Hi Kyle,

with all due respect, I think I have to contradict here.

It doesn't matter to me in how many locations you've used that string.

Let me say why I think you are not right:

First of all it's not just a notice it's an official email sent from one user to another user through our site and it could be very easily mistaken as an unwanted letter.

Then, in the subject or in the message the sender can write anything he, she or "it" wants.

The main problem is that it's not completely evident to the receiver that the email came from our site.

Here is what are the original strings, I've removed a few of the "-" to be clearer:

DEFINE('_UE_SENDEMAILNOTICE',"-- This is a message from %s at %s ( %s ) to you: --\r\n\r\n");
DEFINE('_UE_SENDEMAILNOTICE_REPLYTO',"\r\n\r\nWhen replying, please check carefully that the email address of %s is %s.");
DEFINE('_UE_SENDEMAILNOTICE_DISCLAIMER',"\r\n\r\n-- NOTES: --\r\n\r\nThis user did not see your email address. If you reply the recipient will have your email address.\r\n\r\n%s owners cannot accept any responsibility for the contents of the email and of user email addresses.");
DEFINE('_UE_SENDEMAILNOTICE_MESSAGEHEADER',"\r\n\r\n\r\n-- Message from %s to you: --\r\n\r\n");

Here is what I've manage to make:

DEFINE('_UE_SENDEMAILNOTICE',"Dear Example Site Member,\r\n\r\n\"%s\" has sent this email to you through the %s ( %s ) mailing system.\r\n\r\nHere is the message that was sent to you:\r\n\r\n--\r\n\r\n");
DEFINE('_UE_SENDEMAILNOTICE_REPLYTO',"\r\n\r\nWhen replying, please check carefully that the email address of %s is %s.");
DEFINE('_UE_SENDEMAILNOTICE_DISCLAIMER',"\r\n\r\n--\r\n\r\n\r\nNOTES:\r\n\r\nExample Site takes no liability for the sending of this email or its content.\r\n\r\nThe sender did not see your email address but if you reply the recipient will have your email address.\r\n\r\nYou can report this message as unsolicited (spam/spoof) email by forwarding it to: spam.reports@ExampleSite.com");
DEFINE('_UE_SENDEMAILNOTICE_MESSAGEHEADER',"\r\n\r\n\r\nMessage from %s to you:\r\n\r\n");

In this case the receiver gets an email with whatever Subject, with whatever Message, and with WHATEVER FROM NAME e.g. John Grisham @ ExampleSite.com [exampleemail@yahoo.com]

I think this is not efficient to make our emails stand out. I think we have to include the name, the username or both in the email that the receiver gets.

Please consider it and inform me if you make progress on this.

Thank you
Best regards
Ricco

I think I'll be able to split the footer into 2 separate footers. 1 with substitutions and 1 without then have it use either/or depending on if a user object is available or not. The API can send from "system", which is why the footer is generic as there isn't always a user object available.

Super. Thank you.

Ok, improved notification API functionality. Footers and other non-user supplied information supports substitutions completely now. User supplied content (subject and message) require a parameter to be enabled at the usage. This should solve your issues as you'll be able to put [name] for example in the footer now.