Dynamic Newsletter - content personalization

I'm afraid Kentico generates newsletter in context of public user. You may try to use macro to alter your layout. OnlineMarketingContext contains Contact object, however, I'm not sure this works for you. If it is not - try implementation of the custom macro.

Thanks a lot Roman. I tried using both "Contact.IsFromCountry" and "OnlineMarketingContext.CurrentContact.IsFromCountry" methods. They work on the page that acts as the dynamic template for the email newsletter, but, as you said, it seems that Kentico generates the email once as public user, and sends the same content to all subscribers.

Having said that, you can insert mini macro statements like {%FirstName|(resolver)subscriber%} and this actually works. Even though a newsletter is based on a dynamic template, these macros are replaced properly for each subscriber.

But we want from Kentico is to generate each individual newsletter email with the context of each subscriber, so, US people US-specific content, and, UK people UK-specific content.

Do you think this can be achieved with custom macros?

Thanks Oz

I can't tell you this is definitely possible, I'm just trying to provide you with an idea of what might work. Custom macro might work. You might also consider conditional layouts. But it might be easier to create separate pages for different countries and just split subscribers to appropriate groups.

You can create custom macros and use the subscriber resolver to get information specific to that user. But if subscribers are not registered for the site, you may have issues accessing data for them.

If they are all users on your site, then you can create a custom macro and pass in the userid to get content for that user.

Hi both Zachary and Roman, I thought I'd try creating a custom macro and pass in the method for the current subscriber.

On the content page something a bit like: {% MyCustomMacro(subscriber) %}

I've also tried with no luck: {% MyCustomMacro((resolver)subscriber) %} {% MyCustomMacro(SubscriberID|(resolver)subscriber) %} {% subscriber.MyCustomMacro() |(identity)GlobalAdministrator%}

The parameter that is passed to my macro function though is always null. Any ideas what I do need to pass in?

Many thanks,

John

Hi John,

To pass subscriber details to your custom macro, you need to write it like this:

{% MyCustomMacro(SubscriberID)|(resolver)subscriber %}

The |(resolver)subscriber part needs to be always kept at the end of the macro expression.