Help :: Custom Templates
Email Notification Message Tags
When Eyejot sends out an email notification to one of your recipients it includes a small picture of you,
a single [key] frame from the video you sent them, along with some other message-related and sender-identifying
information. When you create your own template for email notifications you can include one or more of
the following template tags to place important information in your message.
Please note that, at this time, all notification messages are sent as HTML messages. It's important that you strive to produce HTML that creates a visually appealing experience for your recipients. Additionally, it's imperative that your templates adhere to the terms of Eyejot's service as well as those explicitly stated below. Eyejot reserves the right to alter or remove templates that it finds fail to abide by our terms.
To see a complete list of tags suitable for email messages click here.
Message View Page Tags
After someone receives an email notification message they typically click on a link that
takes them to a message viewing page. This page can be customized using templates and special
tags that do things such as display the subject and body, display and prepare the Flash
movie player for the video, etc.
To see a complete list of tags suitable for message view pages click here.
User Page Tags
Every Eyejot user has their own, unique, page where contact and profile information can be displayed as well
as a profile video that can play using the Eyejot video widget. You can control the look and feel of this
page by creating your own template and using one or more of the special tags (below) to present information
in the order and format you desire.
To see a complete list of tags suitable for user pages click here.
Terms
Usage of the custom template functionality requires adherence to the following terms, in addition to the
site's terms of service:
- The Powered By Eyejot icon that is automatically appended to your templates must appear on the message view and user pages and your custom HTML content or coding can't be used to obscure or otherwise hide this icon from view.
- The delivered by wording that appears at the bottom of emails can't be hidden or obscured or otherwise hidden from view.
These terms are subject to change.
Simple, Condition Logic
If you want to have more control over your templates you can use simple, conditional logic statements.
They can perform specific actions based upon comparing template values.
For example, if you wanted to display a title that read About Me only if you actually had entered some text in your About Me profile area you could do something like this:
%%if user.about_me != "" then print "<strong>About Me</strong>"%%
It's a simple if-then logic statement. It works by comparing the value in the variable
%%$user.about_me%% with a blank entry (denoted by ""). It says, specifically, that
if the value of that tag is not blank then print out some HTML that
displays a bold header.
