Help :: Custom Templates Tags for Email
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.
| %%$recipient.first%% | This is the first name of your recipient. If you wanted to start off
your message with a saluation, you could use this tag. Please note, however,
that this value is set by the recipient. So, if they set their first name
to be something non-standard, that's how it will be displayed (to them). If you
wanted to create a saluation you could use something similar to:
Dear %%$recipient.first%%,
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| %%$recipient.last%% | This is the last name of your recipient. |
| %%$recipient.user%% | The is the Eyejot user name for your recipient. It's typically not required or used in notification email templates. |
| %%$recipient.guid%% | This is the unique Eyejot ID for the user. Like the user name (above), this is typically not used within notification email templates except as part of URLs which are provided for through other template tags. |
| %%$sender.guid%% | This is your unique identifying code within the Eyejot system. This is sometimes used in links to identify you (such as in affiliate and join links). It's unlikely you'll ever need to use it by itself. |
| %%$sender.first%% | This is your first name. |
| %%$sender.last%% | This is your last name. |
| %%$sender.name%% | This is a convenient tag that combines your first and last name, in case you didn't want to use separate tags. |
| %%$sender.email%% | This is your email address. The recipient of your message will already see
this in their inbox, but you can use this to accent your message with
additional mailto: links or to simply display a more complete signature. Example:
Many thanks, %%$sender.first%% %%$sender.last%% (%%$sender.email%%)
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| %%$sender.profile_image_url%% | This is a link to your profile image. It is almost always used within an <IMG> tag.
Here's an example setting the width of the image to 150 pixels with a 1 pixel solid, black
border and an alt-tag that displays your first name:
<img align="middle" style="width:150px; border:1px
solid #000000; margin:0 18px 0 18px; src="%%$sender.profile_image_url%%" alt="%%$sender.first%%"> |
| %%$sender.user%% | This is your user name. If you wanted your user name to appear
insider your greeting you could use this tag. Sometimes people will use
it inside of parenthesis near their name and email address. Here's
and example:
Many thanks, %%$sender.first%% %%$sender.last%% (%%$sender.user%%)
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| %%$message.viewerlink%% | This is, perhaps, the most important link for email notification templates as
it's used to take the reader to the message viewing page where they will see
and hear your Eyejot play. Very often this is used in two places: a single link labeled
something like click here to view and also as part of the the key frame
still image taken from the video. Example:
Click <a href="%%$message.viewerlink%%">here</a> to view Eyejot
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| %%$message.preview_image_url%% | One of the best ways to get someone interested enough to click on and view your
Eyejot video message is to show them a portion of that message in the form of
a still image taken from a single frame of your video. We automatically wrap
a cool-looking film-strip design around it and make it available to you
through this link. Below is an example (reduced in size, slightly).
The normal dimensions for this image are 425x249. To use it, simply build your own <img> tag. For example:
<img src="%%$message.preview_image_url%%">
Wrap an <href> tag around it to make it clickable and set the destination for that tag to be %%$message.viewerlink%%. |
| %%$message.duration%% | This tag displays your message's duration. The format is spelled out. For example, it might read 45 seconds. |
| %%$message.subject%% | This displays the subject you entered when you created your message. If you left one off it will simple read Eyejot Video Mail from followed by your name. |
| %%$message.body%% | If you entered any body copy (notes) then they would appear wherever you place this tag in your layout. |
| %%$message.sent_date%% | This is when the message was sent, formatted to adhere to the recipient's selected time zone and/or format, |
| %%$join_code.encrypted%% | This tag can be used to present a join link to someone. If they follow the link it will associate them with your affiliate account, if you had set one up (if you didn't - you should!) |
Email Footer
In order to remain CAN-SPAM compliant in the United States, all out-bound email notification
messages will carry text that identifies the sender (by name) as well as Eyejot's physical mailing address
in Seattle, WA. An opt-out link will also appear. While you can't control whether or not this footer
appears (it always does and by agreement you're obligated to not attempt to obfuscate its message
or general appearance), you can control how it looks, to some degree.
We've setup a design with rounded corners and several color themes you can control using special tags. Example are below. We have a limited number of corner graphics. So, this means that, only the following table colors can be used: #D2D6C7 (dark gray), #7cc576 (light green), #7da7d9 (light blue), #f7941d (orange), #fd0154 (raspberry) and #2d54d4 (darker, richer blue). While the table colors are somewhat limited, you are able to control the font color as well as the width of the table to match with your own personal template. Incidentally, we built our footer using HTML tables in order to be as email friendly and compatible as possible.
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%%set footer.bg_color = 979297%% %%set footer.text_color = white%% %%set footer.width = 450%% |
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%%set footer.bg_color = 7cc576%% %%set footer.text_color = white%% %%set footer.width = 450%% |
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%%set footer.bg_color = 7da7d9%% %%set footer.text_color = white%% %%set footer.width = 450%% |
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%%set footer.bg_color = f7941d%% %%set footer.text_color = white%% %%set footer.width = 450%% |
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%%set footer.bg_color = fd0154%% %%set footer.text_color = white%% %%set footer.width = 450%% |
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%%set footer.bg_color = 2d54d4%% %%set footer.text_color = white%% %%set footer.width = 450%% |
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