Template Based Emails -- Custom Trigger event

[RayYates]

How can I trigger Template Based Emails manually?

My client wants to send an additional email that's similar to the Order Confirmation: Customer email BUT only under certain conditions.

I created a copy of the template as ORDERCONF_EXTRA, made the changes and added it to Template Based Emails.

On the INVC page Template I want to do something like this

<mvt:if expr="condition EQ 'true'">
API Call to Send email ORDERCONF_EXTRA
</mvt:if>

Has anyone else tried this?

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

Re: Template Based Emails -- Custom Trigger event

You don't need an api call if you are triggering from a Merchant event. You can use that same conditional in the actual templated email.

<mvt:if expr="g.someGlobalWithinINVC">

content of email

</mvt:if>

then set the email to fire on customer order. If the g.someGlobalWithinINVC is not present, the email will not be sent as merchant wont send an empty email.

[RayYates]

Re: Template Based Emails -- Custom Trigger event

PERFECT! I can stop digging around in the API now :)

Thanks Bruce

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

Re: Template Based Emails -- Custom Trigger event

No prob...at least when *I* ask that question a month from now I'll have a reference to look up :)

[Mike521w]

I know this is pretty old, but for many years this worked for me, and recently I noticed that merchant started sending emails even if blank. Can either of you confirm that you've seen the same thing?

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

I haven't heard from any clients who have this type of setup (and there are probably at least a dozen).

Can you force test this? Is the email really "empty". Not sure, but I imagine that even if there was an empty space character, the mail will fire. So, maybe first test to see if it is really empty. As a matter of course, whenever I test a variable, I also wrap it in []. Been bitten by leading and trailing spaces too many times :)