I have a simple question. I need the info about the Track to be included in the email templates. This is
important because the Director needs to inform the author about which track s/he has been (re)assigned to.
I took a guess and given that {$paperTitle} and {$paperAbstract} exist I tried to use
{$paperTrack} but that did not work.
So my query is whether a variable Track exists.
I was surprised that I could not find a list of available variables anywhere in the documentation.
I think I tried looking anywhere before posting. What I would like is a simple table that then people
can use as they want in the templates. If it does not exist could this table be provided somewhere?
(e.g. appendix to OCS in one hour)
Thanks, MarcoB
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Email template
by marcob » Fri Oct 09, 2009 4:30 am
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Re: Email template
by mcrider » Tue Oct 13, 2009 3:48 pm
Hi MarcoB,
This type of question has been asked before, but any type of list would be unwieldy and would change frequently, even with just email templates. Still, its a possibility that we might write one up in the future--I'll bring it up with others on the support team.
One way to get at these template variables would be to grep your OCS installation for 'mail->assignParams', which will show all parameters assigned directly to email objects. Other global variables are assigned in the classes/template/TemplateManager.inc.php constructor function--These are variables accessible in any template or email file.
For the track name, try using the variable 'trackName', which is used in certain email templates.
Cheers,
Matt
This type of question has been asked before, but any type of list would be unwieldy and would change frequently, even with just email templates. Still, its a possibility that we might write one up in the future--I'll bring it up with others on the support team.
One way to get at these template variables would be to grep your OCS installation for 'mail->assignParams', which will show all parameters assigned directly to email objects. Other global variables are assigned in the classes/template/TemplateManager.inc.php constructor function--These are variables accessible in any template or email file.
For the track name, try using the variable 'trackName', which is used in certain email templates.
Cheers,
Matt
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Re: Email template
by marcob » Wed Oct 14, 2009 12:45 am
Dear Matt,
Thank you for your help. The variable trackName worked for me so I'm using it now to notify authors
of which track they have been assigned.
About keeping a table with these variables, when you say that the list would change frequently this
seems to be a good reason to have a list! It is exactly when things change that it's important to have
a masterlist to keep track of them. Just my humble opinion of course.
Best,
MarcoB
Thank you for your help. The variable trackName worked for me so I'm using it now to notify authors
of which track they have been assigned.
About keeping a table with these variables, when you say that the list would change frequently this
seems to be a good reason to have a list! It is exactly when things change that it's important to have
a masterlist to keep track of them. Just my humble opinion of course.
Best,
MarcoB
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Re: Email template
by jmacgreg » Tue Oct 20, 2009 2:01 pm
Hi all,
I reported this as a feature request a while ago: http://pkp.sfu.ca/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4564. Marco, please feel free to CC yourself to that for future updates.
Cheers,
James
I reported this as a feature request a while ago: http://pkp.sfu.ca/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4564. Marco, please feel free to CC yourself to that for future updates.
Cheers,
James
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Re: Email template
by billysundar » Sun Jan 10, 2010 6:53 pm
is there a variable for the presentation start and end time?
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