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Function documentationProduct Tables in Mail Forms

 

If you are have assigned products to a campaign, you use product tables to send up-to-date data about these products in table form in personalized mail.

Note Note

We deliver this function for the service parts logistics (SPL) role only.

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Prerequisites

To send personalized mail with product tables, you have assigned products to the campaign.

In the master data for the products that you want to use, you have entered details for the product attributes that you want to display in the product table. If you do not enter details, the corresponding field in the product table is blank.

Features

You can insert a product table in a text element.

You can do the following in product tables:

  • Define columns

    You can select from a variety of product attributes, such as Product ID, Description, or Unit of Measure, to display in the columns of the table. You can use the product attribute as the header description for a column, or you can enter your own header description.

  • Define layout

    You can define the layout of the table, for example, to correspond to your enterprise's color scheme.

    Note Note

    If you send the personalized mail in plain-text format, the system converts the product table to plain text.

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    You can define the layout of the table in one of the following ways:

    • Using formatting attributes

      You define the layout by selecting formatting attributes from dropdown lists. In this way, you do not need to write any HTML source code.

      You can select formatting attributes for the table in general, such as for the table border or the cell padding, and for the table header and body, such as for the font and alignment.

      When you have selected the formatting attributes, click Generate Source Code.

      Caution Caution

      When you click Generate Source Code, you overwrite any existing formatting in the table.

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    • Using HTML source code

      You define the layout by entering the HTML source code directly.

      You can use the Check Source Code function to check the syntax of the source code.

  • Preview your product table

    When you have created your product table, you can use the preview function to check the layout of your product table.