Set a default message body

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Hi everyone,

I’ve created a template for my newsletter, but I’m trying to find a way to setup a default message body as well.

The reason for this is that I have content that appears in every newsletter (eg the company logo) which I have defined in the template. In addition, there is content that changes each time, but should display in the same location - a banner image and heading.

Is there a way to either create default body content, so the body is prepopulated when starting a new campaign, or display the template in the campaign editor so portions can be customised for that particular mail out?

Thanks in advance for any help and suggestions.

Thanks,
Derek

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Hi Derek,

The templates should be setup with everything that stays the same between campaigns, and a placeholder for the variable content that changes from campaign to campaign. [CONTENT]

Then when you start a new campaign, specify the information that will be plugged into the placeholder, and specify the template.

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What Derek is asking about is having some structure (html layout) for the message content in addition to the template. That is not possible but one approach is to copy/paste the content from a previous message as a starting point.

Or you can use the Manage Campaigns plugin to copy a campaign.

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Thanks Duncan, that’s a good way to deal with it. I’ll create a campaign with the standard structure and save it as a draft,then make use of the Manage Campaigns plugin to copy this draft each time.

Thanks for your help!

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For future reference the manual chapters edit here https://www.phplist.org/manual/ch020_templates.xhtml

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