Help:Message (Invitation Email)
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REQUIRED FIELD

The default message is pulled from your language file and provides some sample text that you can modify. Whether you edit the message or not, please utilize the Preview Verification Email button to preview your message until you are happy with the way it looks.


If you feel comfortable editing this field, you may enter your custom message here. You must include the following template toolkit tag so that the invited response can gain access to their individual invitation. The resulting link in the email message will be different for each record in your data set.

[% invitation.url %]

You can also mail merge any column from your data set, using the dsrecord variables. These variable names are determined based on what you have set as Column ID for each column in your data set. For instance, if you have a column with the "ID" of 'name', you might want to start the email with:

Hi [% dsrecord.name %]

If you choose to send the message in the HTML format, there is an additional option to Use survey's HTML save template as wrapper for message. Each template comes with a custom email wrapper that can be used to give the email messages the same design feel as the survey itself. You can choose whether or not you would like to use the wrapper. Feel free to design your own as well by turning this option off and just entering the HTML you want delivered.


Multiple Languages

If you have enabled multiple languages for this survey, you will see an input field for each language you have available. Because this is a required field, you will have to fill out at least one of the language fields. Any language which you do not provide a value for will use the highest priority language that has been completed. The languages are listed in order of priority. This allows you to enter the text only once if you desire to have all languages use the same value.


Template-Toolkit Capable

You can utilize Template-Toolkit tags in this field. You can embed template variables into the field content. See an example of how one would use template tags within answer choice text:

Work out during the
[% IF survey.time <= '12:00:00' %]
  morning
[% ELSIF survey.time <= '05:00:00' %]
  afternoon
[% ELSE %]
  evening
[% END %]

The example above displays a different answer choice depending on what time of the day the survey taker views the question. Click Here for a quick tutorial on Template-Toolkit.