Hi!

It's just to add the data to the Data-collection on the Receiver-object in your provider.

This is a snippet from the new provider for the new Umbraco Members API looks:

public override List<Receiver> GetSubscribersForSendOut(string listItemValue, SendOutParams parameters)
    {
 ......
var receiver = new Receiver()
          {
                        Fullname = member.Name,
                        Email = member.Email,
                        DataProviderKey = member.Id.ToString(),
          };

          if(useCustomData)
          { 
                        var data = new Dictionary<string, object>();
                        data.Add("email", member.Email);
                        data.Add("username", member.Username);
                        data.Add("loginname", member.Username); // was called login name in older versions
                        data.Add("login", member.Username); // UI calles it login
                        data.Add("name", member.Name); // UI calles it login

                        foreach (var property in member.PropertyTypes)
                        {
                            data.Add(property.Alias, member.GetValue(property.Alias));
                        }

                        receiver.Data = data;
                    }

}

Thanks for the pointers.

For instance the default return for GetSubscribersForSendOut () is something like;

return (from item in listAll select new Receiver() { DataProviderKey = item.DataProviderKey, Email = item.Email, Fullname = item.Fullname }).ToList();

In this case how do you pass 'custom data' in the return value from GetSubscribersForSendOut?

I have actually tried something like this;

public override List

And when i compile, send test blast to the list, I dont see the customData captured in EmailTrackingItems table CustomData column.

Is there something else to it?

cheers!

In the above example, the custom data is added by

receiver.Data = data;

what should be the return call, as this doesnt seem to work:

return (from item in listAll select new Receiver() { DataProviderKey = item.DataProviderKey, Email = item.Email, Fullname = item.Fullname }).ToList();

how do we return the .data in that return call?

Yes that works. Thanks Markus!

I can see the data like Salutation in the customData column.

When we use the placeholder in the email body like

Dear [Salutation]

it doesnt replace it automatically, does this mean one needs to write a rendertask for these? Not sure if I'm getting it right.

Thank you!

Hi!

This feature is a little "undocumented" at the moment.

1. Make sure that you're last render task in /config/newsletterStudio.config is:

   <task name="InsertCustomDataRenderTask" type="NewsletterStudio.Services.RenderTasks.Tasks.InsertCustomDataRenderTask, NewsletterStudio" />

2. Make sure that you use the merge fields like this [#nameOfListItem]

I checked the newsletterconfig and the last task is indeed set to that, InsertCustomDataRenderTask, re-checked for spelling too.

Now if i go back and add like [#Salutation] in the email body and blast it, it doesnt seem to replace anything.

When i check the column in the ns table it looks like this;

{"Salutation":"Mr","ID":"0123456","Firstname":"Test","LastName":"Tester"}

what is missing in this case?

That was it! It works after enabling the new setting attribute.

Thank you

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