[ic] email tag for ship_notice CHANGED:[if value email_copy ...] on ship_notice

[Paul Jordan]

> > >
> > > I have altered the way the "email_copy" field of the userdb table is
> > > used and changed the "mail_receipt" so that my users will have the
> > > option of choosing: no email, plain text, or html.  That was easy.
> > >
> > > But, now I would also like to make this option carry through for the
> > > shipping notice.  Here's where im having trouble.  I open up the
> > > "order_status.html" admin page and get smacked with a bunch
> > of perl.  I
> > > found the [email-raw] tag which includes the ship_notice.
> > >
> > > First of all, can you do html emails in the [email-raw] tag?  The
> > > usertag doesn't say anything about an 'extra' that you can
> > call out like
> > > with [email]...
> > >
> > > I tried putting in [if] statements into the ship_notice
> > pointing to the
> > > email_copy field but that did not work... All the perl code
> > outputs to
> > > the error log.  I also tried removing the email-raw tag and
> > using the
> > > [email] inside the ship_notice but to no avail either.
> > >
> > > It looks like the perl in this page uses the email_copy field to
> > > generate the "wants_copy" variable, so im not sure if maybe
> > that's where
> > > it needs some work to do this...?
> > >
> > > Can someone point me in the right direction?
> >
> > You _can_ do HTML emails with email-raw AFAIK. Alternatively you can
> > checkout my email_mime.tag posted to this list. I think that would
> > avoid headaches about to format the email stuff.
> >
>
> Sure can, I got that to work. Thanks Racke!  BTW, I searched the
> archives and didn't see any email_mime.tag?!?
>
> I'm still having trouble getting the ship_notice to do what I want.  I
> have tried putting this in the ship_notice file:
> [perl arg=scratch]
>         $Config->{NoSearch} = '';
>         return '';
> [/perl]
> ***found this ^ on the list (see I did search it first!)***
> [loop prefix=user search="
> 		fi=userdb
> 		st=db
> 		sf=username
> 		se=[loop-data transactions username]
> 		ml=1000
> 		rf=email_copy
> "]
> [if value "[loop-data userdb email_copy]" eq 1]
> Email...plain text...
> [elsif value "[loop-data userdb email_copy]" eq 2]
> Email ...html format....
> [/elsif]
> [/if]
>
> Am I somewhere close?? Can anybody give me a little input? I just need
> to evaluate the value of 'email_copy' in the appropriate userdb field so
> that the email will choose between text or html.  What I have as shown
> above yields NO error in the log, but no email either.
> Thanks in advance!
>   _____
>
> Sincerely,
> Aaron Hazelton
> >>Hazenet<<
> aaron@hazenet.net
>

My short experience with the rf parameter, made me have to use
[loop-param...]

You might want to try [loop-param email_copy]



Paul