Setting up your My Alerts Email Template

My Alerts comes with an HTML page template that is used to create the body of the e-mail notifying the subscriber of any changes. This template contains a number of displayed and hidden keywords.

Template Keywords

The keywords used in the HTML template are as follows:

 

Keyword

Description

 ##username##

User's first name

 ##locationnames##

A list of locations to which the user has subscribed

 ##myalerts_switchboard_link##

The link to the User Locations page in My Alerts

 ##myalerts_unsubscribe_link##

The link to the Unsubscribe page in My Alerts

<!--##GeneralBlock--Start##-->

General (location-less) result block – start tag

<!--##GeneralBlock--End##-->

General (location-less) result block – end tag

<!--##LocationBlock--Start##-->

Location result block - start tag

<!--##LocationBlock--End##-->

Location result block - end tag

 ##location-link##

Link(s) to the locations in the My House page

 ##locationname##

Location name(s)

<!--##LayergroupBlock--Start##-->

Layergroup result block - start tag

<!--##LayergroupBlock--End##-->

Layergroup result block - end tag

 ##layergroup-link##

Link(s) to the layergroup in My House page

 ##layergroupname##

Name(s) of Layergroup where changes have occurred

<!--##NewInformation--Start##-->

New layer in the layergroup - start tag

 ##newlayers##

The name(s) of the new layer in the layergroup

<!--##NewInformation--End##-->

New layer in the layergroup - end tag

<!--##MissingInformation--Start##-->

Missing layer in the layergroup - start tag

 ##removedlayers##

The name(s) of the removed layer in the layergroup

<!--##MissingInformation--End##-->

Missing layer in the layergroup - end tag

<!--##NewRecords--Start##-->

New records found in layer - start tag

 ##newrecordlayer##

Layer name(s) where new records found

<!--##NewRecords--End##-->

New records found in layer - end tag

<!--##MissingRecords--Start##-->

Missing records in layer - start tag

 ##missedrecordslayer##

Layer name(s) with removed records

<!--##MissingRecords--End##-->

Missing records in layer - end tag

<!--##GeneralChange--Start##-->

General changes in layer - start tag

 ##changedlayername##

Layer name(s) with general changes

<!--##GeneralChange--End##-->

General changes in layer- end tag

 

You may choose to create your own page but you MUST include ALL of the keywords in the correct sequence. As seen in the Sample My Alerts Template HTML.