Any of the elements of your e-mail message can be personalized using normal CopiaFacts variables. Because of the number of '@' characters that are used in the e-mail environment, the normal CopiaFacts variable introducer is changed to an ASCII grave accent character (`) on all FS commands beginning $email_... and in the expansion of e-mail body text and HTML files. You can change this with the $macro_char command, or you can suppress all expansion in a specific message using $email_options nomacro.
For example, in an e-mail broadcast, if your list has a column headings FIRSTNAME you could include a line in your $email_body file:
Dear `BCX_FIRSTNAME
The `BCX_x variables reference list columns by the name x in the column's header row. You can also reference columns by number, for example `BCF3 for column 3.
You can also personalize graphical PDF attachments using the CopiaFacts Graphical Customization feature, defining annotations with variable contents in FFVIEWER. There are two ways to do this:
•Create a .GCT or .GTT file as an e-mail attachment file and use a content-type of application/pdf on the $email_attach command. This special content type causes the output file to be written as PDF instead of TIF. Note that GCT and GTT customization should always use @ as a variable prefix, even though (indirectly) invoked by means of an $email_... command.
•Create a .GPT file as an e-mail attachment file. which will cause the annotations to be overlaid on a copy of the 'watermark' PDF file. This method has the advantage that if the original PDF is searchable, it remains so, instead of being converted to image format.
