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Amanda
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April 13, 2016 at 1:45 pm
I have events in EE that have a series of meetings. I would like to insert the datetime_start of only the first meeting of the series into the text of my registration confirmation email.
I’ve made a custom template and I’ve inserted custom text into the [event list] section–I tried to use “[datetime_start limit=1] but that didn’t work.
Is there a way to do this?
Thanks, Amanda
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Garth
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April 13, 2016 at 3:45 pm
Hi Amanda,
That’s a nice guess, but the [DATETIME_START] shortcode has no additional parameters. You would have to enter/type/add the datetime information statically to the custom message notification if you don’t want the full list, that way it will only show the one you want.
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Amanda
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April 13, 2016 at 5:16 pm
The only trouble with that approach is that I have a whole category of events that I want to use this particular custom template with and not all of them start on the same day. I can probably work around this, but it would be handy to have that capability.
Thanks,
Amanda
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Josh
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April 13, 2016 at 5:50 pm
Hi Amanda,
Another approach would be to input the date you want to be displayed in a custom field in the event editor. Then you can display the custom field value with the [EVENT_META_*] short code in the [EVENT_LIST] section of the email.
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Amanda
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April 14, 2016 at 10:33 am
Hi Josh,
As it happens, I already have a custom field in these events. I tried inserting [EVENT_META_*]–it returned “array” in the email.
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Amanda
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April 14, 2016 at 10:49 am
Hi Josh,
It occurred to me–I can use the [EVENT_EXCERPT] tag, since I’m not using it for anything else. That works.
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Amanda
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April 14, 2016 at 10:55 am
Is it possible to have more than one custom field in the event editor? And to specify which field will show in the [EVENT_META_*] ?
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Tony
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April 14, 2016 at 11:05 am
Hi Amanda,
Yes you can.
The _* shortcodes are all dynamic shortcodes (there’s a few different types of _* shortcodes in EE) meaning you can do something like this:
[EVENT_META_*custom-meta-key]
and EE will parse to the custom meta value for that key. Note the key must match exactly.
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Amanda
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April 14, 2016 at 11:34 am
Is the key the same as the field name?
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Amanda
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April 14, 2016 at 11:39 am
Never mind–I tried it and it works!
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Tony
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April 14, 2016 at 11:49 am
Yes within the custom fields the ‘Name’ field is the key, the value is… well the value for that key 🙂
If you have any further questions just let us know.
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