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April 26, 2016 at 9:53 am

Hello,

You can do that by creating a custom template ahead of time:

https://eventespresso.com/wiki/how-to-create-a-custom-message-template/

Then it will be available for selection in the dropdown when you click on the batch email option at the end of the registrations page.

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Lorenzo

April 28, 2016 at 4:18 am

You can do that but not by using the shortcodes currently.

It all depends on the ‘context’ the message template uses to generate the message. Newsletter were designed to to build within the ‘contact’ context (the message was sent directly to the EE contact connects to the registrations which meant the messenger did not have access to registration/event data)

We are working on changing the newsletter over to allow use of registration and event based shortcodes (the shortcodes you are referring to are event based, venues, dates and instructors are assigned to events so you need the event base shortcodes)

One way you can do this current is to setup a template similar to how you have it above and manually change the details within template before sending to each batch.

I’ll check in with our developers to see if there is a way to allow event based shortcodes within the newsletter message type and get back to you.

April 28, 2016 at 11:53 am

That would be creating a custom newsletter message template from within Event Espresso -> Messages -> Newsletter -> Create Custom: http://take.ms/Sg6GF

The details you can alter at the time of sending are the details within the [NEWSLETTER_CONTENT] section, here – http://take.ms/83BI2

So place all of your content in that section and format the ‘Main Content’ area to not output details you don’t want, you could just call [NEWSLETTER_CONTENT], like this – http://take.ms/ESRBy

Then save your template, make sure you give the message template a name you can identify, I used ‘Custom k9nosetime newsletter template’ so I could find it on my site – http://take.ms/ZMVAg

Now go to Event Espresso -> Registraions.

Click the checkbox next to a registration (use a test registration of your own if you want to fully test this) and then click ‘Send batch message (X selected)’ at the bottom.

Now you’ll see a dialog that allows you to select custom newsletter message template you just created – http://take.ms/KKgIs

You can now make changes to the template and send from there. So you can change each of your placeholder like __(Building and location)_____ manually and then send.

One caveat with this is changes made within that dialog box will be saved to your newsletter message template. So when you select the next batch of registrations to send you not see you __(Building and location)_____ placeholders but the text your used last in place of each of those.