Email Body Options

The Body section of the Universal Email Quick Insert allows you to specify the email content that will be sent.

Content can be specified in three different ways:

  1. Choose from a default email file.
    Provides a useful starting point for creating your email design. This creates a separate file which you can update at any point outside of Universal Email.
  2. Create a text-based email from within Universal Email
  3. Edit the file in Dreamweaver.

    Editing your email content within Dreamweaver allows you to take advantage of its available features, including html development, dynamic data tools, and css capabilities. Additional functionality provided by other WebAssist software, such as eCart and DataAssist, can also be used to assist in developing your email content.

Editing in Dreamweaver

The page opened to edit your content is a temporary page, and saving it will return the updated content to the Universal Email dialog. It should be noted:

  • Relative locations for links and images need to be updated to contain the full path. Once an email has been sent by your application, it will need a full path to a location, as it will be outside of your staged environment and in somebody's mailbox.
  • CSS will work if specified in-line, but any style declarations that are normally placed in the head will need to be specified in the editable region called "emailhead" when created in this document window. This editable region is only visible in code view in DW.
  • Any server-side code that you wish to be run on the page that would be normally be placed above the head tag needs to be specified on the page you are applying the Universal Email server behavior to.



Editing in Universal Email

In the text editor, there are three features of the user interface available to help in creating the content for your message:

  • Content window - allows you to directly type in text or code to be used within the body content.
  • Adding eCommerce with Paypal - this image links directly to help documentation explaining how to add PayPal payment buttons to your email body content.
  • Get from File button - opens the Select a File For Your Mail Body dialog box to choose a source document to import body content.