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Velocity Scripting - make lowercase

  • December 6, 2016
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Hi,

So I wrote the following velocity script to make a token value to appear in lower case in the email copy:

1. #set ($ptier = ${lead.Partner_Tier__c.toLowerCase()})

    $display.capitalize($ptier)

  Am using this as a token {{my.Previous_Partner_Tier1}} in my email copy.

2. #set ($pptier = ${lead.Previous_Partner_Tier__c.toLowerCase()})

   $display.capitalize($pptier)

  Token that I am using in email copy {{my.Previous_Partner_Tier1}}

Yesterday - I did couple of sample tests of the email and it all worked fine.

Today its not working, the tokens are not getting populated with value and are appearing as {{my.Previous_Partner_Tier1}} in the copy itself. Would you know if anything has changed in the velocity email scripting side that I need to update in the script above? or am I missing something?

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This code renders into error when used as a token:

  1. #set( $ptier = $display.capitalize( $lead.Partner_Tier__c.toLowerCase() ) ) 
  2. ${ptier} 


So here is whats worked for me:

To make a value lowercase and capitalize the first word, you can use the velocity scripting as below:

    #set ($ptier = ${lead.Partner_Tier__c.toLowerCase()})

    $display.capitalize($ptier)

Note:

* The email preview shows you the token (i.e {{my.Previous_Partner_Tier1}}), rather than the value

* Setting up default value for the velocity token resulted in errors, so I haven't put one in

* You can do sample send, but better to test it by doing a email send using a smart campaign and I could see the values populated accurately.

* One prob is that I can see a "space" in the email copy next to wherever the values are now - which needs to be "trimmed". I'll update you if I am able to resolve this one.

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SanfordWhiteman
SanfordWhiteman
New Participant
December 6, 2016

First, your code isn't doing what you're saying it's doing.  It's not lowercasing, it's lowercasing and then capitalizing the first letter.

Second, you're saying you've named the two Velocity scripts the same: {{my.Previous_Partner_Tier1}}. This is not possible. The same name cannot refer to two scripts at the same time. If you're overriding the token at a lower level of the tree, that's still only one available script by that name.

(Also, don't use ${formal} syntax in #set statements unless you need to. Makes the code harder to read. And please use the code highlighting/formatting ability of this forum.)

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Anonymous
December 7, 2016

Yes, thats what I want it to do, make the value lowercase and then capitalize first letter.

Sorry, posted this message quickly so pasted token names as the same - but in my marketo program the velocity script are correctly entered and they do have different names: 1. my.Partner_Tier1 and 2. my.Previous_Partner_Tier1

If anyone has done this before and your script has worked, please let me know? Reply with your script so I can see - thanks

SanfordWhiteman
SanfordWhiteman
New Participant
December 7, 2016
#set( $ptier = $display.capitalize( $lead.Partner_Tier__c.toLowerCase() ) )
${ptier}

However, I suspect the problem isn't with your code (which is effectively the same as the above) but how you're testing.  Send yourself a real email, not a sample.

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