ESL examples using contact data – Emarsys ESL

Contact data is a crucial part of the internal Emarsys database.

Generic structure of contact data

Much of contact data is stored within single-choice fields fields that have both a value ID and a text value. You can check for the value of a field with an if statement (ID used). To reference the value ID of a single-choice field, use {{contact.XX}}. If you want to reference the text value, use {{contact.label.XX}}. Please bear in mind that the value for a given ID can vary by language.

First Name + Title (first letters capitalized), Replace, and Default filters:

{{contact.1|title|replace({'_':' '})|default('Friend')}}

Checking email domain

In this example below, we are looking for system field #3 (contact.3), which is the email address. If the contact has an example.com email address, it is displayed so. Otherwise it is stated that it has a different address.

{% if "@example.com" in contact.3 %}
    this is an example.com email address
{% else %}
    this is not an example.com email address
{% endif %}

Just hello?

Using anifstatement you can check if a field is empty {% '' %}. So, if we got no first name on file (the corresponding contact.1 is empty), just say 'Hello'. See example below:

{% if contact.1 !='' %}Dear {{contact.1}}
{% else %}Hello!{% endif %}

Birthday

Find out if today is someone’ birthday:

{% if contact.4|localized_date('en','Mdd') == 'now'|localized_date('en','Mdd') %}
Happy birthday !
{% endif %}

Gender distinction

In the next example we are targeting our customers based on their gender. We can show different products to them, based on the above query.

{% if contact.5 == 1 %}
   this is for him
{% else %}
   this is for her
{% endif %}

Reference

Let's go through a list of the possible email personalization placeholders.

General Information

Parameter	Description
{{ contact.1 }}	First Name
{{ contact.2 }}	Last Name
{{ contact.3 }}	Email
{{ contact.9 }}	Title
{{ contact.26 }}	Preferred email format
{{ contact.46 }}	Salutation

Personal Information

Parameter	Description
{{ contact.4 }}	Date of Birth
{{ contact.5 }}	Gender
{{ contact.6 }}	Marital Status
{{ contact.7 }}	Children
{{ contact.8 }}	Education
{{ contact.10 }}	Address
{{ contact.11 }}	City
{{ contact.12 }}	State
{{ contact.13 }}	ZIP Code
{{ contact.14 }}	Country
{{ contact.15 }}	Phone
{{ contact.16 }}	Fax
{{ contact.37 }}	Mobile
{{ contact.38 }}	First Name of Partner
{{ contact.39 }}	Birthdate of Partner
{{ contact.40 }}	Anniversary

Other Information

Parameter	Description
{{ contact.27 }}	Avg. length of visit (minutes)
{{ contact.28 }}	Page views per day
{{ contact.29 }}	Days since last email sent
{{ contact.31 }}	Opt-In
{{ contact.32 }}	User status
{{ contact.33 }}	Contact source
{{ contact.34 }}	Contact form
{{ contact.35 }}	Registration Language
{{ contact.36 }}	Newsletter
{{ contact.47 }}	Email valid
{{ contact.48 }}	Date of first registration

Parameter	Description
{{ contact.17 }}	Job Position
{{ contact.18 }}	Company
{{ contact.19 }}	Department
{{ contact.20 }}	Industry
{{ contact.21 }}	Phone (office)
{{ contact.22 }}	Fax (office)
{{ contact.23 }}	Number of Employees
{{ contact.24 }}	Annual Revenue (in 000 EUR)
{{ contact.25 }}	URL
{{ contact.41 }}	Company Address
{{ contact.42 }}	ZIP code (office)
{{ contact.43 }}	City (office)
{{ contact.44 }}	State (office)
{{ contact.45 }}	Country (office)