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Selliers
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November 17, 2025
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Changing the fragment variable values after a email fragment is broken

  • November 17, 2025
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We are facing a editorial challenge when users are creating emails in the email designer. This is regarding the use of email fragments. We have created many different fragments as design elements/modules, and in all of this fragments we are using variables to control how the fragment should look like. F ex we use variables to choose between pre defines background colors, we use variables to set the alignment of the content (can vary from mobile to desktop), we have different styling of CTAs etc. Today this settings needs to be done before the fragment is broken, and the content can be edited. The challenge is after the fragment is broken we cant change the variable settings from the interface.

But there is a work around, and this is not user friendly. From the code editor we can access the fragment code, and by finding the right place in the code we can manually change the chosen value of the variable. And this is reflected in the template when we save the change.

It would be very helpful if it would be able to change the variable values after the fragments is broken. We see that this can manually be done since the values is already present in the code, we just need the interface to do it -and not manually from the code editor.

 

 

2 replies

Sukrity_Wadhwa
Community Manager
Community Manager
February 18, 2026

Thank you, ​@Selliers, for outlining this use case so clearly and for explaining the workflow challenges around parameterized fragments.

We reviewed this with the Product team. The current behavior is intentional by design. Parameterized fragments are meant to allow users to personalize content (such as text or images) while keeping layout and structural controls constrained. Once a fragment is broken (unsynced), it becomes fully editable, and the system removes those parameter controls because the content is no longer governed by the fragment configuration.

For that reason, enabling variable controls in the interface after a fragment has been broken is not something that is planned at this time.

Thank you again for contributing this idea and for helping improve the experience through your feedback.

Sukrity Wadhwa
Sukrity_Wadhwa
Community Manager
Community Manager
February 18, 2026
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