Stored vs displayed values for list variables in email templates

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June 1, 2016
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The new email editor is introducing List variables that enable the designer to set a List of values to be chosen by the user creating an email. This is great but is still missing the possibility to display one thing and have the stored value to be more technical.

Typical usage for this would be to enable the user to change some CSS behavior on the fly. e.g.:

<meta class="mktoList" id="textFontFamily" mktoName="Main Text Font Family" values="Arial,Verdana,Times New Roman">

Would be used to change the fonts used in the whole email

But in, some cases, you will want to hide the complexity to the user. Therefore, it would be preferable to have the possibility to set

values="displayed value1|stored value1, displayed value2|stored value2, displayed value3|stored value3".

Ex:

values="Large|20px,medium|10px,small|5px".

-Greg

Marketo

Justin_Cooperm2

Level 10

Nice! Yeah, we can build this for you.

Dave_Roberts

Level 10

Awesome suggestion Gregoire, this would be a game-changer for sure!

Is this live yet, or in-progress?

Grégoire_Miche2Author

Level 10

I have no news

@Justin Cooperman ?

-Greg

Justin_Cooperm2

Level 10

We haven't had traction on this one yet

Kent_Brubaker

Level 1

Hi. Over a year later, I too am curious if anything has been done with this. I would want to use it for hex colors on background tables in the HTML and CSS to give our client their group of corporate colors to work with:

values="Red|#A41F35,Orange|#E94F3D"

Paul_Hughes

Level 2

Just searched to see if this exact feature was available, and am disappointed there's no traction here! I'm looking at the exact same use case as the above post (Kent Brubaker)

I voted up on this idea, and will have to have folks memorize hex values in the list options for now.

@Justin Cooperman