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Anonymous
February 10, 2017
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Use tokens inside of tokens (nested tokens)

  • February 10, 2017
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It would be nice to be able to use a token inside of another token.  For example- I may have a token called "event description" that would include the event name, date, time, URL, etc.  that I have already tokenized.  By using these tokens inside of this other token, it would allow me to do less overall updating when cloning the campaign. 

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    Dan_Stevens_
    Dan_Stevens_
    Level 10
    February 10, 2017

    Existing idea:

    In fact, here's the grandaddy of ideas around tokens:

      SanfordWhiteman
      SanfordWhiteman
      Level 10
      February 10, 2017

      Dupe like Dan said... also note that Velocity (email script) tokens can in fact be nested, or more precisely, share internal variables.

      So in your example:

      ----BEGIN TOKEN 1----
      #set( $eventDescription = {
      "name" : "blah",
      "date": "2017-02-15"
      } )
      ----END TOKEN 1----

      ----BEGIN TOKEN 2----
      ${eventDescription.name} ## references the data from the other token
      ----END TOKEN 2----

      Some mind-blowing stuff can be done with this.

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      Anonymous
      February 10, 2017

      Thanks!  That is good to know!

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      kh-lschutte
      February 6, 2020
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