Tips for writing HTML Templates

James Murty — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 05:04:30 GMT

Current Revision posted to Community Docs Wiki by James Murty on 12/5/2022 5:04:30 AM

Here are some tips for writing and managing HTML Templates in Tessitura. These tips work as of version 15.

Make your own backups

Tessitura does not create back-ups of HTML Templates, so you must do this yourself if you want to keep a history of changes and guard against accidentally breaking your emails.

Some advice:

Never edit an existing template directly. Instead, duplicate the original to a new name and work on it there. Copy your changes back into the original once you are sure they work
Make your own copies of template documents before – and during – the editing process by copying everything in the Template tab and pasting it somewhere else.
- If you have a version-controlled code repository this would be a perfect place to save copies of your templates and work-in-progress
- Even if you don't, saving your own copies of your templates before major changes is almost certainly a good idea.

Inspect contents of a Model or data object

Use the following snippet to show the contents of a data object in JSON format. This lets you find out what fields are available.

This example shows the contents of anObject. It works best if you wrap the statement in <pre></pre> tags.

<pre>
	@Raw(Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.SerializeObject(
		@anObject,
		Newtonsoft.Json.Formatting.Indented
	));
</pre>

Tags: razor