I am new to Sitecore. I am looking to create a custom email template for an email campaign. I am using Sitecore 8.1 with EXM 3.3. I Have been trying to implement the following walk-through:
Walkthrough: Building a custom message template
However, when I create a new email campaign with my new template, I am unable to assign components to the various placeholders on my aspx page. I have proved that the aspx file is the correct file in my Sitecore website by adding plain html to the file and seeing the results displayed in the body section of the message tab in the EXM application, as you can see from the following screen shot.
Below is the code for my Email Template:
<%@ Register TagPrefix="sc" Namespace="Sitecore.Web.UI.WebControls" Assembly="Sitecore.Kernel" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="sc" Namespace="Sitecore.Web.UI.WebControls" Assembly="Sitecore.Analytics" %>
<%@ OutputCache Location="None" VaryByParam="none" %>
<html>
<head>
<title>
<!-- Used for storing title of the email -->
<sc:Placeholder runat="server" Key="mn-title"/>
</title>
<!-- The VisitorIdentification control ensures that people viewing this page
with a traditional web browser will be classified as humans not bots.
This control is not required if people only view messages using Email clients -->
<sc:VisitorIdentification runat="server" />
</head>
<body style="background-color:gold">
<label>test html label added here!</label>
<form method="post" runat="server" id="mainform">
<table style="width:100%">
<tr>
<td colspan="2" style="background-color:blue;color:green;width:100%">
<!-- Used for storing the title of the newsletter in h1 -->
<sc:Placeholder runat="server" Key="mn-header" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="background-color:white;color:black;width:100%">
<!-- Used for storing the content blocks of the newsletter in h2 and paragraphs -->
<sc:Placeholder runat="server" Key="mn-content" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" style="background-color:blue;color:green;width:100%">
<!-- Used for storing the footer e.g. the unsubscribe link -->
<sc:Placeholder runat="server" Key="mn-footer" />
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</body>
</html>The html code contains the following placeholder keys:
<sc:Placeholder runat="server" Key="mn-title" /><sc:Placeholder runat="server" Key="mn-header" /><sc:Placeholder runat="server" Key="mn-content" /><sc:Placeholder runat="server" Key="mn-footer" />
When go to the Message tab for my email in EXM and choose the Add component button, I get the "Add Here" buttons on my page but am unable to choose any renderings to fit the mn-header and mn-footer components. The mn-content allows me to choose from several predefined renderings as seen in the screen shot below:
Have I missed something important here? How can I select/choose what renderings are available for my placeholders?
The Walk-through contains five sections that need completing:
- Create a branch template
You can see from the following screen shot that this section is configured correctly:
- Create template
You can see from the following screen shot that this section is configured correctly:
- Create the layout
You can see from the following screen shot that this section is configured correctly:
- Bind the layout and the message template
I'm pretty sure that I have managed to complete the first 3 sections of the walk-through correctly but when I try to complete the section "Bind the Layout and the message template", point 5 of the walk-through says:
On the Controls tab, add the relevant controls. As a minimum add the following two controls:
- Target Item – in /Renderings/Email Campaign.
- Set Page Title – in /Renderings/Email Campaign.
But I don't have "Target Item" as an rendering to add in this case as you can see from the following screen shot:
So I have added the following components in the Device Editor from the available renderings as seen in the following screen shot:
- Make your template available in EXM
You can see from the following screen shot that this section is configured correctly:
Any Ideas what I am missing or doing wrong? Thanks in advance!
