
How to use variables in canned responses
Variables are placeholders in canned responses or signatures that are dynamically filled based on the context. They can be used in both the body and the subject line of canned responses. They can also appear in URLs.
Here's a preview of what you can do with variables in canned responses:
Variable Options
Below is the complete list of variables. To use a variable, simply type two double curly brackets {{. The list will appear, and you can select the one you'd like to use.If the recipient name does not exist in your Contacts, it will not populate in your canned response. For situations like this, define a fallback. When defining a fallback, make sure you surround it with single quotes.
- {{recipient.first_name | 'there'}}
Note: If you are using canned responses in rules to send automatic replies, the {{user...}} variables will be blank because no user is actually tied to the reply, as it is automatic.
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If I understand correctly, this isn't possible yet, but please add my vote to the pool.
Here is the request as a user story: I'm adding an autoresponder for advanced customer service requests (I.E. you've just asked a question that to properly answer it is going to cost you an hour (or some chunk thereof) of a sales engineer's time and we are not willing to give that to you for free in the hopes that you're going to accept our quote.) We charge $150 per hour for this sales engineering service in increments of 10 minutes. Before I know how many minutes it's going to take I have to read the email and give a low expected range and a high expected range. In a sample case I'm guessing 30-60 minutes. When I open the canned response I want a subset of options and variables. I.E. lowVal = 3 highVal = 6 and a checklist of reasons |Multiple Quotes| Multiple Locations| Risk Factors [x,y,z].
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Dear John Doe,
We charge $150 per hour in 10 minute increments for sales engineering support. At this complexity you can expect it will cost you between $75 and $150 as it will take 30 to 60 minutes to finish turning this conversation into a precise quote. The underlying factors to this being more complex than normal are: You're asking for multiple materials that cut in different kinds of shops. You're asking for variations on your vector art which significantly change the scope of the project and the types of machines which can fabricate this. You're asking for post fabrication finishing work which means this one job has to be done by two different shops which adds both risk and cost to the job.
Thanks,
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At the very least it would be nice if we could just see highlighted areas where the values could be typed into the email and not allow anyone on our customer service team to hit send without typing in a value or deleting the section.Reply -
Guilherme Valdemarin Hi there,
The best way to accomplish this is with our Sequences feature. That's our version of mail merge.
Hope that helps!
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can be used in both the body and the subject
Is this accurate? I was able to add a variable to the body (cool feature), but I'm trying to add a variable in the subject line and the variable list is not popping up when I type {{. I tried typing the full variable anyway, saved the response, tested it and the variable populated within the body, but the area in the subject where I entered the variable code remained blank (and the variable code that I had typed was gone).
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Is it possible to use multiple variables of the same type? For example: Each recipient's name filled in when there is more than one recipient? It may also helpful to have the ability to define whether variables get used based on if the information is sourced from the To: line, CC: line, or BCC: line.
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Joe Hemsing You can utilize sequences to personalize and send mass emails (using dynamic variables to multiple recipients). You can learn how to do that here. Unfortunately, we do not have the ability to define whether variables get used based on the information it is sourced from.
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Lemuel Chan thank you. I may have been unclear in what I meant. I meant if I am sending 1 email to two recipients (Nick and Eric, for example), I would like the ability to have both names inserted:
“Dear [Nick] and [Eric],”
... or if there are multiple recipients, perhaps replace the variable with something universal, like “Dear [Team],”
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