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Variables in flowsteps (Enable or disable a flowstep based upon incoming data)

In SendPro it is possible to activate flowsteps by applying conditions. For example you might want to change the subject of an email to another language if a certain condition is met.

Example scenario

Another scenario might be that your recipient does not want the email to contain any type of tracking mechanisms. In this article we will show you how you can enable or disable a flowstep based upon incoming data from your source system. However you can of course change the flowstep and the name of your data. The mechanism stays the same. Take the following steps:

  1. Collect necessary data
  2. Implement the condition in the flow
  3. Validate the email

1. Collect necessary data

First we start with the incoming data. In our scenario a recipient has given permission for his email behavior to be tracked. So open tracking and click tracking can be enabled. To do this your source system must be able to either send data with a boolean as value.

Example of a .JSON payload using our API:

{
"messageType": "EMAIL",
"headerFromName": "Example Sender",
"senderAddress": "sender@yourdomain.com",
"headerToName": "Example Recipient",
"recipientAddress": "recipient@yourdomain.com",
"subject": "Test Message",
"text" : "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.",
"data": {
    "tracking": true
    }
}

Note that under the data object, we have nested a key called tracking with the value being true (boolean). If you have the archive flowstep enabled. You can see the following in our interface:

2. Implement the condition in the flow

Now that you have successfully send the data to SendPro, it is time to implement the condition. In the interface go to the design of your flow and drag your flowstep to the flow. In this example we go for the click tracking flowstep:

When dragged onto the flow, click on the flowstep. For some Flowsteps you have to go the advanced tab to find the condition field. Important to know: if you click on the tool-tip it will show you how to note the conditions:



To enable this flowstep when tracking has a true value. Note the following:

As an extra safety measure we first check if the variable exist and if it also evaluates to true. We have added a comment so you know why it setup this way. In case a co-worker has work with it later on.

3. Validate the email 

In the case of click tracking, you can check if it works by looking at the links in the body of the email. More about click tracking in emails can be read here.