Campaigns451 is all about customization and personalization of emails and SMS messages with the student in mind. We want you to be able to address each student by name and reference details from their profile and other data points found in your Element instance that help make your communication useful and unique — even when that communication is going out to many people at once! Tokens are a great way to do this.

Tokens are essentially a small bit of code that works like a placeholder. When you're writing a message, you see the token as something like [user:intended_major] in your text. When the person receiving the message sees the message, the token is replaced with real content. For example, if Student A is an intended major Biology and Student B has intended major Accounting, [user:intended_major] would be replaced with Biology in the message for Student A and Accounting in the message for Student B.

On this page, we'll explain how to use tokens, and provide a list of common tokens you can insert into messages. 

Including a token in your email and SMS messages is simple. All you need to do is enter the token text enclosed in brackets [ ] in the content of your message. 

Where to use them:

Example

The following images show where you can add a token to the Subject Line, Preview Text, and SMS text of your campaigns.

If you are wanting to add tokens to the body of a campaign, simply highlight your text and select "Insert Token".

To create a custom token you can use the custom field slug, hyphens, and add "user:" to the front of it.

For example, the below custom slugs become the below tokens:

Slug: user-custom-demo1-dietary-explain
Slug: user-custom-demo1-dietary-restrictions

Token: [user:user-custom-demo1-dietary-explain]
Token: [user:user-custom-demo1-dietary-restrictions]

Let's say you have a token for a middle name, but the student didn't enter a middle name. The space will be empty because there is no data to be collected. Therefore, we advise that you mindfully include tokens that have data to be included in the campaigns.