Auto Generated Text Version

Although the majority of your recipients use email providers or programs that render HTML, so may not accept HTML versions of email. To accommodate them, we recommend you generate a text version of your email, to use in addition to the HTML version.

The text version only includes text. It does not show images, tables, colors, or links (although it can show the full URL, which the recipient can paste into their browser).

If you use guided or advanced editor modes, you can allow eTapestry to auto-generate the text version or manually enter your own. By default, the text version is auto-generated when you create a template in these modes. When you update the text in the HTML version, the auto-generated text version is also updated.

Warning: If you use no editor mode, you need to manually create your text version.

To view the auto-generated text version, click Text Version. A separate screen appears to show the text version.

• In guided mode, the auto-generated text version includes relevant text from your HTML template. It excludes items such as the table of contents, because the links would not work in a text version. For other links, the text version shows the original link text, follows by the full URL listed in brackets. If your template includes blocks, these are delineated into sections by rows of tildes (~).

• In advanced editor mode, because the template is not broken up into clearly defined sections, eTapestry cannot determine which items should or should not be replicated in the auto-generated text version. Therefore, all text in the HTML version appears in the auto-generated text version and sections are not delineated using tildes(~). However, each link is still shown as the original link text, followed by the full URL listed in brackets.

To edit the text version manually, click Text Version, enter your changes, and click Update. Your changes are saved. However, the text version is no longer auto-generated. Any changes you make to the HTML version are no longer automatically updated in the text version.

Tip: Next to the Text Version button, "Auto-Generated Mode" appears or "Manually Edited Mode" appears to indicate whether your text version is automatically updated.

To discard your manual edits and return to auto-generated mode, click Text Version and then click Auto-Generate.

Note: All templates created prior to the 6.5.0 release that included a text version, were placed in manually edited mode. When you edit these templates, you can click Text Version and then click Auto-Generate to discard the original text version and auto-generate a new one.