(Shortcodes & Analytics) What variables can you insert in e-mails and notifications with Otto Print

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Here is a comprehensive list of all the variables, or tags as we call them, that you can use in Otto:

Shortcodes

The shortcodes provides you a quick & easy way to add information about different areas in Otto. 

For instance, if you use the shortcode %ct_firstname% when communicating with lots of contacts through a sequence message, each contact's real firstname will be displayed automatically.

Contact info

%ct_id% Numerical contact ID
%ct_firstname% First name
%ct_lastname% Last name
%ct_email% E-mail address
%ct_website% Website
%ct_street_address_1% Street address 1
%ct_street_address_2% Street address 2
%ct_postal_code% Postal code
%ct_city% City
%ct_state% State
%ct_country% Country
%ct_phone_1% Phone 1
%ct_phone_2% Phone 2
%ct_cellphone% Mobile phone
%ct_fax% Fax number
%ct_title% Title
%ct_department% Department
%ct_ip_address% IP address
%ct_referral_source% Referral source
%ct_facebook_url% Facebook URL
%ct_twitter_url% Twitter URL
%ct_linkedin_url% LinkedIn URL
%ct_custom_1% Actual Custom Name 1
%ct_custom_2% etc...
%ct_custom_3% ...as you can have any (n) number of different custom variables

Assigned user info

%ct_assigned_user_id% Numerical user ID
%ct_assigned_user_firstname% First name
%ct_assigned_user_lastname% Last name
%ct_assigned_user_email% E-mail address
%ct_assigned_user_phone% Phone
%ct_assigned_user_cellphone% Mobile phone
%ct_assigned_user_title% Title
%ct_assigned_user_signature% User signature

Contact organisation info

%ct_org_id% Numerical organisation ID
%ct_org_email% E-mail address
%ct_org_website% Website
%ct_org_name% Organisation name
%ct_org_number% Organisation number
%ct_org_street_address_1% Street address 1
%ct_org_street_address_2% Street address 2
%ct_org_postal_code% Postal code
%ct_org_city% City
%ct_org_state% State
%ct_org_country% Country
%ct_org_phone_1% Phone 1
%ct_org_phone_2% Phone 2
%ct_org_cellphone% Mobile phone
%ct_org_fax% Fax number
%ct_org_turnover% Turnover
%ct_org_profit% Profit
%ct_org_registration_year% Registration year
%ct_org_number_of_employees% Number of employees
%ct_org_industry% Industry
%ct_org_sic% SIC
%ct_org_net_worth% Net worth
%ct_org_sales% Sales
%ct_org_facebook_url% Facebook URL
%ct_org_twitter_url% Twitter URL
%ct_org_linkedin_url% LinkedIn URL

Custom field names (not their values)

Use these tags if you want to display the names of the custom fields.
%ct_custom_name_1% The actual value you've given as a name to the custom variable 1, etc.

Other variables, like Google Anaytics variables in links

You can basically use any variables, but a common use is to want to track the actual user activity in Otto using %otto_link% and to track campaign-type of info in Google Analytics, then you have to know that %otto_link% will actually provide the first question-mark(?) that a link will need in order to know where variables will follow. This means that you will have to separate new variables with the ampersand/et-sign (&), so common examples would look like this:
%otto_link%&utm_medium=email&utm_source=otto&utm_campaign=Summer-Campaign In this case, Otto will be able to track the user as normal, and you will also get campaign-information into Google Analytics, in this case that the medium is email, the source is otto and the campaign-name is Summer-Campaign.

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