How to use conditional fields

Relevant Products: Mail Disclaimers

Scenario

To avoid empty AD fields appearing in your Exclaimer Mail Disclaimers formatted email disclaimer, signature, etc you can add a Conditional Field. For example, you want to include a mobile telephone number field in your organization’s email messages from your AD users. Some of your AD users don’t have a work mobile telephone number so you want them to default to their telephone number field instead. 

Resolution

In the disclaimer editor -

1. Choose "Fields", "Advanced", "Conditional Field" and a conditional field will be inserted: 
2. From the Properties pane on the right set the "If" property to "Mobile". This is the Active Directory field whose content you wish to test
3. Click the ellipses against the "Then" property. This is the data that will be output if the field being tested is not blank. Enter "Mobile:" and from the Fields dropdown add the Mobile field
4. Choose OK to close the "Then" editor
5. Click the ellipses against the "Else" property. This is the data that will be output if the field being tested is blank. Enter "Office:" and from the Fields dropdown add the Telephone number field
6. Choose OK to close the "Else" editor
7. Your Conditional Field should be setup as below: 
8. Click the "Preview" button. Note that for users that have a work mobile telephone number this is displayed: 
9. For users that don't have a work mobile telephone number the standard telephone number is displayed: 

More Information

The Conditional Field provides the same "if...else...endif" functionality as the Mail Utilities product. In addition, the "Then" and "Else" editors allow you to include a combination of Active Directory fields, images, RSS feeds and text when the Active Directory field is or isn't present.