EPiServer.Forms 5.5.0 placeholder breaking changes

Renat Khasanshin

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After upgrading to EPiServer.Forms 5.5.0 placeholder template changed from #template item# to ::template item::

For example:

EPiServer.Forms 5.4.0 had syntax like this: #summary#

EPiServer.Forms 5.5.0 has syntax like this: ::summary::

It brakes all emails because they don't contain information from template items.

#297956

Edited, Mar 09, 2023 6:54

Tuan Anh Nguyen

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In the Episerver.Forms 5.5.0, we changed the (#) placeholder to (::), because, the (#) character conflicted with the new TinyMCE behavior. Below
is release note for that:
https://world.optimizely.com/documentation/Release-Notes/ReleaseNote/?releaseNoteId=AFORM-3260
So, you have to re-configure the email template for all of forms to change the (#) placeholder to (::). If you have many forms, you can consider to run script below on DB directly and restart the web app.
Please backup the DB before running and you should try it on local/dev environment first to make sure everything works without any issues after running the script.

update tblContentProperty set LongString = REPLACE(LongString, '#', '::') where fkPropertyDefinitionID in (select tbp.pkID from tblPropertyDefinition tbp where tbp.[Name] = 'SendEmailAfterSubmissionActor')
update tblWorkContentProperty set LongString = REPLACE(LongString, '#', '::') where fkPropertyDefinitionID in (select tbp.pkID from tblPropertyDefinition tbp where tbp.[Name] = 'SendEmailAfterSubmissionActor')
update tblContentProperty set LongStringLength = LEN(LongString) where fkPropertyDefinitionID in (select tbp.pkID from tblPropertyDefinition tbp where tbp.[Name] = 'SendEmailAfterSubmissionActor')

#299105

Edited, Mar 28, 2023 6:47

Mark Metcalfe

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I have additional information: "In Forms 5.5.1 we added support for both placeholders, so now it should work with either :: or # https://jira.sso.episerver.net/browse/AFORM-3330"

#320926

Apr 23, 2024 17:25