Coaching emails and blueprinting

JohnM

Coaching emails are a great way to communicate to your Teamraiser participants and donors, but if you use blueprinting, there are a few things you should know you can do, and what pitfalls to avoid.

When you create a coaching email message in the blueprint event, it immediately appears in child events without having to initiate a push of the changes to your parent event.

The coaching email appears as a template on the child event, meaning it has to be copied if it is to be sent.

If any changes are made to the coaching email on the blueprint event, the template immediately is updated, but any previous copies of that template on the child event are not altered.

A major issue you may run into is that in the creation of the content of a coaching email on a blueprint event you could create content that relies on the teamraiser id - and the teamraiser id entered into the content tags on a blueprint will be the id of the blueprint causing the values that are rendered on the child event to reflect information about the blueprint event.  A way to avoid this is to