When crafting an email to send to more than one person, it is sometimes helpful to make it specific to the recipients. You can use merge fields to enter in a person's name, title, party, chamber, or other bits of information that is personal to the reader.
In the Compose Message section of the email creation page, start writing your email. From the you will see a list of fields that you can use to fill in your message. When selecting a merge field, you will see the placeholder for the text within brackets. Here is a list of available merge fields and their placeholders:
Merge Field Selection | Merge Field Placeholder |
Staff First Name | [STAFF_FIRST] |
Staff Last Name | [STAFF_LAST] |
Staff Title | [STAFF_TITLE] |
Official Title | [OFFICIAL_TITLE_FULL] |
Official First Name | [OFFICIAL_FIRST] |
Official Last Name | [OFFICIAL_LAST] |
Official Party | [OFFICIAL_PARTY] |
Chamber | [CHAMBER] |
State Represented | [CHAMBER] |
District Represented | [DISTRICT] |
Office Address | [OFFICE_ADDRESS] |
Office Address 2 | [OFFICE_ADDRESS2] |
Office Room No | [OFFICE_ROOM] |
Office City | [OFFICE_CITY] |
Office State | [OFFICE_STATE] |
Office Zip Code | [OFFICE_ZIP] |
For example, if you wanted to reach out to all staffers to verify the office address of the representative that they currently work for, you could compose something like this:
When you send your message, it will be filled out with the corresponding information for the recipients of the message.