“Feed” Object

Within any Zephyr context, the feed object contains a number of useful pieces of data about the current data feed being used in a campaign or transactional email. This object is useful for populating dynamic sections of an email based on items such as the feed name.

Here is an example “feed” object:

{  
  "name":"Sports Feed",
  "url":"http://feed.sailthru.com/ws/feed?id=58d6ba9c3c8aa9e55a8b4574",
  "filter_tags":[  
    "sports"  ],
  "filter_out_tags":[  
    "entertainment"  ],
  "filter_vars":[  
    {  
      "key":"category",
      "val":"sports"    }
  ],
  "filter_out_vars":[  
    {  
      "key":"sponsored",
      "val":"true"    }
  ]
}

(Line breaks added for clarity.)

Field	Type	Description
name	string	The name of the feed
url	string	The url of the feed
filter_tags	list	Any tags being filter for
filter_out_tags	list	Any tags being filtered out
filter_vars	list	A key/value pair of any variables being filtered for
filter_out_vars	list	A key/value pair of any variables being filtered out

This can be useful for having dynamic sections in your email template, such as a header, based on the data feed being used. For example:

{if feed.name == "Sports Feed"}
<!--Sports Header-->
{else if feed.name == "Politics Feed"}
<!--Politics Header-->
{else}
<!--Default Header-->
{/if}