How To Prepend to Person Notes

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In the How to Prepend to Person Notes video, 2014 Infusionsoft Partner of the Year Kim Snider provides the audience with a quick demonstration of the proper technique behind prepending person notes in Campaign Builder.

How To Prepend to Person Notes

Time Stamped Show Notes:

  • 00:16 – Person Notes is a tab located within a given contact record in Campaign Builder; they contain a large area for collecting information
  • 00:25 – The objective here is to add additional information to the contact’s (Dritte Dawg is the contact in the demo video) Person Notes—essentially the aim is to create and keep a running, time-stamped log file in reverse chronological order of contact field changes
  • 00:50 – This is a great way to retain mission critical data being changed by a form or track changes in a sequence
  • 01:14 – Definition of prepend
    • 01:25 – Any Text Anywhere Pocket Developer plug-in is key to this process
  • 01:33 – Within Campaign Builder, go to the Pocket Developer demo/testing area à Click edit
  • 02:09– Within the Any Text Anywhere plug-in, Click the Prepend Contact Notes button
  • 02:20 – In any post, there is the URL and any number of Name/Value pairs
    • 03:05 – The definition of Prefetch Notation
  • 03:37 – Contact.ContactNotes is the merge field name for the Contact’s Person Notes
    • 03:52 – Contact.ContactNotes will be assigned to a name using the prefetch notation of [contactNotes]
    • 04:04 – Whatever is currently in Contact.ContactNotes (the existing Person Notes) is fetched using this prefetch notation
  • 04:08 – This demo also fetches whatever is in Contact.MiddleName using the prefetch notation of [middleName]
  • 05:25 – The saveTo field can never have tildes
  • 05:33 – textToSave notation sample defined and explained
    • 06:19 – Tying it back to the prefetch[middleName] notation
  • 06:33 – When working in Pocket Developer, everything is case sensitive!!!
  • 07:01 – The content pulled for textToSave will be saved to Contact.ContactNotes which (remember) is the Person Notes field within the contact record
  • 07:18 – The final product…what it should look like
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