Using EL in Subscriptions

There are several uses for expressions in the Subscriptions area of MEP. Primarily, they enable you to customize the SMS messages that are sent; for example, you can personalise the subscription messages to the end user; e.g. their name.

You can use variables with user, system, and subscription scopes and all functions within many of the editable fields of the Subscriptions tab.

The Subscriptions tab also enables you to upload and download user variables.

Add or update user variables manually

You can add or amend user variables via the Add Users From CSV File option in a subscription. The headings of the file will be interpreted as user variables. The wizard for this will ensure that each heading is mapped (how you wish) to existing or new user variables.

Retrieve user variables

You can access user variables via the MEP UI and downloaded them as .csv files via the Subscriptions tab:

  1. Access the specific subscription and select Download Users.
  2. To include custom user variables, select the Download user variable data check box.
  3. On the next page, add any custom user variables you want to add to the report. Built-in user variables are included by default.

Note: How you can retrieve or view a variable’s value is determined by its scope. Within a service, you can use the Integration > HTTP Poke handler to send most variable values to an external platform.