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Hello Nuno,

If I understand you correctly you have a custom module that outputs some data on the frontend. But this data should depend on the user who receives the corresponding page via "Newsletter, Extended" module.

If the above is correct then I think it's not possible to get the value for "DWUserID" tag from your custom module because the page is rendered before it will be sent to all recepients and not each time after the next recepient is selected (only Newsletter tags are rendered at this point).

- Pavel

Hi Pavel,

Does the same happen with the newsletter v3? But if the page is only rendered once, how do the newsletter tags get rendered? Does the module do it itself?

We really need to get the custom fields from a user, otherwise, we will ahve to build a custom one, and would like to avoid this.

Nuno

Hello Nuno,

Yes, you're right - the same goes for Newsletter V3 (newsletter is rendered only once, module-specific template tags are being set by the module afterwards).

Why don't you use the "Custom fileds" functionality provided by the module ? Or maybe the data that you want to output requires some preprocessing ?

Take a look at this section of the documentation:
http://manual.net.dynamicweb.dk/Dynamicweb-On-line-Manual/Modules/Newsletter,-Extended/Module-setup/Custom-fields.aspx

- Pavel

Hi Pavel,

That's exactly what we want to use, but I cannot use it in the newsletter. There are no tags  to get them, so what's the use? Just for record?

Basically we need a newsletter that will send a bunch of information to a list of subscribers, but it is imperative that a lot of custom fields are rendered.

The subscribers will be sincronized with a database and those fields need to be accessed in the newsletter. Any ideias?

Nuno