Component Filter
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Component Filters are used when you want to personalise an email. In summary, personalisation is achieved by applying logic rules to a Component in an email. It is the Componant Filter that defines the rule.
How Component Filters Work
These filter types work in a slightly different way than other filters that are used to select a set of records. The Component Filter returns either a value of True or False to say whether or not a contact meets the conditions defined in the filter. When a personalised message is set the Component Filters are evaluated. If a value of True is returned then the Component will be included in the message. If False is returned then the Component is not included for that contact.
Creating a Component Filter
If you want to have a message in which there are two components but only one of them is ever sent (e.g. Members see one component and Non-members a different component), then you will need to build two Component Filters.
1. For example, create two components, one for Members to see and one for Non-members to see.
2. Now click on the Filter Component and a new screen will appear with a list of your existing components.
3. To create a new component, click onto Create Component Filter.
4. You will now be asked to name your filter. Once this has been done the filter will then need some Clauses and Conditions. In this example, one filter would contain the condition "If MEMBER is TRUE", and the other on a different component the exact reverse "If MEMBER is not TRUE" to show one component to members and a different one to non-members.
