Table smart assets facilitate the output of series of repeated data entities in RPI inbound or outbound content.
Three types of table smart asset are available in RPI:
•The Predefined table smart asset is used to display two-dimensional tabular data. Typically, a table smart asset might be rendered in email content – e.g. to display transactional information in a customer statement.
•The Custom HTML table smart asset provides complete control over an HTML-based table smart asset’s:
o Header
o Content – including the number of columns across which transactional entities will be displayed.
o Footer
•The Custom Text table smart asset provides for additional control over a text table’s header, content and footer.
Table smart assets can be used in the following Batch Outbound contexts:
•Text asset
•HTML asset
•Email offer
o HTML content
o Text content
•SMS offer
Table smart assets can also be used in Inbound Realtime.
All table smart asset types’ content panels contain a Configure Table Smart Asset Settings section, within which the following are always shown:
•Display Mode: this dropdown field controls the type of table content that will be served by the smart asset. Three options (as described above) are available:
o Predefined (supported at HTML and Text)
o Custom HTML
o Custom Text
Each Display Mode is described separately.
•Filter: optional provision of a standard or basic selection rule at this property allows you to limit the data to be displayed within the table smart asset. For example, if displaying a list of product recommendations within an email offer, you could apply a filter to limit the list to only products with a list price of more than $100.00.
Note that NoSQL selection rules are not supported. Filter is not shown when running in NoSQL mode.
You can populate the property using drag and drop, or by browsing for an existing selection rule. You can also initiate the creation of a new selection rule. Once populated, you can open the latest version of the rule in the Rule Designer; you can also invoke Clear to remove the Filter.
•Show Preview: clicking this button displays a preview of the table smart asset in the Table Smart Asset Preview dialog (covered separately).