{"id":1041,"date":"2026-10-26T22:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T16:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smppcenter.com\/kb\/?p=1041"},"modified":"2026-10-26T22:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T16:56:11","slug":"faq-custom-variable-not-replaced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smppcenter.com\/kb\/faq-custom-variable-not-replaced\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is $CUSTOM1$ appearing in the delivered message instead of the name?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The variable in your message does not match a column header in your file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Check three things:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The header is written exactly as <code>$CUSTOM1$<\/code>, with both dollar signs and no extra spaces.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The same spelling is used in the message text.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The column actually has values in it. An empty cell leaves nothing to substitute.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Use <strong>Generate First Line Preview<\/strong> before sending. It shows the first row with values filled in, so an unreplaced variable is obvious straight away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The variable in your message does not match a column header in your file. Check three things: Use Generate First Line Preview before sending. It shows the first row with values filled in, so an unreplaced variable is obvious straight away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[515],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smppcenter.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smppcenter.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smppcenter.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smppcenter.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smppcenter.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smppcenter.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smppcenter.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smppcenter.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smppcenter.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}