Friend Communications format change

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If you're using Friend Communications for taking online reservations (or if you plan to), be aware that they have added a field to their E-mail notification that makes it easier to parse the add-ons.

Instead of requiring a separate parsing rule for each "adder" type to set the appropriate description for it, the new "adderdesc" fields contain the description which can be extracted directly. This results in a more foolproof result and doesn't require the parsing rules to be changed each time you change the add-ons used.

If you're already set up and it's working fine, then there's no immediate need to change anything. However if you need to change the adders that you use or if you're not set up yet, then you should take advantage of the new format. The change is fairly simple, outlined below.

1. Go to Maintenance / Online Setup / Online Reservations - Parsing Sets

2. Select Reservation Friend for the Parsing Set Type

3. Select the Reservation Friend (default) parsing set and click Edit...

4. Locate the series of rules for the field "Tran[1]:Tran_Item" that have a rule starting with "Set field value if 'Compare to' matches".

5. Select the first one and Edit it. Change the Parsing action to "Extract Field Value", and change the Text before field to "adderdesc1:", and Save it.

6. Delete all of the other "Set field value if 'Compare to' matches" rules for the "adderid1" field.

7. Repeat steps 4 thru 6 for the adders 2, 3, 4, and 5 (fields Tran[2] thru Tran[5]).

8. Save the changes when done.

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