Tracking Message Changes

  1. Overview
  2. Use cases
  3. How it works
  4. Callback Parameters
  5. Content Codes
  6. Common Actions
  7. Complete Event Chart

Overview

We added a new function to track message changes in the builder. This powerful new feature answers two important questions:

  • How can I monitor what my customers do in the builder?
  • How can I tell when a message has actually been updated?

When onChange is enabled and your customers edit their message – the callback provides you valuable information on the new content or section, the kind of action that was performed on existing content, and the JSON update (as the entire page, as well as JSON patches).

onChange is also the foundation on which the Undo, Redo & Edit History feature was built on.

Use cases

Usage tracking

In today’s software, knowing how customers use an application is essential if you want to provide a good user experience (UX) and eliminate friction points. It’s also a valuable resource to understand where to invest future development effort and build something that customers love.

onChange tracking gives you – the host application – the opportunity to get this information when your customers are creating designs in the builder.

You can use the onChange callback to:

  • Understand if your customers are actively working on the message they opened (or if instead they temporarily abandoned that task to work on something else).
  • Discover if they are using one of the great new features that your team recently enabled.
  • Dismiss or confirm a bug by reproducing a customer’s steps.

Autosave

So you might be asking: “Isn’t this similar to the existing Autosave feature?” The simple answer is “No!”.

The Autosave function is triggered at regular intervals, whether anything has even changed since the last Autosave event or not, which could result in the user seeing a ‘recovery dialog’ window even if there weren’t any changes between the previously saved message and the most recent automatically saved one.

Now you can invoke the Autosave event only when something has been added or updated, resulting in a better message recovery experience.

History

Why is having a historical log of message changes so important? As with the previous cases, this will allow you to provide a better overall user experience. Creating a good email message or campaign typically involves input from several people or departments before it’s finally ready to send, but that can lead to inadvertent mistakes that might cause hours of work to be lost. Saving the differences between versions of a message created during the email production workflow – and allowing your users to compare & restore them – could be a huge time-saver in those cases.

Content check

When one of your users adds or updates text or images, the onChange callback returns the new input to your application, allowing you to trigger a complementary function based on it.

The use cases change from application-to-application, but the feature is flexible enough to accommodate a wide variety of scenarios. Here are just a few:

  • Content suggestions
  • Prevent unwanted content
  • Link validation
  • Link reputation check
  • Custom HTML validation
  • Set up an alternative workflow when conditional syntax is applied

How it works

To enable changes tracking you need to add in beeConfig:

  • The configuration option
  • The onChange callback, with the related response function

Configuration

Enable "onChange" Event



trackChanges: true, // boolean


This parameter defines when the tracking is active in the builder.

onChange Event



onChange: function (jsonFile, response) { // do something with response... },


The onChange callback is triggered every time the builder tracks a change in the message. It returns the message JSON and a response JSON which contains all the information needed to handle any of the use cases described above.

Callback response schema




{
    "code": "01", // See content and action codes bellow
    "description": "string",
    "value": "string", // See the chart below
    "patches": {...} // JSON patch formatted object
}


Callback Parameters

Parameter Type Value
code string Unique identifier for the event created by combining the content code with the action code.
description string A text description of the event in the chosen language. (e.g. Image Block Padding Left: 5px)
value string If available, this is the new value. (e.g. If padding changes to 5px, then the value returned is “5px”)
patches array An array of patches in the JSON Patch specification. JSON Patch is specified in RFC 6902 from the IETF.

Content Codes

Code
Content
01 Text Block
02 Image Block
03 Button Block
04 Divider Block
05 Social Block
06 Dynamic Content Block
07 HTML Block
08 Video Block
14 Row
16 Message

Common Actions

Code Action
00 Dropped
01 Dragged
02 Deleted
03 Duplicated
04 Changed
05 Opened
06 Closed
07 Locked
08 Saved
09 Restored
10 Content area background color
11 Do not stack on mobile
12 Row background image
13 Background Center
14 Background Repeat
15 Background Full width
16 Row Display condition
17 Reverse stack order on mobile
20 Text color
21 Link color
23 Text edited
24 Line height
25 Content area width
27 Background color
28 Default font
30 Padding All sides
31 Padding Left
32 Padding Right
33 Padding Top
34 Padding Bottom
40 Hide on mobile
41 Video url
42 Play icon type
43 Play icon color
44 Play icon size
50 Align
51 Automatic image resizing
52 Full width on mobile
53 Image width
60 Alternate text
61 Dynamic image src
62 Dynamic image toggle
63 Change image
64 Image link
70 Button Align
71 Button Link type
72 Button width
73 Button Auto width
74 Button Background color
75 Border radius
80 HTML edited
81 Border All sides
82 Border Left
83 Border Right
84 Border Top
85 Border Bottom
90 Divider Line toggle
91 Divider Width
92 Divider Height
93 Divider Align
95 Icon Name
96 Icon Alternate text
97 Icon Url
98 Icon spacing
99 Icon Align
128 Background Video
129 Paragraph Spacing
130 Font Weight
131 List Type
132 Start List
133 List Spacing
134 List Indent
135 List Style Position

Complete Event Chart

Code Description Type Value
0100 Text dropped module
0101 Text dragged module
0102 Text deleted module
0103 Text duplicated module
0120 Text color {{value}} string Hex color code (e.g. #FFFFFF)
0121 Link color {{value}} string Hex color code (e.g. #FFFFFF)
0123 Text edited string HTML
0124 Line height {{value}} string Value as percent (e.g. 150%)
0130 Padding Add sides {{value}} string Value in pixels (e.g. 25px)
0131 Padding Left {{value}} string Value in pixels (e.g. 25px)
0132 Padding Right {{value}} string Value in pixels (e.g. 25px)
0133 Padding Top {{value}} string Value in pixels (e.g. 25px)
0134 Padding Bottom {{value}} string Value in pixels (e.g. 25px)
0140 Hide on mobile boolean true | false
0200 Image dropped module
0201 Image dragged module
0202 Image deleted module
0203 Image duplicated module
0230 Padding Add sides {{value}} string Value in pixels (e.g. 25px)
0231 Padding Left {{value}} string Value in pixels (e.g. 25px)
0232 Padding Right {{value}} string Value in pixels (e.g. 25px)
0233 Padding Top {{value}} string Value in pixels (e.g. 25px)
0234 Padding Bottom {{value}} string Value in pixels (e.g. 25px)
0240 Hide on mobile boolean true | false
0250 Align {{value}} string left | right | center
0251 Automatic image resizing boolean true | false
0252 Full width on mobile boolean true | false
0253 Image width {{value}} string %
0260 Alternate Text string text value
0261 Dynamic image string Image path
0262 Dynamic image toggle boolean false (only triggered when disabled)
0263 Change image string Image path
0264 Image link string Url
0300 Button dropped module
0301 Button dragged module
0302 Button deleted module
0303 Button duplicated module
0320 Text color {{value}} string Hex color code (e.g. #FFFFFF)
0324 Line height {{value}} string Value as percent (e.g. 150%)
0330 Padding Add sides {{value}} string Value in pixels (e.g. 25px)
0331 Padding Left {{value}} string Value in pixels (e.g. 25px)
0332 Padding Right {{value}} string Value in pixels (e.g. 25px)
0333 Padding Top {{value}} string Value in pixels (e.g. 25px)
0334 Padding Bottom {{value}} string Value in pixels (e.g. 25px)
0340 Hide on mobile boolean true | false
0370 Align {{value}} string left | right | center
0371 Link type {{value}} string Url
0372 Button width {{value}} string %
0373 Auto width boolean true | false
0374 Background color {{value}} string Hex Color Code (e.g. #FFFFFF)
0375 Border radius string Value in pixels (e.g. 5px)
0381 Border Add sides {{value}} string Value in pixels | Border Style | Hex color (e.g. 1px solid #C7702E)
0382 Border Left {{value}} string Value in pixels | Border Style | Hex color 1px solid #C7702E
0383 Border Right {{value}} string Value in pixels | Border Style | Hex color 1px solid #C7702E
0384 Border Top {{value}} string Value in pixels | Border Style | Hex color 1px solid #C7702E
0385 Border Bottom {{value}} string Value in pixels | Border Style | Hex color 1px solid #C7702E
0400 Divider dropped module
0401 Divider dragged module
0402 Divider deleted module
0403 Divider duplicated module
0430 Padding Add sides {{value}} string Value in pixels (e.g. 25px)
0431 Padding Left {{value}} string Value in pixels (e.g. 25px)
0432 Padding Right {{value}} string Value in pixels (e.g. 25px)
0433 Padding Top {{value}} string Value in pixels (e.g. 25px)
0434 Padding Bottom {{value}} string Value in pixels (e.g. 25px)
0440 Hide on mobile boolean true | false
0490 Line string Value in pixels | Border Style | Hex color 1px solid #C7702E
0491 Width {{value}} string Value as percent (e.g. 150%)
0492 Height {{value}} string Value in pixels (e.g. 25px)
0493 Align {{value}} string left | right | center
0500 Social dropped module
0501 Social dragged module
0502 Social deleted module
0503 Social duplicated module
0530 Padding Add sides {{value}} string Value in pixels (e.g. 25px)
0531 Padding Left {{value}} string Value in pixels (e.g. 25px)
0532 Padding Right {{value}} string Value in pixels (e.g. 25px)
0533 Padding Top {{value}} string Value in pixels (e.g. 25px)
0534 Padding Bottom {{value}} string Value in pixels (e.g. 25px)
0540 Hide on mobile boolean true | false
0595 Name {{value}} string Icon Name
0596 Alternate Text {{value}} string Icon Alternate text
0597 Image Url string Icon Url
0598 Icon spacing {{value}} string Value in pixels (e.g. 0 0 5px 15px)
0599 Align {{value}} string left | right | center
0600 Dynamic content dropped module
0601 Dynamic content dragged module
0602 Dynamic content deleted module
0603 Dynamic content duplicated module
0604 Dynamic content changed string value
0640 Hide on mobile boolean true | false
0700 HTML dropped module
0701 HTML dragged module
0702 HTML deleted module
0703 HTML duplicated module
0740 Hide on mobile boolean true | false
0780 HTML edited string HTML
0800 Video dropped module
0801 Video dragged module
0802 Video deleted module
0803 Video duplicated module
0830 Padding Add sides {{value}} string Value in pixels (e.g. 25px)
0831 Padding Left {{value}} string Value in pixels (e.g. 25px)
0832 Padding Right {{value}} string Value in pixels (e.g. 25px)
0833 Padding Top {{value}} string Value in pixels (e.g. 25px)
0834 Padding Bottom {{value}} string Value in pixels (e.g. 25px)
0840 Hide on mobile boolean true | false
0841 Video url string Video Url
0842 Play icon type {{value}} string

Play icon type (e.g. Round outline)

0843 Play icon color {{value}} string light | dark
0844 Play icon size {{value}} string Value in pixels (e.g. 25px)
1400 Row dropped row
1401 Row dragged row
1402 Row deleted row
1403 Row duplicated row
1410 Content background color {{value}} string Hex Color Code (e.g. #FFFFFF)
1411 Do not stack on mobile boolean true | false
1412 Row background image string Image path
1413 Center boolean true | false
1414 Repeat boolean true | false
1415 Full width boolean true | false
1416 Display Condition object Display condition object
1417 Reverse stack order on mobile boolean true | false
1430 Padding Add sides {{value}} string Value in pixels (e.g. 25px)
1431 Padding Left {{value}} string Value in pixels (e.g. 25px)
1432 Padding Right {{value}} string Value in pixels (e.g. 25px)
1433 Padding Top {{value}} string Value in pixels (e.g. 25px)
1434 Padding Bottom {{value}} string Value in pixels (e.g. 25px)
1474 Background color {{value}} string Hex Color Code (e.g. #FFFFFF)
1481 Border Add sides {{value}} string Value in pixels | Border Style | Hex color 1px solid #C7702E
1482 Border Left {{value}} string Value in pixels | Border Style | Hex color 1px solid #C7702E
1483 Border Right {{value}} string Value in pixels | Border Style | Hex color 1px solid #C7702E
1484 Border Top {{value}} string Value in pixels | Border Style | Hex color 1px solid #C7702E
1485 Border Bottom {{value}} string Value in pixels | Border Style | Hex color 1px solid #C7702E
1625 Content area width {{value}} string Value in pixels (e.g. 25px)
1626 Background color {{value}} string Hex Color Code (e.g. #FFFFFF)
1627 Content area background color: {{value}} string Hex Color Code (e.g. #FFFFFF)
1628 Default font string Font
1529 Link color {{value}} string Hex Color Code (e.g. #FFFFFF)
1605 Message opened page JSON template
1609 Message restored (e.g. undo or redo history) page JSON template
13130 Button Font Weight string
14128 Row Background Video string Video URL
22130 Paragraph Font Weight string Font Weight value