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Asked: 2026-06-14T01:11:13+00:00

I need to send out emails. I iterate through a dataset to obtain the

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I need to send out emails. I iterate through a dataset to obtain the email addresses and other information which is included in the email body.

I prefer the emails to be plain text. My issue is that I can’t figure out how to insert line feeds, so that the information is laid out in a legible manner.

I have tried this:

<email-to address="{$overdue_releases.req_email}"/>

<subject value="OVERDUE ITEMS NOTIFICATION"/>

<body value="This is a notification that you have the following overdue items:{$var.newline}"/>
<body value="-----------------------------------------------------------------{$var.newline}"/>
<body value="{$var.newline}"/>
<body value="Borrower: {$overdue_releases.req_name}{$var.newline}"/>
<body value="Phone: {$overdue_releases.req_phone}{$var.newline}"/>
<body value="Equipment item: {$overdue_releases.eqm_name} - {$overdue_releases.itm_identification}{$var.newline}"/> 
<body value="Date borrowed: {$overdue_releases.rel_date_pickedup}{$var.newline}"/>  
<body value="-----------------------------------------------------------------{$var.newline}"/>  
<body value="Please return the overdue item(s) as AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.{$var.newline}"/>  
<body value="-----------------------------------------------------------------{$var.newline}"/>

The newline variable was set as & # 10 ; & # 13; (show with spaces so it will display here)

This is not working. The email is simply a concatenation of all the body value tags in one continuous line.

I have also tried to output the email as html and use the characters “<br>” (in hash, ampersand, ascii char format) for the newline variable. This was a failure.

I have not been able to find anything in the doco.

Will I need to resort to creating a txt format JasperReport to attach to an email, or is there a way to insert linefeed and/or markup characters in the email body?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Try using just a single body tag. Either &#10; or just actual new lines in the string should work.

    <body value="This is a notification that you have the following overdue items:
-----------------------------------------------------------------

Borrower: {$overdue_releases.req_name}
Phone: {$overdue_releases.req_phone}
Equipment item: {$overdue_releases.eqm_name} - {$overdue_releases.itm_identification}
Date borrowed: {$overdue_releases.rel_date_pickedup}
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Please return the overdue item(s) as AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
---------------------------------------------------------------"/>

    See also this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/2012277/1164143. It is suggested that the best (i.e., most correct or most portable) method is to use plain/literal new lines. However encoded new lines (&#10;, &#10;&#13;) work fine in Aviarc.

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