Accessing a CCK field in Simplenews

This seems to be a site building issue, I think you need the Display Suite module.

Well I still don't think this is a Mime Mail issue.

You need to customize the simplenews-newsletter-body.tpl.php. If you set up either supported view modes (email_plain, email_html, email_textalt) the $build variable will contain also your custom fields.

  print render($build['field_newsletter_announcements']) 

Moving issue to the right place.

I had been trying to do the exact same thing here and was stumped. Turns out I was just being an idiot, and finding this thread saved me. Thank you so much.

Thanks for posting this. I have found it very helpful.
I can access custom cck fields with:

  print render($build['field_bottom_line'])

Does anyone know how to just access field values without the labels?
I printed out the $build data with:

print_r($build['node'];

and I have tried several variations of this:

$build['field_bottom_line']['und'][0]['value'];

I have used

$build->field_bottom_line['und'][0]['value'];

both with print_r, echo, render etc...

Any one figured out how to do this?

Ok. I think I finally figured it out:
print $build['field_bottom_line']['#items'][0]['value']
gets me the actual field value.

Now all I am stuck on is how to get the created date/time and the author name. It seems like they should be:

$build['name']
$build['created']

but neither of those work.

How do I hide fields from

print render($build);

so that I can display them separately from the overall render build?

Something like hide($content['field_myfield']); doesn't seem to work.

thanks!

Did you try?

hide($build['field_myfield'])

Instead of using $content['field_myfield']

Yes, I did.

I'd like to access a field to display as a link inside the mail.tpl template inside the href="..". I've tried print render($build['field_link_mail']) "> but is not working. ANy idea how to do it?

@dagoodgamez:
You could try
<?php print $build['my_field_machine_name']['#items'][0]['value'] ?>

Edit:
The above code didn't work for me on production site. This is my solution now:
<?php print render($build['my_field_machine_name']) ?>

Thanks to all for the very helpful advice!

In my template, I replaced: <?php print render($build); ?> (which printed all the fields in the node)

With:

<?php print render($build['field_image']); ?>
<?php print render($build['field_appdate']); ?>
<?php print render($build['body']); ?>

And I was able to only have the 3 CCK fields in my newsletter.

I know this is basically duplicated information. But, sometimes, it helps to have multiple examples (for me, at least).

Thanks again!