diff --git a/server/lib/tools.js b/server/lib/tools.js
index 4379f136..89d40c30 100644
--- a/server/lib/tools.js
+++ b/server/lib/tools.js
@@ -168,6 +168,8 @@ function _formatTemplateSimple(source, mergeTags, isHTML) {
 
         if (value === undefined) { // in RSS it may happen that the key is present, but the value is undefined
             return '';
+        } else {
+            return value;
         }
 
      //   const containsHTML = /<[a-z][\s\S]*>/.test(value);
@@ -175,6 +177,7 @@ function _formatTemplateSimple(source, mergeTags, isHTML) {
      //       useNamedReferences: true,
      //       allowUnsafeSymbols: true
      //   }) : (containsHTML ? htmlToText.fromString(value) : value);
+        
     };
 
     return source.replace(/\[([a-z0-9_.]+)(?:\/([^\]]+))?\]/ig, (match, identifier, fallback) => {