guys
I'm trying to create e good html code for my newsletter. I've checked a lot of best practice but I cannot find the right tips for me.
You know: email client on mobile show the first two or three lines in the code... and due the first line is always "If you can't read this email, please click on..." etc.
I'd like to know is there's a tag or a way to choose another text to show up on the email preview when received by my customers. (of course, without changing the first line referring to the web version of the email)
Thanks a lot!
This is called a preheader. You would simply put that content before your 'webversion' link in your html email.
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I hate to do this, but I have the same question as the following link: Visio 2010 using a page name in mailto link
I have attempted to use the answer given but all I'm getting is PAGENAME() in the subject field of the generated email. My Visio file is rendered to a html file where this link will be used.
I'd have added a comment to avoid creating a new question but don't have enough Rep to follow up on the comments there.
If anyone can give me a pointer, that'd be great. The line I have at the moment is
>
mailto:my.email#email.com&Subject=PAGENAME()&Body=Text...
Okay, looks like I've worked this one out.
I needed to right click the object & head in to the "Show ShapeSheets" window.
Once in here, adjust the 'Hyperlinks' entry: In the 'ExtraInfo' box change:
="subject=PAGENAME()"
to
="subject="&PAGENAME()
Logical when you look at it.
I do have the problem now that when Visio renders the html files, it doesn't use the foreground PAGENAME() in the same way was when you insert PAGENAME() into an object. The email title is always the background name & not the foreground.
I doubt there'll be a way of resolving that one, but glad I got to see it in action.
This is a rather simple question, but I cannot find documentation about it from Salesforce.
I am setting up an HTML Newsletter from Salesforce Vertical Response, and I need to put a link in the body of the email that goes to another site which takes the user's email address as a query string. I am doing this so that when the user clicks the link from the HTML email, they will automatically be signed up for a different blog mailing list.
The link will look like this www.mywebsite.com/blog/subscribe?email=your_email#email.com.
I can easily accomplish this by using the {EMAIL_ADDRESS} variable, such that the link looks like this:
Subsribe
This workds, but when the user gets the email and clicks the link, the '#' symbol gets stripped from the URL. Now I'm trying to figure out how to get around this. I saw some documentation on the URLENCODE() function for SalesForce, but when I try to use it in the HTML email editor in SalesForce, like URLENCODE({EMAIL_ADDRESS})it doesn't execute it, and instead interprets it literally as text. Can anyone help me? is it even possible to use functions from within the SalesForce HTML email editor?
Thanks
I havent used VerticalResponse, but if it leans on salesforce communication templates then you can always create an email template as Visualforce page. Then you can apply Encode functions to merge fields.
I'm glad you were able to find a workaround. If you ever go back to dealing with the URL, it's a good idea to disable our click-tracking when working with merge fields. This can be accomplished by adding nr_ before the http. Example: Subsribe - If you ever try that and it doesn't work, or if you have any other questions, please let us know via one of our Support channels:
support#verticalresponse.com
866-683-7842 x1
We also have live chat available: http://help.verticalresponse.com/
Regards,
Keith Gluck
VerticalResponse Customer Support
I have created an html form with text boxes and radio buttons ect.
I can email the form to an email address.
now the problem, when i fill in the form and click reply, i only get my blank html form back no values were left inside the textbox's.
Please help
We did some fairly extensive research about HTML forms in emails for a client of ours. The bottom line is that it barely works, so it’s best to link to a form in a browser.
What Quentin said holds water, many email clients (cough, outlook) are very specific in regards to their support for HTML emails. In fact most don't even support div's or embedded <style> blocks. Let alone an HTML form.
Your best bet is to use a URL that they click on, which in-turn opens up a form for them to fill out. If you need to capture some of their information automatically (such as email). you can generate query strings and in your mailer have it add the information in dynamicallly..
i.e; <a href="http://awesomeform.com/form.php?email=$client_email">
In email it would look like: http://awesomeform.com/form.php?email=myemail#email.com
Either way
If you are insistent on attempting this, use the email boilerplate to get you started. It has a ton of "best practices" and tips/tricks built right into it.
http://htmlemailboilerplate.com/
Complex HTML doesn't mix with many email clients. Forms are especially poorly supported.
Link to an HTML document available over HTTP instead. People can click a link and open it in a regular web browser.
I'm trying to use an html email signature that pulls the html from another site. So, imagine I have the html hosted at blahblah.com/blah.html, and blah.html is:
<html>
<body>
Jon Jones
jon#blahblah.com
</body>
</html
And then my html signature would be something like <embed src="blahblah.com/blah.html/> that way I can manipulate the signature without having to constantly change the actual signature in Outlook (which I use to check my email).
I can't figure out any html that will do what I'm trying to do. The embed tag that I posted above doesn't do the trick. What simple line of html can I use to say "display what you find at blahblah.com/blah.html"
I would venture a guess and say this isn't the best way to do this.
From a security standpoint, I wouldn't want to be viewing any email sent by you that also brings in somesite.com/signature.htm. Even if it did, it would invoke a "click to view linked elements in this email" banner, and hide it until I did so (but chances are I'm not clicking).
From a recipient stand point, some spam filters block emails with externally-linked content (your intended recipient may not even get your email, or (best-case) see it with [spam] in the subject line.)
If you want an easy up-keep, you could place the signature in your my documents/some other folder and link to it via outlook's settings, but that about the least intense method (while also not causing concerns or issues to anyone viewing your email.)
It looks like instructions for what you want are here: http://www.emailaddressmanager.com/tips/html-email.html
Under "How to add HTML links in Outlook HTML emails," point to blahblah.com/blah.html
On the other hand, HTML in emails is generally not a great thing because it often isn't very secure (you could send me a page with HTML that would load a virus), so many clients won't be able to recieve it or will flag it as spam.
Please view the page linked below to understand the question.
http://forecast.weather.gov/zipcity.php
How would I go about finding the name of that city/state/zip text input field?
I need to allow a user to enter the city, state or zip into my own text field and then submit that to the above website's form but I don't know how to specify that specific field.
http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=City&state=ST(ate)
http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Tucson&state=AZ
I recommend you download firebug for firefox - it makes analyzing web pages vastly easier. Until then, you'll just have to look through the page source by hand.
But yes, the name of the field is 'inputstring'