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Hi,
i will use the below two examples to explain my problem.. pleases help me out..

1) <a href="[agnDB column="data3"]">testlink</a>
2)<a href="www.google.com">testlink</a>

I have a requirement for getting the href value from db in HTML-Version template as shown in first option, this is perfectly working but its not creating the track able link.. its directly shows as http://www.google.com when we place the mouse over the testlink. But when in used the second option by hardcoding the href value its generating the trackbale link as redirect which is perfect. I want to generate the same link using option1.

Any help in this regard is highly appreciable.
Thanks in advance.

Hello ideology,

the openemm need a part of the link in the html-content of the mailing to create a trackable link.

For example:
You have somelinks, to your website, but different pages for each targetgroup.
Your baselink: http://www.yourwebsite.com/
and some special sites: ...targetgroup1.html; ...targetgroup2.html; ...default_target.html

Now you are able to use the links in the html-code:
<a href="http://www.yourwebsite.com/targetgroup1.html">Link</a>

You could define the special targets for each recipient in the database-field ("data3") now.
And insert this information into the link (choose: ##database_field_name##):
<a href="http://www.yourwebsite.com/##data3##">Link</a>

And now use this in your html-code of the newsletter. The Links are trackable!
If you use [agnDB column=...] the link will not be trackable, use this to display the DB-Field in the textpart:
<a href="http://www.yourwebsite.com/##data3##">[agnDB column="data3"]</a>

(Only ##data## in the "a href" did not work, you need a little part of your link in the code.)

I hope this help you to solve the problem.

Kind regars,
Markus

Hi Hoffman,

very thanks for the reply, but I have the requirement for dynamic url. The url link is dynamic mean it can be www.yahoo.com or www.google.com etc based on the column value. Can you guide me if there is a way to achieve the dynamic url as trackable.


thanks

Hi guys!

I have the same problem. Is there any workaround?

Thanks!