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HaroonRa
Level 3
Oct 3, 2019 3:51 PM UTC
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Dynamic links custom objects breaking

Hi,

Links are breaking when trying to pull from custom object, the code is within a FOR LOOP - for testing purposes I have reduced the code. Anyone have any ideas why the links are breaking?

Working URL outside FOR/IF LOOP, pulling link from custom object(DynamicCustomObjectList) : ${DynamicCustomObjectList.get(1).URL_1}

Links not working when inside FOR loop:

#foreach( $co_record in $DynamicCustomObjectList)
   <a href="https://${co_record.URL_1}">CLICK ME</a>
<br>
   <a href="https://uk.website.com/${co_record.URL_1}">CLICK ME TO</a>
<br>
   <a href="https://$co_record.URL_1">CLICK ME AGAIN</a>

#end

Output link break: https://%24%7Bco_record.url_1%7D/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTkRoak5qTTNNREl6WVRaaSIsInQiOiJDVVwvZmlrSWpzUEgrdjlYV2VvMENHME5PZG0xcThHQVd3TEp4Y3l4WEJERXUrMlwvTUQ0TjdqNGE1WTNGa1RPUUgwbDh2VFlKeWc5dTdRMEM3YXRPZFd2VlVyUGlPSE4zc25WRCtiQThjWHg4b1FzcFB0b2VRUStsMjVwZVBlTGVvIn0%3D

The code is in an email script token, which then is added to a snippet and from that called into an email.

Thanks,

Haroon

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HaroonRaAuthor
Level 3
Oct 3, 2019 4:22 PM UTC

At the moment I'm not totally comfortable with Velocity scripting.

Is it possible to help with the example code provided?

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SanfordWhiteman
SanfordWhiteman
Level 10
Oct 4, 2019 2:56 AM UTC
#foreach( $co_record in $DynamicCustomObjectList )
#set( $currentURLNoProto = $co_record.URL_1 )
#foreach( $link in [1..3] )
#evaluate( "${esc.h}set( ${esc.d}URL_${foreach.parent.count}_${foreach.count} = ${esc.d}currentURLNoProto )" )
#end
#end
#if( $URL_1_1 )
<a href="https://${URL_1_1}">CLICK ME</a>
#end
#if( $URL_1_2 )
<a href="https://uk.website.com/${URL_1_2}">CLICK ME TOO</a>
#end
#if( $URL_1_3 )
<a href="https://${URL_1_3}">CLICK ME AGAIN</a>
#end
#if( $URL_2_1 )
<a href="https://${URL_2_1}">CLICK ME</a>
#end
#if( $URL_2_2 )
<a href="https://uk.website.com/${URL_2_2}">CLICK ME TOO</a>
#end
#if( $URL_2_3 )
<a href="https://${URL_2_3}">CLICK ME AGAIN</a>
#end‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

As noted in the blog post, because of Marketo's peculiarities when introspecting the data for links, you must preallocate individual variables (not properties) for each possible link.

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    HaroonRaAuthor
    Level 3
    Oct 4, 2019 9:55 AM UTC

    Thanks Sanford! That helped loads.

    There is a little issue, I have six links in the custom object to pick up but the code above only pulling the same link for each.

     ##set($co_record.URL_1 = $DynamicCustomObjectList.URL_1)
    ##set($co_record.URL_2 = $DynamicCustomObjectList.URL_2)
    ##set($co_record.URL_3 = $DynamicCustomObjectList.URL_3)
    ##set($co_record.URL_4 = $DynamicCustomObjectList.URL_4)
    ##set($co_record.URL_5 = $DynamicCustomObjectList.URL_5)
    ##set($co_record.URL_6 = $DynamicCustomObjectList.URL_6)

    Is there a way to pull each link?

    Thanks again,

    Haroon

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    SanfordWhiteman
    SanfordWhiteman
    Level 10
    Oct 3, 2019 4:04 PM UTC

    Have you read Multiple Marketo-tracked links in Velocity ?

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