How to apply a calendar event .ics link to an image within an email

Forum|Forum|10 years ago
March 26, 2015
12 replies
9094 views

Hi,

I have created a calendar file token to add a calendar event (.ics) link to my Marketo email. This appear as text but how can I apply this feature to an image?

Caroline

This post is no longer active and is closed to new replies. Need help? Start a new post to ask your question.

Best answer by keithnyberg

You can just preview an email with the ICS token added to get the non-unique link for use. When viewing the preview you simply hover over the link to see the link which also allows you to "Copy Link Address". So it's annoying, but a viable workaround. Looks like Marketo generates a unique ID for the ICS token which the URL path references in addition to the value added to the "Title" of the token.

Example
https://subdomain.domain.com/rs/XXX-XXX-XXX/#####/[tokentitle].ics
Where
- XXX-XXX-XXX represents your instances Munchkin ID
- ##### represents the tokens unique ID

I assumed the title was irrelevant but it is required to access the ics file (likely as an extra security measure so people with one event invite can't just guess ID's to see every event).

Show previous replies

Dan_Stevens_

New Participant

Prior to last May's update, you could simply send yourself a sample email, copy the URL of the calendar event and paste that URL onto your image. But since Marketo includes tracking URLs even with sample/test emails, this is no longer possible. A workaround would be to save the calendar event (.ics file) from the sample email (click on it and you should be prompted to either open/save it), upload it to to to the images/files folder in design studio and provide a link to this file (thanks to Dory Viscogliosi for this suggestion).