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Grégoire_Miche2
Grégoire_Miche2
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March 28, 2017
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Velocity token: traceable links fail, but work if non traceable

  • March 28, 2017
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Dear all,

we have the following code in a velocity token:

#set($downloadLink={

  "BPDCS":{

  "title":"BPD Case Study",

  "link":"infos.inficiences.com/rs/593-IYJ-660/images/Inficiencespartners-casestudy-bpd-digitalisation-marketing-systeme-information-marketing-commercial.pdf"

  },

  "DACS":{

  "title":"Deny All Case Study",

  "link":"infos.inficiences.com/rs/593-IYJ-660/images/Inficiencespartners-casestudy-denyall-marketing-automation.pdf"

  },

    "IVCS":{

  "title":"Infovista Case Study",

  "link":"infos.inficiences.com/rs/593-IYJ-660/images/Inficiencespartners-casestudy-infovista-systeme-information-marketing.pdf"

  },

  "EBSCS":{

  "title":"ESSEC Case Study",

  "link":"infos.inficiences.com/rs/593-IYJ-660/images/Inficiencespartners-casestudy-essec-conception-deploiement-strategie-acquisition-nurturing.pdf"

  },

  "KDSCS":{

  "title":"KDS Case Study",

  "link":"infos.inficiences.com/rs/593-IYJ-660/images/Inficiencespartners-casestudy-kds-nouvelles-pratiques-generation-demande-automatisee.pdf"

  }

})

<ul>

#foreach ($key in $lead.downloadcenter.split("[;]"))

#set ($key = ${key.trim()})

      <li><a href="${downloadLink.get($key).link}" target="_blank" class="mktNoTrack">$downloadLink.get($key).title</a></li>

#end

</ul>

It works well. But if we remove the class="mktNoTrack" from the <a> tag, the links generated raise a DNS error:

any hint ?

-Greg

2 replies

Steven_Vanderb3
Steven_Vanderb3
New Participant
March 29, 2017

Are you following what's at the bottom of this doc? http://developers.marketo.com/email-scripting/   Link tracking doesn't work in a foreach loop which I think is what you have your links printing in if I'm reading it correctly.

SanfordWhiteman
SanfordWhiteman
New Participant
March 29, 2017

AFAIK not so much the #foreach as the final output containing multiple links and wrapping in <li>s (that's why I asked Greg to reduce it to 1).

This is known behavior that I posted a workaround for before...

Grégoire_Miche2
Grégoire_Miche2Author
New Participant
March 29, 2017

Hi Sanford,

I do not know what would be the outcome if we changed the code, but if we select only 1 doc in the form, we get only 1 <a> and it still breaks. But it still goes through the loop.

My velocity skills are not good enough to be able to change the code so that only the first value is used outside of the look.

-Greg

SanfordWhiteman
SanfordWhiteman
New Participant
March 29, 2017

Let's reduce the problem surface. Does this happen if only a single <a> is output?

Grégoire_Miche2
Grégoire_Miche2Author
New Participant
March 29, 2017

Hi Sanford,

<a href="${downloadLink.get($key).link}" target="_blank">$downloadLink.get($key).title</a>

Will raise the error, showing that the ${downloadLink.get($key).link} is apparently not resolved in the script. I also have tried to add a dummy class (class="whatever"), but the error remains.

<a href="${downloadLink.get($key).link}" target="_blank" class="mktNoTrack">$downloadLink.get($key).title</a>

Works perfectly well.

${downloadLink.get($key).link}

Works well, displaying the plain URL in the email.

I have set up a test program that can be fired here: Download Center Test-inficiences the email will have the 3 links

This seems to me like a bug.

-Greg

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