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Link usage within Catalogs
Hi everybody!
When using links that are generated from Catalogs, has anybody ever worked with link aliasing/utm tagging? It seems that the email drag & drop editor won't recognize the link in the "link management" section.
- alextoh1Practitioner
I use URLs in catalogs too. You need to hardcode the utm tags in the catalog URLs.
- gaiadm_Active Member
Yes I do that too. It would be useful to have another solution though, in case you'would need different parameters only for one campaign for example, or in ab testing
- davidkuncActive Member
Have you tried pulling only a part of the url that's dynamic out of the catalog? Something like https://{{item[0].linkPart}}. Wonder if that could help work around your issue.
- gaiadm_Active Member
It doesn't seem to work unfortunatly
- DRamirezPractitioner III
In addition, this is what I get as message:
- AllanHeoStrategist
There's actually a lot of discussions around this in Email Geeks, but it would be great to nail it down here as well! People have tried various things to get this working.
- raygeeActive Member
We manage our URL's and UTM components separately to do this.
The base URL is defined in the workspace-specific email header, main URL comes via a Catalog, and the UTM is defined in a variable in the email header, which the team can change per campaign or template in a Canvas, depending on requirements.
We tie these together by bringing the variables together in the template/content block. E.g.: {{websiteBaseURL}}/{{item[0].linkURL | strip}}{{campaignUTM | strip | escape}}
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