Campaign tags and filters
When sending a campaign, you are able to use a number of custom tags and filters.
Most common tags are listed below:
Tag |
Required |
[UNSUBSCRIBE_URL] |
YES |
[COMPANY_FULL_ADDRESS] |
YES |
[UPDATE_PROFILE_URL] |
NO |
[WEB_VERSION_URL] |
NO |
[CAMPAIGN_URL] |
NO |
[LIST_NAME] |
NO |
[LIST_SUBJECT] |
NO |
[LIST_DESCRIPTION] |
NO |
[LIST_FROM_NAME] |
NO |
[CURRENT_YEAR] |
NO |
[CURRENT_MONTH] |
NO |
[CURRENT_DAY] |
NO |
[CURRENT_DATE] |
NO |
[COMPANY_NAME] |
NO |
[COMPANY_ADDRESS_1] |
NO |
[COMPANY_ADDRESS_2] |
NO |
[COMPANY_CITY] |
NO |
[COMPANY_ZONE] |
NO |
[COMPANY_ZIP] |
NO |
[COMPANY_COUNTRY] |
NO |
[COMPANY_PHONE] |
NO |
[CAMPAIGN_SUBJECT] |
NO |
[CAMPAIGN_TO_NAME] |
NO |
[CAMPAIGN_FROM_NAME] |
NO |
[CAMPAIGN_REPLY_TO] |
NO |
[CAMPAIGN_UID] |
NO |
[SUBSCRIBER_UID] |
NO |
[EMAIL] |
NO |
[FNAME] |
NO |
[LNAME] |
NO |
Now, each of the above tags is able to receive a set of filters.
Filters are a simple way of transforming the tag in a way or another, for example you might want to embed a sharing link to twitter in your campaign, say the campaign url itself.
Using only the tags you would embed it like:
https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=[CAMPAIGN_SUBJECT]&url=[CAMPAIGN_URL]
But there is a problem, because twitter expects your arguments to be url encoded, and by that, i mean twitter expects to get
https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=my%20super%20campaign&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.domain.com%2Fcampaigns%2F1cart129djat3
but instead it will get
https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=my super campaign&url=http://www.domain.com/campaigns/1cart129djat3
In order to overcome this issue, we will apply filters over our tags, therefore, the twitter url becomes:
https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=[CAMPAIGN_SUBJECT:filter:urlencode]&url=[CAMPAIGN_URL:filter:urlencode]
Pretty simple eh?
But we can do even more, let's say we want to make sure our twitter text starts with a capitalized letter and the rest of the letters will be lowercase.
In order to accomplish this, we can apply multiple filters(separate by a pipe) to same tag, for example:
https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=[CAMPAIGN_SUBJECT:filter:lowercase|ucfirst|urlencode]&url=[CAMPAIGN_URL:filter:urlencode]
Please note, the order in which you add the filters is the same order they are applied.
Bellow is the entire list of filters, for now there are a few, but in the future the number might increase.
urlencode |
will urlencode your tag |
rawurlencode |
will rawurlencode your url |
htmlencode |
will convert html tags into their entities |
trim |
will trim the white spaces from begining and end of your tag |
uppercase |
will transform your tag in uppercase only chars |
lowercase |
will transform your tag in lowercase only chars |
ucwords |
will capitalize each first letter from your tag content |
ucfirst |
will capitalize only the first letter of your tag |
reverse |
will reverse your tag content |
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