Calendar File token in an image URL

[RaulEr]

Hi guys!

I created a calendar event file as indicated in the Marketo documentation. And I'm trying to use it inside an Image object but is not working. I tried the preview and a real sample test and is not working at any of those.

Is there a way to use it as a link in an image?

[Darshil_Shah1 · Accepted solution]

I (and a lot of folks I know of) use Sandy's Agical.io solution for linking an ics file. Check out all about it in his blog here. You can create an Agical URL, add it in a custom my token, and use it as the image URL (or maybe directly add the URL in the image asset itself). If you use a token to house the URL, make sure you add the protocol part (https://) in front of the token in the image picker's Link URL field (like https://{{my.agical calender URL}}) instead of adding the protocol in the token itself.

[SanfordWhiteman]

Definitely recommend Agical (of course!) as the superior tool, but if you did want to use the ICS that's automatically created for a Calendar token, you can include the {{my.token}} in an email and send it to yourself, then extract just the href (as Darshil notes, without the "https://") and store that in Text token. Use that Text {{my.token}} in the link.

The Calendar {{my.token}} is an entire <a> tag, not just a URL, which is why you can't nest it inside another <a>.