Can I link something to the Web Version of my email?

[Tom_Kerlin2]

Hi all,

Is it possible to link something to a web version of my email with a URL that does not have the additional tracking code? I sent myself a sample test and tried to take the following URL from the text version of my email (excluding the mkt_tok munchkin tracking code):

However, whenever I try to open in another window, the following message appears:

Is it possible to use a generic View as a Web Page URL, and to successfully use it as a link in an article that's stored outside Marketo (Ex: an article stored on our website)?

Thanks,

Tom

[Nik_Crosina]

I got this to work QUICKLY and as an EMERGENCY solution only by copying the weblink via a right click on a TEST SEND of the email.

We had the Mrketing director request a link to an email to customers that he could share in messages on linkedIn.

It looks uglhy, but because it contains the tokens correctly the link will work. I just hopoe that Marketo does not have any mechanisms built in to prevent it from working when it doscovers the the same token string / URL parameters are being used within a whole global region ?!!

It sometimes is too smart for its own good!!

And not hackable enough, wihtout being the Marketo super-expert

[Munlawin]

Like you, had to get an emergency link up and your method worked!

[Grégoire_Miche2]

Hi Tom,

Do do this, you will have to replace the Marketo View as web page mechanisms. This is the way to do it:

1. Deactivate the default in admin->email (replace the default values here is HTML comments:
   
2. avoid using the {{system.viewaswebpage}} token in your email and have your web page URL instead.

-Greg

[Tom_Kerlin2]

Thanks Greg,

What would happen if I just removed the following from existing code (below): mkt_tok=##MKT_TOK## ?

<div style="text-align: center"><font face="Verdana" size="1">To view this email as a web page, <a href="%mkt_webview_url%?mkt_tok=##MKT_TOK##">click here</a><br /><br /></font></div>

[SanfordWhiteman · Accepted solution]

Then you'll just get an error as the mkt_tok is used to find the email content.

If you want to "burn" a copy of Web Page View to a URL w/out a query string, you can use ShareMaker, but what's the specific reason you want to eliminate the query string? If you create a dummy lead to represent the shareable web view, you can use its mkt_tok and not get in anybody else's way.

[Rachit_Puri2]

Is this still active? Can you help me understand how we can use the Sharemaker app?

[SanfordWhiteman]

It is still active, Rachit (though not in wide use, to put it lightly!). Are you thinking of using it for social sharing?

[Rachit_Puri2]

No, we want to create a non-tokenised version of the page which we get when we click the 'View as web page' link in the emails.

[SanfordWhiteman]

You mean that no one will get the mkt_tok-enized version?

[Rachit_Puri2]

Yes. Do you think we can do that with the app? Or should we go with the approach of generating the email for a dummy lead, and use that link. I feel it may not be a safe option since it could impact the tracking of the user who clicked on this tokenized links. What do you think?

[SanfordWhiteman]

You can definitely do it with ShareMaker (that's what it's for). Just wanted to check b/c if you can do something without an app, all the better.

If you send me an email (non-sample) from your Marketo instance, I can show how to make ShareMaker links for your environment.

[Shelby_Heath]

I'm curious about ShareMaker. I put my email into the form on this page but haven't received anything yet. 

Thanks!

[SanfordWhiteman]

Hi Shelby,

Embarrassed to say that page is dormant -- so dormant that I can't even get signup notifications for it (I wish I could but, long technical story, I can't). 

The ShareMaker service is still running, though, and even though there was ~0 interest, I have no plan to turn it off.

If you zap me an email via my contact page (see my blog) I'll talk to you more about it. I am technically on vacation, though, so it'll have to be Monday.

[Dan_Stevens_]

Sandy, can you provide more info on ShareMaker?  We're building out a pseudo email repository and would like to provide web versions of the emails for our country marketers to view.  Would this support a use-case like this?

[SanfordWhiteman]

Sorry for the wait, Dan...

SM is a very niche microservice: you pass it a web view URL (w/the usual mkt_tok) and it burns a static HTML page -- basically an instant LP -- from that. Then depending on some query params, it either redirects you to a Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn social share dialog with the burned page URL pre-filled and ready to share, or redirects you to the burned page itself.

I didn't really conceive of it as a tool to directly be run by admins (as opposed to by leads that want to socialize your content), though certainly if you send an email or alert to yourself, you can freely run it.  The burned page URLs are totally independent, though -- that is, there's no sense of an online library of all the pages burned under your API key. Something I've thought of for sure. But right now you'd need to burn a copy and then share the URL yourself in a central location.

On the other hand, the ShareMaker "infrastructure" (it's very simple) is probably due to be folded into FlowBoost as a Pro feature, rather than being something standalone to maintain.