Email Script not populating URL correctly

[ssRD25]

Hello community,

Facing an issue with velocity script, the url variable is not populating correctly & the output is "https://${url}".

If https:// is included in the baseUrl variable, it works, and the URL is populated correctly, but the click link tracking is lost in the activity log.

What could be the issue here & how can it be fixed without losing the click-link tracking?

#set($utm_source="Nurture")
#set($utm_content="WXDWW")
#set($utm_term="20AQR")
#set($utm_id = "utm_id=NewsletterENThink")

#set($baseUrl = "www.abc.com/account/reg/us-en/signup?utm_source=$utm_source&utm_content=$utm_content&utm_term=$utm_term") 

#set($url =$baseUrl+"&" + $utm_id) 

<a style="border-collapse: collapse; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: none; color: hashtag#0f62fe;" href="https://${url}" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Subscribe now </a>

[SanfordWhiteman]

You shouldn’t be building URLs manually in this day and age — you’ll inevitably mess up encoding.

Simply use LinkTool ($link) to build the URL, then output the constant https:// followed by the relevant URL parts:

#set( $signupUrl = $link.uri("https://www.example.com/account/reg/us-en/signup") )
#set( $void = $signupUrl.setParam("utm_source", "Nurture", false) )
#set( $void = $signupUrl.setParam("utm_content", "WXDWW", false) )
#set( $void = $signupUrl.setParam("utm_term", "20AQR", false) )
#set( $void = $signupUrl.setParam("utm_id", "NewsletterENThink", false) )
<a style="border-collapse: collapse; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: none; color: #0f62fe;" 
  href="https://${signupUrl.getHost()}${signupUrl.getPath()}?${signupUrl.getQuery()}" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Subscribe now </a>