Email Template Variable Breaking Link Tracking

nhabischWings
Level 3

Email Template Variable Breaking Link Tracking

Hello all, here with a (probably) basic question. Our email template(s) are setup using variables for better styling control, but in a certain case I think it may be breaking the tracking of URLs pulled from Custom Fields.
Here's code for reference:

 <!--Button Only Section Variables-->
 <meta class="mktoList" id="buttonLocation" mktoName="Button Location" values="center,left,right">
 <meta class="mktoList" id="buttoncolor" mktoName="Background Color" values="#0072CE,#003087">
 <meta class="mktoList" id="buttonbordercolor" mktoName="Border Color" values="#0072CE,#003087">
 <meta class="mktoList" id="buttontextcolor" mktoName="Text Color" values="#ffffff" />
 <meta class="mktoString" id="buttonLink" mktoName="Button Link" default="">
 <meta class="mktoString" id="buttonText" mktoName="Button Text" default="Click Here">


<!-- ====================Button Only In-Template Code=========================== -->
<tr id="buttonOnly" mktoName="Button" class="mktoModule"><td>
              <!--[if mso | IE]>
            <tr>
              <td class="" width="600px">
      <table
         align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="" style="width:600px;" width="600">
        <tr>
          <td style="line-height:0px;font-size:0px;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;">
      <![endif]-->
              <div style="margin:0px auto;max-width:600px;">
                <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width:100%;">
                  <tbody>
                    <tr>
                      <td style="direction:ltr;font-size:0px;padding:5px 20px;text-align:center;">
                        <!--[if mso | IE]>
                  <table role="presentation" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">

        <tr>
            <td class="" style="vertical-align:top;width:560px;">
          <![endif]-->
                        <div class="mj-column-per-100 mj-outlook-group-fix" style="font-size:0px;text-align:left;direction:ltr;display:inline-block;vertical-align:top;width:100%;">
                          <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="vertical-align:top;" width="100%">
                            <tr>
                              <td align="${buttonLocation}" style="font-size:0px;padding:10px 25px;word-break:break-word;">
                                <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="border-collapse:separate;line-height:100%;">
                                  <tr>
                                    <td align="center" bgcolor="${buttoncolor}" role="presentation" style="border:2px solid ${buttonbordercolor};border-radius:15px 0;cursor:auto;mso-padding-alt:17px 30px;background:${buttoncolor};" valign="middle">
                                      <a href="https://${buttonLink}" style="display:inline-block;background:${buttoncolor};color:${buttontextcolor};font-family: 'Montserrat', 'sans-serif';font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;line-height:120%;margin:0;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none;padding:12px 20px;mso-padding-alt:0px;border-radius:15px 0;" target="_blank">${buttonText} <img style="vertical-align:middle;" src="http://pages.WingsFinancial.com/rs/324-LYF-114/images/icon-btn-right-arrow.png" /> </a>
                                    </td>
                                  </tr>
                                </table>
                              </td>
                            </tr>
                          </table>
                        </div><!--[if mso | IE]>
            </td>
        </tr>
                  </table>
                <![endif]-->
                      </td>
                    </tr>
                  </tbody>
                </table>
              </div><!--[if mso | IE]>
          </td>
        </tr>
      </table>
              </td>
            </tr>
          <![endif]-->
        </td>  </tr>
<!-- ====================End Button Only=========================== -->

So you'll notice the HREF tag is href="https://${buttonLink}" and if I used a custom field URL with the correct usage per (Creating trackable links even when a token include... - Marketing Nation (marketo.com)) it should appear like this href="https://{{lead.Consumer Loans - Survey Link for New Auto Loan}}" and should be trackable?

Am I missing something silly?