Snippets and losing the capability to add URL parameters to links

[Nate_Oosterhous]

Is there anyway around losing the capability to add URL parameters to links within snippets?  Snippets are great and all but I seem to lose the ability to do this?  We add URL parameters to all of our email links so that in Google Analytics we can know where traffic is coming from and for other tracking purposes.

[Josh_Hill13]

Why wouldn't you be able to do this? It's not dynamic if that's what you mean?

[Nate_Oosterhous]

Hi Josh,

We originally wanted to create one footer snippet to be used in all of our emails but it sounds like we will just have to create that snippet each time we create an email correct?  This way we can have our URL parameters in the link?  Do people typically do it that way?

Thanks

[Josh_Hill13]

ah, I see.

If you want to modify the footer based on email or country or something, then a snippet will be fine. The challenge is if you want to modify the URL params on the snippet, you can try a few things:

• set the url params once in the snippet...but this doesnt solve the problem
• if you must set new params for every email, you can tokenize this at the program or folder level and make the change for each program.

[Nate_Oosterhous]

A token will not work for the functionality we need.  A snippet can only accomplish it.  Do people typically create many snippets as we would create one for each email?