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4/9/2012 4:43:37 PM
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Newsletter unsubscribe - in preview?

I'm creating a newsletter for the first time im a site, and trying it out with the "Send Preview" function. I have added an unsubscribe link with this specific html:

<p>Not interested in these newsletters? #unsubscribe#</p> </body> </html>

However, in the test preview email this just comes out as

"Not interested in these newsletters? #unsubscribe#"

Have I done something wrong?

4/9/2012 5:17:47 PM
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Re: Newsletter unsubscribe - in preview?

No, you didn't do anything wrong. That's the way the preview works. The tokens aren't replaced for the preview message.

HTH,
Joe D.

4/12/2012 2:01:26 PM
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Re: Newsletter unsubscribe - in preview?

Thanks Joe, and I can confirm it worked fine in the real release. Maybe I'll turn this into a feature request, because I feel it would be useful to preview the results of the token replacements in the preview message (and I would also like a load more tokens for profile attributes!).

4/12/2012 2:15:11 PM
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Re: Newsletter unsubscribe - in preview?

The preview is for people editing it to see what it will look like they should know what the tokens are for. There is not going to be token replacement in the preview because it is not sent to a subscriber, it is sent to an arbitrary email entered by the user, and expected to be the email of the person who is editing it.

I'd like to add more token replacement at some point but there are problems to be solved such as the fact that people can subscribe without registering on the site by just entering their email address and nothing more. Probably never going to add token replacement for custom profile fields even if we do manage to solve the problem with adding a few more token replacements, it will be just core properties like FirstName and LastName (which have fields in the mp_Users table so they are core fields even though they are not enabled by default in mojoProfile.config). It is going to be a difficult problem to solve because people have existing subscribers without anything to replace additional tokens with.

Best,

Joe

4/12/2012 2:24:25 PM
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Re: Newsletter unsubscribe - in preview?

OK I see what you mean about the tokens in the preview - I was really speaking as a newbie to this, and I don't think the documentation mentioned that the preview would leave tokens in place.

Tokens for all core profile attributes would be a great step forward.

While I have your ear, another minor tweak would be that if you click the btn to make plain text content before saving your updated newletter content, the plain text version is created using the last saved version - perhaps a save could be built into that button, because it is impossible that the user would intend anything else.

4/13/2012 10:19:19 AM
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Re: Newsletter unsubscribe - in preview?

While I have your ear, another minor tweak would be that if you click the btn to make plain text content before saving your updated newletter content, the plain text version is created using the last saved version - perhaps a save could be built into that button, because it is impossible that the user would intend anything else.

I agree, I'll fix that so it gets the latest text from the html editor instead of the previous saved version.

Best,

Joe

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