How to set the TellAFriend default subject line and message body via URL arguments

Noah Cooper

The default subject line and message body content in the TellAFriend application are set in what is called the Message Catalog. The default language can by changed by Convio staff, or by an appropriately empowered administrator. In some cases, however, some organizations wish to have a different subject line or message on a page-by-page basis. This is possible using a few URL arguments, like so:

<a href="TellAFriend?tafInfoId=&subject=]&message=]&page=]">TellAFriend</a>

(Note: The T1 tag is used to url-encode the values. See T-Tags.)

Amy Sewell

We're attempting to do this in one of our enewsletters in order to put a custom subject line and URL into the forward to a friend page.  In our e-mail we have the following code:

<a href="http://www.ifcj.org/site/TellAFriend?format=mfc_full_page&tafInfoId=&subject=]&page=]">

However when we test this in outlook it's taking us to an error page saying that page does not exist.  I looked at the code of the email in microsoft office and the html is coming in like this:

<a href="http://www.ifcj.org/site/R?i=a5l7Qj-3PoTiM9L4R_VRjQ.." moreabouttheJewishRootsofChristianity,HighHolydayResourcesNowAvailable]]&page="http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ifcj.org%2Fsite%2FPageNavigator%2Feng%2Finvolved%2FHolyDays&quot;">

Any idea why the URL is being coded incorrectly when it is actually sent?  When I preview the e-mail before sending everything works correctly with this link, but when it goes into Outlook the code is messed up.

Thanks!

Amy