What does View Message in Browser do?

JohnM

On step three of creating an Email campaign, you see the option "Enable web viewing of messages" - What it does is allows the messages you create to be accessed through a browser.  The URLs for the messages will look like this:

site.org/site/MessageViewer?msg_id=xxxx

Where xxxx is the message id assigned by Convio to the message you created.  Any message in a campaign with this setting turned on can be linked to in the WYSIWYG by clicking on the Links drop down and choosing "Email Messages" and then clicking on the email message you would like to link to in the offered list. That is about it - but a couple of tips that you may need, first, if the stationery in the message is the same as your pagewrapper, you probably want to place this parameter on the end of the link URL - &printer_friendly=1 - which will remove the pagewrapper so you don't get a double wrapper (the pagewrapper and the stationery) on the web version of the message.

Another thing that you may want to do (found in this article) is put a conditional around the link that is in the email message to show it in the browser so the link to view in the browser doesn't show when you are looking at the message in the browser - the syntax for the link would be:

]x::View in Browser link::]]]

This just means - Is there a URL? then don't show the link, else show the link.  Which is what you want, because viewing the message anywhere but on Convio will not have a URL that will populate that conditional statement.