Displaying all content (even conditionalized) on "view message in your browser"

Hi Kate,

You're right, the autologin=true parameter doesn't work on MessageViewer links. The email system looks for MessageViewer links and appends the em_id parameter to them, so that the link tells the Convio web server which message to display. But in the process of doing that, the system chops off the autologin=true parameter.

You can get around this by hardcoding the em_id into your MessageViewer link. If you can't find the em_id parameter, it'll be one of the URL parameters in your browser location bar while you're editing the email. You want the link href to look like this (using an example em_id):

<a href="http://www2.stl.unitedway.org/site/MessageViewer?em_id=1234.0&autologin=true">View this message online</a>

Instead of this:

<a href="http://www2.stl.unitedway.org/site/MessageViewer?autologin=true">View this message online</a>

Kate Kromann:

Thanks for the quick reply! That's definitely helpful. However, we have an archive of all our enewsletters online, and so even if I use this solution, a new user (who's not logged in) won't be able to see any of the content, because it's pretty much all conditionalized. So any solutions to that one? :-)

The only real solution to that is to design your messages so that they display some kind of default content if the user isn't logged in. Existing, archived messages can be changed to accommodate that, even though they've already been sent!

Kate Kromann:

Is that the "unknown" box in the conditonal?

In this case, yes, that's the one.