Content: New Content: Text Message

Content: New/Edit Content: Text Message

For a step-by-step guide to making content, see Creating Content -- Overview.

Text Message

The plain-text contents of this message.

Text copied and pasted from word processing programs such as Word may include extra characters, so it should be pasted into a plain-text editor first before being copied into the Text Message box.

If your content also includes an HTML message, your message will be sent out with both text and HTML. This kind of message is called multipart-alternative format, and it ensures that recipients who can read HTML see only HTML, but those who can't see the plain text message.

Additional message header and footer information may be added to the message if enabled in Utilities: List Settings: Web Created Content: Insert Headers and Footers.

Show Less

When visible, click to decrease by ten the number of lines visible in the message body.

Click to increase by ten the number of lines visible in the message body.

Import File

Click to import a text file into your text message body. Only text files may be imported. Note: import file should not be used to attach documents to the message; use New Attachment.

Insert Field

Insert Field gives you the option to insert:

Mail merge fields (e.g., email address, first name)

Database fields

Email unsubscribe instructions

Autoresponder addresses

Template fields

Insert URL

Insert URL gives you the option to insert:

A single clickthrough tracking URL

A URL to confirm membership (used in a confirmation document)

Unsubscribe URL

Member profile URL

Survey URL

Referral form URL

The URL to a web page to insert (web fetch)

URL to media to play (e.g., a sound or a video clip) in the message

Insert Condition

Insert Condition lets you insert conditional (dynamic) content, so that recipients who have a certain characteristic receive a certain message, and others another.

Track All URLs

When clicked, makes all URLs in the content clickthrough tracking URLs. All URLs may also be made tracking URLs automatically if Utilities: List Settings: Web Created Content: Automatically Track All URLs When Creating Content is set to yes.

Track All URLs will correctly encode URLs that contain these short mail merge tags: %%messageid%% and %%memberidchar%%.

Tools

The tools button lets you:

Convert text to HTML, HTML to text or create AOL-compliant HTML

Validate URLs, and check for scripts, including those AOL-incompatible

Reformat text to be word-wrapped, or to make the HTML section AOL-compliant

Learn about saving and testing content.

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