Creating Templates

ListManager comes with twenty pre-built templates. If you'd like to create and use your own templates, follow these steps.

Creating a Template

1.   In the left Navigation bar, click Content.

2.   Click on New Content. You'll be taken to the Content: New Content: Essentials page.

3.   Create your content as you normally would. See Creating Content for more details.

4.   Click on the Advanced tab.

5.   Select yes for Is This a Template?

6.   Click Save.

7.   To create a template from one of ListManager's pre-existing templates, in the left Navigation bar, click Content, and then click New Content from Template. This allows you to select a built-in template, and edit it according to your needs.

Creating a Fill-in-the-Blank Template

A fill-in-the-blank template helps users insert text into the right place to make their own content. To make fill-in-the-blank templates, you must insert a template field into your content. Template fields may be put anywhere in your message—the subject line, say, or the From: address. When a user selects to use the template, all they will need to do is to fill in the form with the requested information to generate new content.

1.   In the left Navigation bar, click Content.

2.   Click on New Content. You'll be taken to the Content: New Content: Essentials page.

3.   Create your content as you normally would. See Creating Content for more details.

4.   Click on the Text Message or HTML Message tab.

5.   Click Insert Field.

6.   Click on the Template tab.

7.   Select whether to Ask User For a Line, Paragraph or URL to an Image.

8.   Enter a Description for the fill-in-the-blank template.

9.   Enter a Default Value for the form.

10.  Click on Insert. Your content will automatically be turned into a template.

11.  Click Save.

Sample Template Fields

If you want to create a template directly in your HTML editor, here are some examples of template fields:

Line:

##line "description" "optional instructions" "optional default value"##

Image:

##image "description" "optional instructions" "optional default value"##

Paragraph:

##paragraph "description" "optional instructions" "optional default value"##

Line asking for clickthrough tracking URL:

<a href="%%track "##line "Tracking URL" "Enter a URL to be tracked" "http://example.com"##"%%">click here</a>