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Tom_Kerlin2
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March 1, 2017
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Can I link something to the Web Version of my email?

  • March 1, 2017
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Hi all,

Is it possible to link something to a web version of my email with a URL that does not have the additional tracking code? I sent myself a sample test and tried to take the following URL from the text version of my email (excluding the mkt_tok munchkin tracking code):

However, whenever I try to open in another window, the following message appears:

Is it possible to use a generic View as a Web Page URL, and to successfully use it as a link in an article that's stored outside Marketo (Ex: an article stored on our website)?

Thanks,

Tom

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Best answer by SanfordWhiteman

Then you'll just get an error as the mkt_tok is used to find the email content.

If you want to "burn" a copy of Web Page View to a URL w/out a query string, you can use ShareMaker, but what's the specific reason you want to eliminate the query string? If you create a dummy lead to represent the shareable web view, you can use its mkt_tok and not get in anybody else's way.

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Grégoire_Miche2
Grégoire_Miche2
Level 10
March 1, 2017

Hi Tom,

Do do this, you will have to replace the Marketo View as web page mechanisms. This is the way to do it:

  1. Deactivate the default in admin->email (replace the default values here is HTML comments:
  2. avoid using the {{system.viewaswebpage}} token in your email and have your web page URL instead.

-Greg

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Tom_Kerlin2Author
Level 7
March 1, 2017

Thanks Greg,

What would happen if I just removed the following from existing code (below): mkt_tok=##MKT_TOK## ?

<div style="text-align: center"><font face="Verdana" size="1">To view this email as a web page, <a href="%mkt_webview_url%?mkt_tok=##MKT_TOK##">click here</a><br /><br /></font></div>

Tom Kerlin
SanfordWhiteman
SanfordWhitemanAccepted solution
Level 10
March 1, 2017

Then you'll just get an error as the mkt_tok is used to find the email content.

If you want to "burn" a copy of Web Page View to a URL w/out a query string, you can use ShareMaker, but what's the specific reason you want to eliminate the query string? If you create a dummy lead to represent the shareable web view, you can use its mkt_tok and not get in anybody else's way.

    Nik_Crosina
    Nik_Crosina
    Level 1
    March 22, 2019

    I got this to work QUICKLY and as an EMERGENCY solution only by copying the weblink via a right click on a TEST SEND of the email.

    We had the Mrketing director request a link to an email to customers that he could share in messages on linkedIn.

    It looks uglhy, but because it contains the tokens correctly the link will work. I just hopoe that Marketo does not have any mechanisms built in to prevent it from working when it doscovers the the same token string / URL parameters are being used within a whole global region ?!!

    It sometimes is too smart for its own good!!

    And not hackable enough, wihtout being the Marketo super-expert

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      Munlawin
      Level 1
      October 19, 2020

      Like you, had to get an emergency link up and your method worked!

      Glenn M Munlawin
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