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Angus_McCann1
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Custom String Field vs Custom URL Field

  • March 30, 2020
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We are capturing a personalized cart abandon URL for a cart abandon email and passing it into a field in Marketo.


My question is do I populate it into a URL field or a String field? Is one better than another for a specific reason? I know when populating a link via a token, in order to have the reporting register the token as a link, we need to leave the protocol (http:// or  https://) outside of the value in the token.

 

Does capturing the URL in a URL field circumvent this? Do we need to leave off the protocol? Etc I'm just struggling with what the difference is between the URL field and a string and the doc isn't very clear on that.

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Best answer by Darshil_Shah1

If you wish to store only urls in this custom field then I would suggest using URL datatype as with the URL datatype you may store the protocol and use the token for same without pre-appending the protocol like string field. Also the string field has the character limit of 255, this might be bottleneck for larger urls.

 

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Darshil_Shah1
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Community Advisor and Adobe Champion
March 30, 2020

If you wish to store only urls in this custom field then I would suggest using URL datatype as with the URL datatype you may store the protocol and use the token for same without pre-appending the protocol like string field. Also the string field has the character limit of 255, this might be bottleneck for larger urls.

 

    Angus_McCann1
    Angus_McCann1Author
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    March 30, 2020

    Awesome! Thank you so much! That's exactly what I was looking for!

    Darshil_Shah1
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    Darshil_Shah1Community Advisor and Adobe Champion
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    March 30, 2020

    Anytime 😉

     

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