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Christine_LeBla
Christine_LeBla
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December 17, 2024
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dynamic email template possible for an editor to use for marketing activities?

  • December 17, 2024
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Hi,


I am using one of the email templates in the design studio and re-fashioning, re-branding.
How can I get it so that an admin who creates an email within Marketing Activities & injects the content into the email template can have the ability to turn off/on or hide/show the content sections? The content variables on the right side of the screen for:
Preheader
Header
Hero
PhotoL
So on & so forth...
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To have that top-level content management system when plugging in the content for the email instead of having everything in there and they manually have to carefully delete all sections they do not need.

Please advise how I can do that without affecting or damaging the base template in the design studio as the admin changes out content from campaign to campaign when utilizing that base template.


Thank you.

 

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Best answer by SanfordWhiteman

This is only truly possible with Velocity.

 

You think it would be possible to use amktoBoolean variable to “hide” a module, but you can only comment out a module that way. And you don’t want to do that because the overall length of the email will be bloated beyond, for example, Gmail’s upper limits, regardless of what the end user sees.

 

With Velocity you can completely omit module content from the final email, not just comment it out. Of course, you’d need to be/have a Velocity-fluent developer.

 

 

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SanfordWhiteman
SanfordWhitemanAccepted solution
Level 10
December 18, 2024

This is only truly possible with Velocity.

 

You think it would be possible to use amktoBoolean variable to “hide” a module, but you can only comment out a module that way. And you don’t want to do that because the overall length of the email will be bloated beyond, for example, Gmail’s upper limits, regardless of what the end user sees.

 

With Velocity you can completely omit module content from the final email, not just comment it out. Of course, you’d need to be/have a Velocity-fluent developer.

 

 

Christine_LeBla
Christine_LeBlaAuthor
Level 4
December 19, 2024

Thank you. Very good to know.
Since Marketers are often the key people completing the content for these templates, one would think Marketo could improve that management flow for them. - It's a little risky having a non-technical person manually remove content blocks they won't need every time for a newsletter.

 

Thank you for the quick response.

SanfordWhiteman
SanfordWhiteman
Level 10
December 19, 2024

To be clear, I’m saying you can create a template that works exactly like this, where each module has its own show/hide control that determines whether the module is output at all once it’s in the email asset.

 

But your email developer needs to know how to use Velocity to build that template.

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