Malformed Link Creation using Velocity Script

Question

Business requirement is to add specific URL in the email assets including UTM parameter field.  However, there are two different velocity script created in which one of them need to add the URL within the Velocity token and this link does not create  Malformed Link  refer below code

#set( $UTM= ${lead.encryptedID} )
#set( $url = "https://www.google.com" )
#set( $encryptedValue = $esc.url($UTM))
#set( $encryptedURLPrefill = $url + "?UTM=" + $encryptedValue)
${encryptedURLPrefill}
 
Below OUTPUT URL is working fine http://www.google.com?UTM=niuwtv%2FX6QbChEVV46iplJEmx02eOtwqJzG%2Fnm9fmYouZwADkHr%2BMg%3D%3D 
 
But, business need is to take out the URL from velocity token and use only UTM parameter via velocity token. In that case, Malformed Link is being created and traced in Email Link Performance report. refer below code

#set($UTM= ${lead.encryptedID})
#set($url = "dummy text")
#set($encryptedValue = $esc.url($UTM))
${encryptedValue}

did anyone faced this issue for Malformed Link Creation using Velocity Script what can be best way to resolve this issue?
 
malformed link example
google.com/set(%20$UTM%20=%20$%7Blead.encryptedID%7D%20)

Darshil_Shah1 · Accepted Answer

Yup! please refer below imageAlso, I see the given example for your URL is not converting + sign in %20 but when we use the velocity token it does. it look like you are not using velocity token in the URL. are you using lead token only in UTM?  Thanks for sharing that! I’m not referencing any lead token in the link - just the velocity token.

Darshil_Shah1 · Answer

Hey, couple of notes for both the velocity script snippets below:

Script - 1

#set( $UTM= ${lead.encryptedID} )
#set( $url = "https://www.google.com" )
#set( $encryptedValue = $esc.url($UTM))
#set( $encryptedURLPrefill = $url + "?UTM=" + $encryptedValue)
${encryptedURLPrefill}
Below OUTPUT URL is working fine
http://www.google.com?UTM=niuwtv%2FX6QbChEVV46iplJEmx02eOtwqJzG%2Fnm9fmYouZwADkHr%2BMg%3D%3D

The URL added via the above script will not be tracked in Marketo. More on tracking URLs added via velocity here.

Script - 2

#set($UTM= ${lead.encryptedID})
#set($url = "dummy text")
#set($encryptedValue = $esc.url($UTM))
${encryptedValue}
did anyone faced this issue for Malformed Link Creation using Velocity Script what can be best way to resolve this issue?

malformed link example

google.com/set(%20$UTM%20=%20$%7Blead.encryptedID%7D%20)

You can either output the entire URL (<a> through closing </a>) using the email script - this way you'll be able to track the activities on the URL given that you include the protocol outside of variable in the anchor tag, or use the existing script and include the class="mktNoTrack" in the HTML of your link, however this'll disable the tracking on this link. Also, I don't think you need to set the $url variable here, if you aren't using it anywhere.

Refer this community article.

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