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Further details for creating templates

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Have you noticed? When you click on Save, further tabs are added to the Template tab: Content, Picture components, Attachments, Trackable links, Send mailing. You have here the possibility of creating your templates in detail. You can add further information that will be included in later mailings based on this template. You do not have to use the additional tabs and instead you can make all the entries later when you are creating the mailing.

You will already know about these times from the Mailings chapter (chapter "Mailings - Sending out newsletters") where you can find a detailed description of the individual fields behind the tabs.

Fig. 3.53: After clicking Save there are more tabs available.

Fig. 3.53: After clicking Save there are more tabs available.

Content: Normally, you define only placeholders in the template for the text building blocks and determine the text building block content later when you are creating the mailing. If the content of the text building block is to remain the same for multiple newsletters, you can define the contents of the text building block directly in the template and then simply use this in the mailing. For details, see chapter "Creating text and HTML modules".

Picture components: Do you use some graphics and images regularly for your newsletter? Then paste these directly into the template. For details, see chapter: "Using graphic elements".

Attachments: You can here add an attachment to the template which remains unchanged in all newsletters based on it, for example an order form. For details,, see chapter: "Sending normal file attachment".

Trackable links: You can determine the measurability of recurring links in the template. For details, see chapter "Using trackable links".

Send mailing: To check the correct setup of the template, you can use the following functions: Preview, test transmission to administrators, test transmission to those on test distribution list. Since this is not a complete mailing, but just a template, it will not be transmitted to all recipients.