Content Editor

The content editor allows you to edit the message content of your mail job.

The editor consists of the main panel that displays the actual editor and an additional panel with various sections on the right.

In this panel on the right, each section can be opened and closed separately, so that you only need to see the content of those sections that are currently of interest to you. Simply click on a section header to open/close this section.

The text editor for a plain text message is a standard text editor. Use the icons in the editor toolbar for access to various editor functions.

For a plain text message, the panel on the right contains the following sections:

Merge Fields

This panel section shows all available merge fields. Click on a merge field name to insert it into the editor at the current cursor position.

Drop-Ins

This panel section shows all available user-defined and system drop-ins. (Except for the social media sharing system drop-ins, see "Social Media" section below).

Click on a drop-in name to insert it into the editor at the current cursor position. Hover the mouse pointer over a drop-in name to see a short description of what this drop-in will do. See also here.

Unsubscribe Action

This panel specifies the unsubscribe action link (URL) that is used to replace the *UnsubscribeURL system drop-in. This system drop-in is mandatory to be included in the email content of the message. It is replaced with the URL that is specified here.

Click the Change link in the section to edit the action link.

Attachments

This panel section shows all attachments that are part of the message. You can add any number of file attachments to your message, or none at all.

To edit the current attachments, click the Change link in that section. This opens a dialog where you can upload new attachments or download or remove attachments that were added previously.

Hosted Attachments

This panel section shows all hosted attachments that are part of the message. You can add any number of hosted attachments to your message, or none at all.

To add or delete the current hosted attachments, click on Manage the Hosted Attachments in that section. This opens a dialog where you can upload new attachments or download or remove attachment that were added previously.

Or in the list of already added hosted attachments that is shown in the panel section, click on an attachment name to insert a link to this attachment into the editor at the current cursor position.

Landing Pages

This panel section shows all available landing pages. Click on a landing page name to insert a link to this landing page into the editor at the current cursor position.

Social Media

This panel section allows you to integrate social media sharing and publishing into your email. See here for more details.

Social Media Sharing

By embedding the social media sharing icons (or similar links) into your message, you enable the recipients to easily share your message with other people, on various social media.

You can either include the full {{*SocialMedia}} system drop-in or one of the specific ShareURL drop-ins.

Click on a drop-in name to insert it into the editor at the current cursor position. Hover the mouse pointer over a drop-in name to see a short description of what this drop-in will do.

Content Options

On this panel section you can define various options for the content

Language

Define the character encoding to be used to encode the email message.

If Maestro is being used in a single language environment, either with plain English or with one of the common (West) European languages, then the safest choice is always the ISO-8859-1 (Latin 1) encoding. It contains all 26 common characters (both in upper and lower case), numerals 0 - 9, all the common punctuation characters and the more common special characters such as '@', '+', '*', and others. In addition, it contains many of the uncommon characters required for most West European languages, such as 'ö', 'å', 'ç' and others.
See here for more information.

Drop-In Tags

Define the drop-in opening and closing tags.
See here for more information.