Email Marketing : In-context campaign editing experience for business owners (beta) : Comments

RE: In-context campaign editing experience for business owners (beta)

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 11:32:05 GMT

This looks really promising. I can't wait to enable this for some of our clients. However, we have a number of row based newsletters, e.g. image in one column, text in the other. For this sort of newsletter, we would need the ability to set an ICE repeating region. Could this be enabled, and repeat a row or add another copy of a table? That would turn this feature from a B+ to an A+!

We've been having trouble with the current system as copy/paste in some browsers in the standard HTML editor doesn't work very well when you're dealing with entire tables.

RE: In-context campaign editing experience for business owners (beta)

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 12:38:42 GMT

Hi Megan,

This release does not include the ability to duplicate sections (similar to ICE repeating regions). Since email templates are almost entirely based on table based layouts, would it be enough to have the ability to duplicate/remove an existing table row?

Thank you,

Cristinel

RE: In-context campaign editing experience for business owners (beta)

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 23:45:39 GMT

Yes! Duplicating or removing a table row would be ideal.

RE: In-context campaign editing experience for business owners (beta)

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 04:35:42 GMT

Ditto!

RE: In-context campaign editing experience for business owners (beta)

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 05:07:15 GMT

Can both the source file and hyperlink of an image be editable? For example, I would like clients to upload a new button image as well as control the destination link. Does this constitute as nested elements, which are currently not allowed? Likewise, how do you control the appearance of a specific text hyperlink (different size and color from the general <a> style) while giving control to client to edit both the text itself as well as the destination link?

RE: In-context campaign editing experience for business owners (beta)

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 09:27:01 GMT

Hi Centrifuge Media Lab,

Yes, you will be able to put a link on an image and be able to edit both. For that, you have to enmbed the img tag into the a tag and make both editable, one as an image and the other one as a link. Here is a example:

<a href="http://www.google.com/" ice:editable="link"><img src="/img/image.png" ice:editable="image" /></a>

Also, you will be able to allow users to edit both the text of the link and the link:

<a href="http://www.google.com" title="Go to google" ice:editable="line, text">Link text</a>

If you want to allow users to edit the formatting on the link, then, you will have to include an html editable area, where you allow users to create links.

Best regards,

Cristinel

RE: In-context campaign editing experience for business owners (beta)

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 19:11:23 GMT

Agreed, some kind of solution to repeating regions is essential.

RE: In-context campaign editing experience for business owners (beta)

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 13:05:05 GMT

Ditto on the add/remove rows.

Also,an observation that might save some head-scratching by other partners...

Since we can't save a site template without tag_pagecontent, it appears that when we enable this beta feature, our process to provide this style of newsletter to a client site will be via adding it as a template in the Partner Portal / Tools / Newsletter Templates. (I guess we could also make a single campaign and then let the client copy it, too...)

I added a "new style" template for a test site via PP, then noticed that in the test site, the "select template" field in the Detaile page (not the Template page) is disabled, so the client/user is restricted to either a "start from scratch" newsletter using the Admin editor, or the template(s) we add to their site via PP. (And the client is prevented from using a web page template by mistake...)

RE: In-context campaign editing experience for business owners (beta)

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 09:02:20 GMT

Looking great I have to say.

However, I agree with the above comments re. repeatable sections. This is a must really, as clients will always be wanting to write newsletters with varying numbers of topics.

As a work around, if the editor had H1, H2, etc formatting functionality we could have just one editable region that could contain multiple sections. Not ideal, but an improvement.

By the way, do you have a timeframe for updating the other templates to include this functionality?

RE: In-context campaign editing experience for business owners (beta)

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:26:50 GMT

The ability to DELETE or HIDE an editable content section is needed. This enables the clients to not show a section as required within an individual camapaign. So far the little bit of playing about has been very impressive but certainly the ability to delete and the inclusion of the suggestions above about repeating a section are defiite musts for this to be at all considered a full feature.

RE: In-context campaign editing experience for business owners (beta)

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:18:25 GMT

Repeatable regions will be included in the next release. You will be able to mark table rows as repeatable and users will be able to duplicate or delete those.

Cristinel

RE: In-context campaign editing experience for business owners (beta)

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 03:13:45 GMT

If we activate this for a client but it does not meet their needs, can we switch back?

RE: In-context campaign editing experience for business owners (beta)

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:20:32 GMT

When is the next release due to be released?

RE: In-context campaign editing experience for business owners (beta)

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 12:19:40 GMT

Hello OnCompany,

While the email marketing is beta you will have the option of switching on / off for as many times you would want. Once the feature will be taken out of beta, which we plan to do it in one of the next releases, there will be no option to switch back.

Cristinel

RE: In-context campaign editing experience for business owners (beta)

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 12:22:23 GMT

Hello Snarzom12,

The next release is scheduled for the end of February. The current tentative date is 26 February, but this is subject to change.

Cristinel

RE: In-context campaign editing experience for business owners (beta)

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:48:50 GMT

Is this still on schedule for release. I have two clients who hate that you cannot repeat regions.

RE: In-context campaign editing experience for business owners (beta)

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 12:02:43 GMT

Hi Snarzom12,

We will be postponing the release for March, but just as a reasurring note, the repeating regions work is completed and will be included in the release.

Cristinel

RE: In-context campaign editing experience for business owners (beta)

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 22:46:46 GMT

Boo! I was hoping to roll out repeating regions to a client next week!

RE: In-context campaign editing experience for business owners (beta)

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 05:29:23 GMT

Hi Christinel,

Do we have a date scheduled for this during March?

Sorry just have 4 clients I want to hand this over to with repeating regions.

RE: In-context campaign editing experience for business owners (beta)

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 00:45:03 GMT

Great new feature! Quick question/bug - I want my client to be able to edit a link to point to a specific blog post (as with the current editor), however when I try to do this it only allows linking to the top level of a blog (not the post)?

RE: In-context campaign editing experience for business owners (beta)

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 08:02:14 GMT

Hi snarzom12,

The scheduled release date is Tuesday, March 26th. We'll let you know if something changes.

Cristinel

RE: In-context campaign editing experience for business owners (beta)

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:16:37 GMT

Hi Cristinel - this didn't answer my question?

RE: In-context campaign editing experience for business owners (beta)

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 09:00:03 GMT

Hi Tiger,

Unfortunately, the fix for blog links in not included in this release. We will be looking for provinding a fix in our next release.

Cristinel

RE: In-context campaign editing experience for business owners (beta)

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 23:20:46 GMT

this is probably the best update to this date. Absolutely mindblowing. Especially seeing the new editor that formats the HTML and has line numbers.

thanks guys.

RE: In-context campaign editing experience for business owners (beta)

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 23:22:43 GMT

is this something that would be availiable for normal web pages?

RE: In-context campaign editing experience for business owners (beta)

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 06:12:53 GMT

Hi Crintinel,

Was repeatable table rows included with the March release? I don't see it in the release announcement (http://www.businesscatalyst.com/bc-blog/announcing-our-march-2013-system-update) and can't find a way to do it in the admin view.

RE: In-context campaign editing experience for business owners (beta)

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 07 Jul 2013 18:06:30 GMT

Hi, I'd also love to know what is happening with this. It is so close to being such a great tool but just not quite there.

RE: In-context campaign editing experience for business owners (beta)

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 07 Jul 2013 18:54:47 GMT

I think this blog post is a bit out of date. Updated info at http://forums.adobe.com/docs/DOC-3201

(Yes, repeatable rows -- see the "section" attribute)

RE: In-context campaign editing experience for business owners (beta)

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 13 Aug 2014 22:02:41 GMT

Where is this - no beta template in email marketing, no "developer toolbar" set. Turned on under Beta features but the editor is unchanged. What are we missing here?

RE: In-context campaign editing experience for business owners (beta)

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 13 Aug 2014 22:13:37 GMT

OK, so we have found it. If you are a partner you need to turn it on for each site in the partner portal. This should have been added above step 01 in this tutorial. For partners in the Partner Portal it is under "Tools" > "Online Editor Settings" - Choose the site you want to enable it on > select "other Settings" from the tab bar and under the "Email Campaigns" section click "Enable for email campaigns editing". Nice hiding Adobe :-)