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Infusionsoft Cookbook

By : Paul Sokol
Book Image

Infusionsoft Cookbook

By: Paul Sokol

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Infusionsoft Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Making any text a social sharing link


The social sharing snippets in the e-mail builder are powerful ways to give recipients an easy way to share an e-mail to their networks. However, we have no control over how these share buttons display visually.

This hack uses a hidden system merge field to construct the same link built by those snippets.

In this recipe, we are going to create a link that acts as a Twitter share.

Getting ready

We need to be logged in to Infusionsoft, inside a specific account and inside a campaign with an e-mail that we wish to insert a social share link into.

How to do it...

  1. Open the e-mail.

  2. Highlight the text we wish to make a social sharing link and click on Link in the toolbar.

  3. Set the URL as https://appname.infusionsoft.com/app/socialShare/~EmailSent.Id~/~EmailSent.PartialHash~/T and click Insert/Update.

How it works...

The link we manually build the same link that the system generates on the backend from a Twitter social share snippet.

There's more...

To create a social share...