topic Re: Module for Email Table with HREF not working with Link or URL Fields in CMS Development

Module for Email Table with HREF not working with Link or URL Fields

MMcLellan — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 23:47:54 GMT

Not sure what I'm going wrong, but I've got a simple HTML block module to create an event table that I want to drop into an email. I will re-use this with other marketers so wanted to create it as editable using fields. I created the field for the event date, name, and URL, and used those fields in the module but when I check my module preview -- the date and name work, but the href link just gives me an error each time, like its not pullin in the URL from the field I created?

CODE:

<table role="presentation" border="1" style width="90%" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto">
<th style="width:40%">Date of Event</th>
<th style="width:50%">Event Name/Info</th>
<tr>
<td style="padding: 8px";>{{ module.event_1.event_1_date }}</td>
<td style="padding: 8px";><a href="{{ module.event_1.link_field }}">{{ module.event_1.event_1 }}</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding: 8px";>Date 2</td>
<td style="padding: 8px";>Event with Link 2</td>
</tr>
<td style="padding: 8px";>Date 3</td>
<td style="padding: 8px";>Event with Link</td>
</table>

Re: Module for Email Table with HREF not working with Link or URL Fields

TomM2 — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 11:50:43 GMT

Hey @MMcLellan It looks like you're using field values for the urls. "even_1.event_1_date" are pulling from these. Just to verify, do you have these fields set up on the right panel within the design manager?
If so, do the snippets you've added in here exactly match the titles within the fields you've set?

If so, have you set a default value or a value for these fields? What is the output HTML you're seeing from this module?

Re: Module for Email Table with HREF not working with Link or URL Fields

alyssamwilie — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 12:55:13 GMT

If you're using the URL field then you would need to add .href to the end of the value to get the link.

module.event_1.link_field.href

If you're using the Link field you would add .url.href to the end of the value to get the link.

module.event_1.link_field.url.href

You can click the "Copy" dropdown inside a field and select "Copy Snippet" to get the exact snippet needed to render the field data.

Re: Module for Email Table with HREF not working with Link or URL Fields

MMcLellan — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 18:25:58 GMT

Thank you, this helped me figure out that snippet piece I was editing wrong!