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Tags and Filters

When sending a campaign, you are able to use a number of custom tags and filters.

Some of the most common tags are found below:

Tag Required
[UNSUBSCRIBE_URL] YES
[COMPANY_FULL_ADDRESS] YES
[UPDATE_PROFILE_URL] NO
[WEB_VERSION_URL] NO
[CAMPAIGN_URL] NO
[LIST_NAME] NO
[LIST_SUBJECT] NO
[LIST_DESCRIPTION] NO
[LIST_FROM_NAME] NO
[CURRENT_YEAR] NO
[CURRENT_MONTH] NO
[CURRENT_DAY] NO
[CURRENT_DATE] NO
[COMPANY_NAME] NO
[COMPANY_ADDRESS_1] NO
[COMPANY_ADDRESS_2] NO
[COMPANY_CITY] NO
[COMPANY_ZONE] NO
[COMPANY_ZIP] NO
[COMPANY_COUNTRY] NO
[COMPANY_PHONE] NO
[CAMPAIGN_SUBJECT] NO
[CAMPAIGN_TO_NAME] NO
[CAMPAIGN_FROM_NAME] NO
[CAMPAIGN_REPLY_TO] NO
[CAMPAIGN_UID] NO
[SUBSCRIBER_UID] NO
[EMAIL] NO
[FNAME] NO
[LNAME] NO

In addition, each of the above tags receive a set of “filters.” Filters are a simple way of transforming the tag in some way or another. For example, you might want to embed a link to Twitter in your campaign URL itself.

Using only tags, you would embed it like:

https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=[CAMPAIGN_SUBJECT]&url=[CAMPAIGN_URL]

But there is a problem, because Twitter expects arguments to be URL encoded:

https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=my%20super%20campaign&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.domain.com%2Fcampaigns%2F1cart129djat3

But instead it will get https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=my super campaign&url=http://www.domain.com/campaigns/1cart129djat3

…which includes spaces and isn’t “correct” in URL-land. In order to overcome this issue, you need to apply filters over the tags. Therefore the URL becomes:

https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=[CAMPAIGN_SUBJECT:filter:urlencode]&url=[CAMPAIGN_URL:filter:urlencode]

…using the urlencode filter (you simply place the word “filter” after a colon, followed by another colon and the filter you’d like to use).

Let’s say we want to make sure our Twitter text starts with a capitalized letter and the rest of the letters are lowercase.

In order to accomplish this, you would apply multiple filters (separated by a pipe character) to the same tag, for example:

https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=[CAMPAIGN_SUBJECT:filter:lowercase|ucfirst|urlencode]&url=[CAMPAIGN_URL:filter:urlencode]

(Please note, the order in which you add the filters is the same order in which they are applied)

Here is the entire list of filters:

urlencode will urlencode your tag
rawurlencode will rawurlencode your URL
htmlencode will convert HTML tags into their correct entities
trim will trim the white space from the beginning and end of your tag
uppercase will transform your entire tag to uppercase
lowercase will transform your entire tag to lowercase
ucwords will capitalize the first letter of the words in your tag’s content
ucfirst will capitalize only the first letter of your tag’s content
reverse will reverse your tag content
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