Text editor
Paste Text
- Copy text from external source.
- Go into Design (Edit) mode of your campaign or template file in Delivra.
- Locate and click the Paste icon from the toolbar.
- Choose your preferred paste function.
Merge Tags
| 1. Open your campaign and go into the Design step of the workflow to use the drag-and-drop email designer. | |
| 2. Click into a text block and place your cursor where you want to insert the merge tag. | |
| 3. In the text editor on the right, locate and click the Merge Tag icon. | |
| 4. A menu will appear. Scroll or search to find desired field. Click to select the field. | |
5. The field's merge tag will be visibly inserted into the text block at the cursor position. 6. Format as needed by adding a comma, or line breaks. | |
| 7. When the campaign sends, the recipient will see their unique information. |
- While merge tags allow for easy personalization, be certain that you have accurate data for your recipients. Most recipients do appreciate the personal touch, until they realize the data is wrong or incomplete.
- We recommend you add a default value to the fields you intend to merge into emails. This default value will be shown when a recipient of an email does not have a saved value in the field you are merging. You can set default values for your fields in Settings > Data Setup > Contact Fields. Edit the contact field and enter a value in "merge options" box.
Bullet Lists
Creating a bullet point list can be a key way to increase message retention in your audience. Bullets break up large text blocks, draw the eyes, and allow recipients to scan your email effectively.
Using the Drag-and-Drop Editor, you can type or paste the list of items into your text block, one per line. Then, highlight the entire list of items and click the Bullet or Numbered list icon on the toolbar.
Bullet List Tips
Use indent from the text editor toolbar to create sub-lists.
RSS Feeds
Companies may have a RSS feed on their site to showcase a rolling list of news or new stories. Our RSS integration allows you to pull in your headlines, a small blurb from the story, an image (if the RSS feed supports images), and your story link to use in your email content.
- RSS feeds are found on your website, either on the homepage or perhaps on your blog page. Look for the RSS icon seen in the image below.
- Click the RSS icon. This should open a feed page with the raw content.
- Copy the RSS feed URL.
- In Delivra, open your email template file (or campaign). Navigate to the Design step to edit the email content.
- Add / open a text block in the design to expose the text editor.
- Locate and click the RSS icon from the text editor toolbar.
- Paste the URL from the RSS feed page on your website.
- Click the "Get Feed" button.
- Available content will be displayed. Checkmark all content to pull into the email design.
- Click the "Ok" button.
- If needed, edit the feed text that's been inserted using the text editor.
- Continue editing your design until you are ready to move on to choose your audience!
Highlight Text
The text highlight feature allows you to call-out text in your emails. You will find an icon in the text editor toolbar for text background color.
Apply highlight to text
1. With your mouse, select the text to apply background color to
2. Locate the text background color icon on toolbar
3. Click the down arrow to open color picker
4. Click on a displayed color to select it.
Strikethrough
In some instances, you may want to add a strikethrough to your HTML text to indicate a change, a price reduction, or another alteration. This is easy to do in the drag-and-drop editor.
- Navigate to the campaign or template to be edited.
- Open the file in the drag-and-drop editor by choosing Edit, then navigate to the design step.
- Click open the text block from the left to open the text editor on the right.
- Highlight the text you would like to strikethrough.
- Choose the "strikethrough" icon from the text editor toolbar, seen below.
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