Quickstart for Marketing Cloud

The Quickstart for Marketing Cloud module provides displays of News content from the website in a way that best works with email newsletters created in Marketing Cloud.

These displays are stripped of all HTML except for what is needed in the email newsletter. They are dynamically created so news items can be updated as needed and pulled into Marketing Cloud at the time of email send.

Enable the Quickstart for Marketing Cloud Module

Site Administrators can:

  1. Go to Extend from the top toolbar.
  2. Search for the Quickstart for Marketing Cloud module.
  3. Check the box next to the Quickstart for Marketing Cloud module.
  4. Click Install at the bottom of the page to enable the module.

Note: The Quickstart for Marketing Cloud module is experimental.

Access Website Content

  1. Navigate to Manage > Content > Content for email
  2. Click the desired Copy email snippet link from the dropdown
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    Screenshot of Content for email in Quickstart
  3. The content URL is then copied to your local clipboard for the desired layout

Configure Images

  1. Edit the desired News item
  2. Click the pencil icon on the image
  3. Open the Crop image selection

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    Edit image screenshot
  4. Select the desired crop to edit

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    Crop options for marketing cloud
    • Marketing Cloud - Hero Layout (600 x 300px)
    • Marketing Cloud - 50/50 Layout (270 x 180px)
    • Marketing Cloud - 30/70 Layout (200 x 200px)
  • Save the image crop options
  • Save the news item
  • Clear cache

Paste Content URL into Marketing Cloud

Note: Requires restricted Marketing Cloud access provided by the Trellis team.

  1. Navigate to Edit Content of the desired email
  2. Add External Content block to the email
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    Screenshot of adding external content into email
  3. Paste the URL from the website in the External Content email block
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    Screenshot of adding a URL into Marketing Cloud email
  4. Select desired Retrieval Method
    • Immediately: Renders News or Event item content at time of pasting the URL
    • Send Time: Renders News or Event item content at time of sending the email
  5. Click Done Editing

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Example Email

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Hero layout

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50/50 Layouts (Image left)

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50/50 Layouts (Image right)

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30/70 Layouts (Image left)

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70/30 Layouts (Image right)

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Text Layouts

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Event Layouts

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Whole email example