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Insert unique file download links in an email campaign

Use contact data fields to send each of your contacts a unique link.

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Written by Gareth Burroughes
Updated over a week ago

Before you start

Things you need to know:

  • You must have access to a server to upload your files to.


Send a unique file link to each of your contacts

In this example, we're going to explain how to send each of your contacts a unique link to a file, allowing you to control which contacts can see which file.

  1. Upload your files to a server.

  2. Create a spreadsheet that has two columns of data - one column for the URLs that link to the files on your server, and another column with the email address to which you want to send the file. A URL and the corresponding email address must be on the same row.

  3. Create a new contact data field to store the URL against. This contact data field must have a data type of Text.

  4. Map the email addresses to the email contact data field and map the URLs to the custom contact data field you created.

  5. Create your campaign, and add a hyperlink.

  6. For Link (URL), enter https://@CUSTOM_DATAFIELD_NAME@. For example, if you called your custom data field Unique link, you would enter https://@UNIQUE_LINK@.

When contacts click this link in your campaign, their unique file downloads from the URL that you mapped to the custom contact data field.

Important

Make sure that the URLs in your spreadsheet don't include http:// or https://. One of these protocols is added to the URL by default. If any of your URLs already include one of these protocols when uploaded then they won't work.

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