Web page tab

The Insert URL allows you to insert a web page into your content, which is also called web fetch. The web page may be fetched when creating the content for each mailing or each individual recipient.

Note

Do not fetch a web page if you plan to use the Aurea List Manager HTML Editor. The Aurea List Manager HTML Editor is going to likely break HTML generated by another editor.

For more information, see Fetching data from a Web Server.

Find the table below showing features of the Web page tab:

Field Name Description
URL to Fetch

This is the URL to be fetched into your content. Make sure that the path for your images on the web page you are fetching is the absolute path that is the complete URL, not the relative path. For example, your HTML editor might make the path for an image to be something like /img/product.jpg. These should be changed to the absolute path like http://example.com/img/product.jpg

Note

You can make the URL to Fetch unique for each member by inserting a mail merge tag. However, you must use square brackets around the merge tag and not the standard double percent.

For example:

Wrong:

http://example.com/cgi-bin/getdata.pl?id=%%merge members_.emailaddr_%%

Right:

http://example.com/cgi-bin/getdata.pl?id=[merge members_.emailaddr_]

Fetch Page

This is used to specify when you want the web page to be fetched. The options available are below:

  • Right Now: Fetch the specified URL and insert it into your content now. Even if the contents of the fetched page change, your content remains the same.
  • Once Per Mailing: Fetch the page once at the time a mailing with this content is sent. If the page is the same for each member, this method is much faster, as ListManager needs to wait for the web page only once.
  • Repeatedly for Each Recipient: Fetch the page for each recipient on the list. If you are specifying a unique URL for each member (see URL to Fetch above), Aurea List Manager is going to need to fetch the page for each message it sends out

Note

This method is much slower than fetching the page once per mailing because your web server's speeds limit Aurea List Manager's speeds.. If you notice that your mailing speeds are faster if you select Once Per Mailing, your speeds are being limited by your web server.