Drag and Drop Editor: Preview

There are two ways to preview the email from within the Drag and Drop Editor:

It is currently not possible to create new Email Sends/Templates using this editor, and as part of our continuing plans to deprecate the Drag and Drop editor, cloning Email Sends/Templates using the Drag and Drop Editor while on version 12.1+ will automatically update their editor type to the New Drag and Drop editor.

From version 12.2, this will be released to and applied automatically to all versions as we move to fully deprecate the old editors.

Goals

• Learn how to preview a Drag and Drop Editor template's content

Preview Button

Click the Preview button next to Design to see a preview and a mobile preview:

The mobile preview included in the Drag and Drop editor is an approximation of what the template may look like on a mobile device. It does not take certain factors into account, such as variable screen sizes across different mobile devices or how rendered FreeMarker text will affect the layout.

NOTE: FreeMarker interpolations are generally much longer than the rendered text that will display once the email is sent to a recipient. The mobile preview treats the FreeMarker as one word since there are no spaces in the interpolation, and this can cause distortions in the width of the included mobile preview since if the interpolation is longer than the width of the preview, the preview will not split the interpolation across multiple lines of text to account for this. This would not be an issue once the email is sent out because the long string of text for the interpolation would be replaced with the referenced value from the recipient's record. For example an interpolation such as ${Recipient.contact.firstname[0]!"Valued Customer"} would be replaced with the recipient's actual first name, such as John.

For more specific previews across different devices, check the Inbox Preview.

Inbox Preview

In addition to the preview provided in the Drag and Drop editor, You can use the Inbox Preview to see how your template will look across many different clients and devices. You do have a limited number of these tests each month, depending on the license level of ClickDimensions for the organization. To learn more about Inbox Preview, see this article.