GetSocialPublishURL()

Returns HTML code for sharing a content region on a supported social network. Use this function with the Social Forward feature of Marketing Cloud Engagement.

Availability 
Marketing Cloud Engagement ✅ Yes
Marketing Cloud Next ❌ No

Syntax 

 
1GetSocialPublishURL(socialNetworkCode,
2                    contentRegion,
3                    socialNetworkParamKey,
4                    socialNetworkParamValue)

The GetSocialPublishURL() function has five parameters:

  • socialNetworkCode (string): Required. The name of the social network.
  • contentRegion (string): Required. The name of the content region to share on the social network.
  • socialNetworkParamKey (string): The key of a parameter to pass to the target social network.
  • socialNetworkParamValue (string): The value of a parameter to pass to the target social network.

You can pass multiple key-value pairs for parameters by appending them to the end of the function.

Supported Social Networks 

Pass a number from the Number Code column as the first parameter in the function.

This list includes several social media sites that are no longer active as of 2023. This list is provided for completeness.

Note
Social NetworkNumber Code
Facebook1
Del.icio.us2
Digg3
MySpace4
StumbleUpon5
Google6
Microsoft7
Yahoo8
LinkedIn9
ShareThis10
Twitter11
Google+15

Usage 

In the pasted HTML code below, the GetSocialPublishURL() function creates a link to Facebook in order to share the specified content area on that network.

1<!-- RegionStart[ name:'Shared content region 1',
2title:'First shared email content',
3description:'This is an example of shared content',
4csskey:'portfolio css 1'] -->
5<tablewidth='100%'bgcolor='#FFFFFF'border='0'bordercolor=''cellpadding='5'cellspacing='0'>
6<tr>
7<tdstyle='font-family:Arial; font-size:13px'>
8<imgsrc='http://example.com/images/logo.jpg' title='logo'align='left'border='0'/>
9<p id='text-placeholder'style='margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;'>This is an example of a shared content area!&amp;nbsp; Please feel free to pass on this information!<br/>
10<br/></p>
11<!-- Creates a link to share this content with facebook -->
12<a href='%%=GetSocialPublishURL('1','Shared content region 1')=%%'
13alias='Social Forward to Facebook'
14title='Publish to Facebook'>
15<img src='http://images.dev2.et.local/lib/ffcf14/m/1/social_default_facebook_icon.jpg' alt='Facebook' title='Facebook' border='0'></a>
16</td>
17</tr>
18</table>
19<!-- RegionEnd[ name:'Shared content region 1'] -->

See Also 

Getting Started
Contact Functions
Content Functions
Data Extension Functions
Date & Time Functions
Encryption Functions
HTTP Functions
Math Functions
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Functions
Salesforce Functions
Site Functions
SMS Functions
SOAP API Functions
Social Functions
Summary
GetPublishedSocialContent()
GetSocialPublishUrl()
GetSocialPublishUrlByName()
String Functions
Utility Functions

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