{"id":31538,"date":"2018-04-21T15:47:48","date_gmt":"2018-04-21T15:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ampscript.guide\/wraplongurl\/"},"modified":"2021-04-06T00:58:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T00:58:43","slug":"wraplongurl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ampscript.guide\/wraplongurl\/","title":{"rendered":"WrapLongURL"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>WrapLongURL<\/h2>\n<p>This function shortens URLs longer than 975 characters to mitigate broken email hyperlinks in Microsoft Outlook, where lengths of URL hyperlinks are limited to the following number of characters:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Outlook 2007: 975 characters<\/li>\n<li>Outlook 2010: 1033 characters<\/li>\n<li>Outlook 2013: 2048 characters<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The function shortens a URL by substituting the original URL with a shorter platform URL. The platform URL redirects requests to the original URL when requested by the user agent.<\/p>\n<h3>Argument<\/h3>\n<p><code>WrapLongURL(1)<\/code><\/p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: center\">Ordinal<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: left\">Type<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: left\">Required<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: left\">Description<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\">1<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left\">String<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left\">True<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left\">URL to be shortened<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<blockquote>\n<p>NOTE: This function does not shorten URLs less than 975 characters in length.<\/p>\n<p>NOTE: URLs will only be shortened when the email is sent.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Example<\/h3>\n<pre><code>%%[\n\nvar @icon\nset @icon = \"https:\/\/limedash.com\/images\/rRprc5xG8vP0crpSqWLScVu6yKLTm...lKJK9m1napRdf6b+DAy\/ixM.jpg\" \/* abbreviated for display purposes *\/\n\n]%%\n&lt;img src=\"%%=WrapLongURL(@icon)=%%\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" alt=\"icon\" \/&gt;<\/code><\/pre>\n<h4>Output<\/h4>\n<p>The value of the <code>src<\/code> attribute will be shortened to a URL which redirects to the original URL.<\/p>\n<pre><code>http:\/\/cl.exct.net\/ResolveURL.aspx?qs=faebf571997acc80ec99646da21ae0ab<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WrapLongURL This function shortens URLs longer than 975 characters to mitigate broken email hyperlinks in Microsoft Outlook, where lengths of URL hyperlinks are limited to the following number of characters: Outlook 2007: 975 characters Outlook 2010: 1033 characters Outlook 2013: 2048 characters The function shortens a URL by substituting the original URL with a shorter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v14.7 - 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