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The Social Media Strip element is a group of social media channels you can add to your email signature. When you add social media links to your email signature, you offer your target market another avenue to continue your business relationship outside traditional communication channels. This also gives you the advantage of attracting new customers while maintaining a healthy professional relationship with your existing customers.
The different social media fields you can insert into your email signature are: Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube.
To add social media links to your email signature, simply drag and drop the element onto the canvas.
The Social Media Strip window is displayed:
Once you have dropped the Social Media Strip element onto your canvas, you can customize it to suit your organization's requirements. You can either keep the default fields in the group or you can set field labels and select how they will be displayed in your email signature.
This page describes the steps on how you can:
- Add another social media channel to the strip
- Remove a social media channel from the strip
- Choose the layout of the social media icons
- Define properties for individual social media icons
Adding social media channel
To add more social media channels:
- Click ADD{FIELD}. Another row is added to the existing row.
You can add as many fields as you want, and if you change your mind later, you can always delete individual fields.
- From Icon, select the required icon you want to display in your signature.
- In Link, you can either enter the URL link or select a link from the placeholder links provided.
If the required URL is the same for everyone in your organization, you can update the placeholder links with the required link. However, if these accounts vary by user and account details are stored in the user details field for your email service (example, Active Directory for Microsoft 365; Google Directory for G Suite), you can add this field to the URL.
To do this, position the cursor at the end of the URL (after the forward-slash) and type an open curly bracket. For example: https://www.facebook.com/{. This displays a list of available attribute fields from which you can make your selection.
- In Alt, by default, an alternate text that will be displayed against the icon in your signature is provided. If required, you can edit it.
- Click OK to confirm the changes else, click CANCEL.
Removing a channel
To remove a channel:
- Click the
against the social media channel you want to remove.
- Click OK to confirm the changes else, click CANCEL.
Choosing the layout
To choose how the icons will be displayed in your signature:
- Select Horizontal, to display your social media channels horizontally in your email signature.
- Select Verticle, to display your social media channels vertically in your email signature.
- Click OK to confirm the changes else, click CANCEL.
Defining individual social media icon properties
To define how the social media icon will look in your email signature:
When you add or edit an icon, the social media icon properties are displayed on the right-hand pane.
Background | Enter or select the background colour of the icons. |
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Foreground | Enter or select the foreground colour of the icons. |
Width |
Enter the width value you want for the icon. You can select the value in pixels or points. |
Height |
Enter the height value you want for the icon. You can select the value in pixels or points. |
Corner Radius | As required, move the slider to increase or decrease the corner of the social media icon. If the slider is set to the minimum setting, the icon will be square, but if the slider is set to the maximum setting, the icon will be round. |
Show Glass | Select to display the social media icon in a glassy finish. If not selected, the social media icon will have a flat appearance. |
By default, all group fields (such as Address {Fields}, Contact {Fields}, Personal {Fields}, All {Fields} or Social Media Strip) inherit group properties - this means that if you want to make any changes, then you make changes to the group. But, you can always make changes to the individual fields and define their properties as well. Depending upon the element type you've added (such as Address {Fields}, Contact {Fields}, Personal {Fields}, All {Fields} or Social Media Strip), the number of tabs within the group properties will slightly vary.
You can also, for more information, see Understanding hierarchies and inheritance.