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 of the 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 customise them to suit your organisation'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 on 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: 

1. 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.
   
   
2. From Icon, select the required icon you want to display in your signature. 
   
   
3. In Link, you can either enter the URL link or select a link from placeholder links provided.
   
   If the required URL is the same for everyone in your organisation, you can just update placeholder links with the required link. However, if these accounts vary by user and account details are stored in the user details fields 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.
   
   
4. 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.
    
5. Click OK to confirm the changes else click Cancel.

Removing a channel 

To remove a channel:

1. Click the against the social media channel you want to remove.
   
   
2. Click OK to confirm the changes else click Cancel.

Choosing the layout

To choose how the icons will be displayed in your signature:

1. Select Horizontal, to display your social media channels horizontally in your email signature.
   
   
2. Select Verticle, to display your social media channels vertically in your email signature.
   
   
3. 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.