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Creating Dynamics 365 Marketing Email Templates Explained!

by Mo Faheem

Emails templates in Dynamics 365 Marketing doesn’t only mean the email layout, colours, look and feel, It represents much more, as users can present several other settings that can ease marketing emails creation. It can unify how emails look and keep the company’s brand identity.

Dynamics 365 Marketing comes with OOB preset templates built to reference most business and marketing use, by editing and configuring templates to meet users’ standards.

OOB Dynamics 365 email templates

Each template has its own set of configuration and identifier, it is made to help users choose which template is right for their upcoming campaign, and enable users to reuse previously created templates.

PurposeMarket typeOptimized forVisual Style
Structural
Announcement
Birthday
Blog
Promotion
Information
Welcome
Others …
B2B
B2C
B2B & B2C
Wide reach
Mobile
Desktop
Light
Dark
Colourful
Other

Creating Email Template

Email templates can be created from the pre-existing email by creating a blank design template, users can create their own templates using the designer tool, or using HTML code.

Dynamic Content and Content Assist

Using “Content Assist” both dynamic content and static can be added to the email body or other fields such as the subject, sender and recipient. This data can be set to present information from the contact record (the recipient of the email), from ContentSetting, Form Submission or related to the Message.

Dynamics assist

It is important to mention that this data will be relating to its sources as per the email itself and the Customer Journey that it belongs to. For example, suppose the following code is included to show the sender’s main address {{msdyncrm_contentsettings.msdyncrm_addressmain}}, and there are multiple ContentSettings configured. In that case, Dynamics will use the ContentSetting that is chosen in the Customer Journey to update this data.

Design Email Templates

Dynamics 365 Marketing users can decide how to generate their emails and templates from two options. Either use the built-in design functionality or use any HTML code editor. In the canvas, users strat in the designer tap, from the left-hand side Toolbox, users can drag and drop one of the below components directly to the canvas after setting up the layout and the section.

Designer, HTML and Preview tabs in email template canvas

Add a component from the toolbox

  • Text
  • Image
  • Divider
  • Button
  • Content block
  • Video
  • Custom Code
  • Event registration
  • Marketing page
  • Event
  • QR Code
  • Survey

Otherwise, users with more HTML experience can use the built-in HTML editor to either edit their work done by in the designer tab, or place HTML code created elsewhere.

Email preview

Dynamics 365  users can view their work using Basic or Inbox Previews.  Using the Basic Preview allows users to view the email in Desktop, Tablet (Landscape and Portrait) and Mobile (Landscape and Portrait) with no restrictions. It is important to mention that Basic Preview testing is a good tool to check how responsive is the email design, which ensures readability on mobile devices.

Inbox Preview is available if Litmus is enabled with a limited quota of views, that rests monthly. Litmus renders the email design in actual web browsers, email clients, and many versions to ensure high acceptance and compatibility.

Spam Checker and machine learning

As with the marketing email, users can run spam-check at the email templates to guarantee that all produced email using the template will meet the required standards.

Email spam checker needs to be enabled in the Machine leaning setting, under the marketings settings.

Marketing app > Settings > Machine learing settings

Email Functionality and Status

It is important to mention that unlike the Marketing email, there is a status such as draft or live; Marketing email templates have no statuses and can be used in email messages once saved.

Other functions, such as AB testing and test send, cannot be performed on templates!

A list of emails where the template is used can be shown under Related tab > Marketing Emails.

Another important note, the used email template under the marketing email can be changed after it was set.

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