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You can now choose if you want to create a new source using an RSS/ATOM feed (URL) or by uploading a .csv, .json or a .zip (FILE).

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titleHow to set the .csv file?

The .csv file must contain the following items:

  • Title: content title
  • Summary: content short description
  • Image: link of the image, hosted on your website, to be retrieved
  • LinkURL: main URL, where is the content itself
  • LinkText: text in the URL
  • ContentDate: publishing date or a date you want to associate to the content
  • ContentKey: keyword to identify each content (it can be used to update an existing content or in the search bar in the page View contents)

 


Here below an example of a .csv file.

Excel
nameMailUp_ebook_eng.xls

The same file is available here >> MailUp_ebook_eng.csv 


Some useful tips:

  • If you don't have all the items listed above or you prefer to not insert some of them, add two double quotes. The platform will automatically fill in this info.

Title,Summary,Image,LinkURL,LinkText,ContentDate,ContentKey

Email marketing summer guide,"4 Tactics to Freshen Up Your Summer Email Campaigns","https://lp.mailup.com/it/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/Cover-Summer-2016.png","https://lp.mailup.com/it/guida-campagne-email-estate/","",2017-06-20T12:30:00Z,""

  • Use double quotes to include long sentences that may include punctuation "Check out 15 top-notch email marketing examples, - and learn what makes them so effective"
  • Choose CSV format while saving the file.
  • Launch Notepad to check if the saved file contains any misspelling or too many double quotes.

 


To know more about .csv format take a look at this page.

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Once uploaded the file, click on Save button.

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Note

Each source may contain up to 5,000 contents.

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Now that you have imported content in you have to decide how to handle them. Choose if you want to:

  • replace existing content with new content. This option erases all existing content and replaces it with the newly uploaded ones.
  • add new content to existing content. To overwrite an existing content, use the same reference ContentKey. If you're not using the ContentKey value, all contents with a new ContentDate, LinkURL or Title will be added to the source as new content.

 


Once selected the way to handle existing content, you can:

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Upload a new file by choosing to "browse" or drag & drop it and then select "Save". 


Note

If, after having uploaded a new file, the save button is disabled, make sure you have selected one of the radio buttons to handle existing content.

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