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Forward to a Friend Not Working

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I've set up a Forward to a Friend marketing page, but when I test it, I never receive the fowarded email. 

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  • cloflyMao Profile Picture
    25,210 on at

    Hi sunkat,

    Could you share detailed steps of your process?

    As the documentation introduced about Forward to a friend type marketing page: 

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/marketing/create-deploy-marketing-pages#types-of-marketing-pages

    We should open Forward to a Friend page via the link in marketing email, otherwise it won't work.

    Please to refer to following sections for how to set Forward to a Friend page in content setting and then add the link to FTF page to marketing email.

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/marketing/dynamic-email-content#use-content-settings-to-set-up-repositories-of-standard-and-required-values-for-email-messages

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/marketing/dynamic-email-content#expressions-created-by-assist-edit

    When everything is configured well and after a test, 

    An insights data record "Forwarded emails" will be created in Marketing email > Insights > Delivery > Results by domain.(The domain is mailbox of contact who submitted forwarded form.)

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    In addition, we will see that the email is logged as being opened by an unknown contact.(the friend)

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    Regards,

    Clofly

  • cloflyMao Profile Picture
    25,210 on at

    Hi sunkat,

    Have you solved the problem successfully?

    Regards,

    Clofly

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    Defne Ayanoglu Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi Sunkat, 

    Thank you for your question. 

    Would you care to share more details on the issue, walking through the steps so we can better identify the issue?

    Regards, 
    Defne from D365 Marketing team

  • sunkat Profile Picture
    65 on at

    I will try this next week (deadlines, sorry!) and let you know the results. Thank you for responding! 

  • sunkat Profile Picture
    65 on at

    I'm going to work on this next and I will let you know the outcome. Thanks for reaching out!

  • cloflyMao Profile Picture
    25,210 on at

    Hi sunkat,

    Did you succeed? :)

    Regards,

    Clofly

  • sunkat Profile Picture
    65 on at

    No, I do not have this feature working yet. Below are the steps and screenshots showing what I've done:

    Create a forward to a friend (type) marketing page, live:

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    Adding the marketing page to the Content Settings > Forward to a Friend

    Content assist editor > static content > marketing page > forward to a friend > fullpageurl

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    Content assit > static content > marketing page > forward to a friend > fullpageurl

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    Created a test email and added the Forward to a Friend link in the footer under the address

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    sent the email to myself

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    after I click the forward to a friend link, it opens the page in a browser (I don't why i'ts duplicating the email address; I only typed in the first name and email)

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    Once I hit the submit button, the page redirects to our website, which is how I set it up

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    On the insights tab of the forward to a friend marketing page, it shows the form submission

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    The problem is, I never receive the forwarded email, which I sent my gmail account.

  • cloflyMao Profile Picture
    25,210 on at

    Hi, 

    I followed your steps and sent test email to an Outlook mailbox and opened it in desktop client, but I didn't reproduce your issue, 

    the forwarded email was sent to my gmail account in a few seconds after submission.

    1. Is there an id parameter in URL when you opened the forward to friend page?

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    2. You could check whether the forwarded email was moved to junk or spam folder

    3. test whether the problem happened to other mailboxes. 

    Regards,

    Clofly

  • sunkat Profile Picture
    65 on at

    Sorry, I don't know what you mean by URL parameter but below is the URL.

    I've checked my spam folder, and searched my gmail account to no avail.

    Thanks for testing. At least I know it works for you so that is positive.

    wilbert.microsoftcrmportals.com/.../

  • sunkat Profile Picture
    65 on at

    OMG! I got it finally. I don't know what I did differently but it's working. Thank you for your help!

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