Document #334, GoldMine/GoldMine Sales & Marketing HTML Logos
In order to use an image file in a GoldMine template, you must have the images available on a website. The template will be using HTML code. Inserting a picture using the GoldMine toolbar will not work since the HTML code will be pointing to a local file. The file needs to be accessible by anyone from anywhere.
The Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is a simple data format used to create hypertext documents that are portable from one platform to another. An HTML file consists of text, which is displayed to the reader of your HTML document, and tags, which tell the browser how to format that text.
"Tags" are embedded in the text. A tag consists of a "<", a "directive" (case insensitive), optional parameters and a ">". Matched pairs of directives, like "<TITLE>" and "</TITLE>" are used to delimit text which is to appear in a special place or style.
Links to other documents are in the form
<A HREF="http://www.frontrange.com">FrontRange Solutions</A>
Where "A", "/A" delimit an "anchor", "HREF" introduces a hypertext reference, which in this case is a Uniform Resource Locator (URL). The text "FrontRange Solutions" will be the label appearing on the link in the browser.
An HTML file can contain many features. Below are some other common HTML tags:
<I>, </I> Italic
<B>, </B> Bold
<BR> to separate lines
<P> to separate paragraphs
<HR> puts a horizontal line
<UL> for an unnumbered list
<PRE> for preformatted text
<H1>, <H2>, <H6> for headings
<A HREF=”URL”> </A> for a hyperlink tag
<IMG SRC=”file name”> to place an image
There are 3 steps that need to be accomplish:
1. Have a website that will be hosting the picture file.
2. Create an HTML file that will be referenced in the GoldMine HTML template. This file will have the path
to the actual picture logo and any other HTML relevant information.
3. Create a GoldMine HTML template with the proper HTML code that will reference to the file you’ve
created on Step 2. The GoldMine template will not show you the actual picture but the HTML code instead.
For more information on using HTML with GoldMine templates, please see the document titled “HTML with GoldMine E-mail Templates” found here:
http://support.frontrange.com/goldmine/gm50_techdocs.asp
Below is an example on how to accomplish these steps.
Note: The example below includes valid links. You can follow the steps and it will work.
The HTML template will include the FrontRange Solutions logo. Our website is http://www.frontrange.com
Our logo is saved on http://www.frontrange.com/images/logo.gif
A simple HTML file can be created using Notepad. However, you can use any HTML editor. In our example, this HTML file will contain the link to the logo on our website. All you need to insert is the actual code to link the image file. GoldMine will be formatting the template in HTML automatically so you do not need to include tags such as <HTML> or <BODY>. In HTML, the code would look as follows:
<IMG SRC=”http://www.frontrange.com/images/logo.gif”>
In our example below, we did not only add a logo but we also added our company name in bold and our team name in italic fonts.
Once you have all your desired information, make sure to save the file as HTML. To preview the results, you can open it using a Web browser. What you see there is what your email recipients will see when they get your HTML template.
Create an HTML template in GoldMine. You will have to insert a link to the HTML file we’ve created on Step 2.
Insert the following HTML code in the place where you want to have the picture logo:
<<file: path to the HTML file>>
For example:
<<file:C:\WINDOWS\Desktop\HTML_Logo\signature.html>>
You can still insert any GoldMine fields that will be merged. You will use the Insert Field icon on the toolbar adding the remaining parts of the template. You can insert other HTML files with more redirectors in the same manner as the first part.
Below is how the template will be displayed in the Document Management Center.
The recipient will get the following email when we use this template. You can also check the Sent Items folder in GoldMine to see how it was sent.
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