This meeting involved the State Changers discussing the challenges of setting up a dynamic Mailchimp email template via its Mandrill transactional service. The central problem lay in identifying the ID of a button in order to inject a URL into it, which led to an exploration of the Mailchimp platform.
The meeting entailed a thorough search through the platform's settings, advanced title attributes, and content blocks without a clear resolution. The discussion explored the potential need for inserting code, options of on-platform operations, and the limitations of the existing setup. Mailchimp and Mandrill documentation were perused to try to understand how to apply dynamic elements to the template. A concept "MC edit", mentioned in the documentation, appeared to be a crucial attribute for enabling dynamic content in templates, but its implementation was not clear within the Mailchimp interface. The meeting concluded with the decision to pivot to SendGrid due to the immediate need for the implementation and the familiar ease of setup with SendGrid. Despite a lack of definite resolution, the discussion offered a detailed look at troubleshooting within Mailchimp and could prove useful for others experiencing similar difficulties. It's also noteworthy that there were references to potentially needing to start from scratch with a new template or export the current template to Mandrill for manual edits. However, this was not explored due to time constraints.
(Source: Office Hours 12/5 )
