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You can create Newsletter Subscription Widgets for any newsletter you want to promote.

1. MailJet Configuration

If you want to establish and promote a new newsletter, e.g. for a specific solution, you must have a contact list created in MailJet.

  1. Log in to you MailJet account

  2. In the menu “Contacts”, please select “Contact lists”

  3. Click “Create a contact list”

  4. Provide a name for the contact list

Please follow the internal naming policy: WEB | Topic | local subaccount

Examples: WEB | Water | SE; WEB | Industries | DE

This is the organizational name for Contentstack.

  1. Select “empty list”

  2. Save

  3. Remember this name for the use in the newsletter subscription widget.

  4. Remember the ID to get the newletter created in Contentstack. (see chapter 2. Contentstack configuration)

Note: The process has changed with the new “Manage Newsletter Subscription page”.

1.1 Mailjet Footer templates

If you want to guide users to the “Manage Newsletter Subscription page”, please use the template “Template Footer-Manage Newsletter Subscriptions”.

Do not copy the footer into another template. If you put it at the wrong place, Mailjet would still take it’s default one in addition.

Do not change the links in that footer.

In Mailjet you will find two different Footer templates.

  1. “Unsubscribe” from this newsletter

    1. (lightbulb) If you don’t add it to your newsletter, Mailjet will send its default “unsubcribe” footer because it is legally binding.

Example Mailjet Template “Unsubscribe” from the newsletter sent.

  1. “Manage Newsletter Subscriptions”

    1. (lightbulb) To be used if you offer more than one (general) newsletter.

    2. Use this template to guide users to our website and

    3. Prevent users from unsubscribing There may be specific newsletters a subscriber would like to get instead.

Example Mailjet Template “Unsubscribe” or “Manage your newsletter subscriptions”

Do not change the links in the footer. On order to be GDPR conform, we added encrypted the user email address on the link ?contactId={{mj:contact.ID}}.

(lightbulb) You can, however, update your local language text, if need be.

2. Contentstack Configuration

In order to add the Mailjet contact list to the widget, you need to get the newsletter created in Contentstack. Please create a Support Ticket providing the following details:

Summary: Request for Specific Newsletter

In the Description please provide

  • *Internal name (Organiziational Name for ContentStack, Name of the Mailjet contact list).

  • *Title (The Display title in the manage subscription page)

    • Please provide Titel and ‘optional Description’ in English and your local language.

  • *ContactlistID (MailjetID)

  • *Locale (your local website)

  • *Desired Publication date

    • The Newsletter will be visible in the Manage Newsletter Subscriptions page (frontend) from date day.

You will get an email information when the newsletter is ready for use in the Newsletter Subscription widget.

3. Create a Newsletter Subscription Widget for a specific newsletter

Before you embed a widget into a content block, you will have to create it. The widget will be a CTA button following the FA website guidelines

  1. In Contentstack, select the Content Type “Newsletter Subscription Widget” (1: Create a Web Page → Content Options → Newsletter Subscription Widget).

  2. Click “+ New Entry” and edit the settings and texts for the subscription widget

  3. Select the Newsletter “Existing entry” after it had been created by the Support team (see no. 2 above and FAQ).You can open the widget in the page or as a modal. “Use modal” is activated as default.

  4. Provide a “Modal CTA title” . This is the CTA button text, which would also appear at the top of the modal,

  5. “Modal CTA Subtitle” would appear in the Modal only.


  1. Save and publish the Newsletter Subscription Widget.

  2. In Contentstack, go to the content block where you want to add the subscription widget and select “Newsletter Subscription Widget”.

4. Manage Newsletter Subscriptions page

With the publication of a new newsletter, this newsletter will automatically appear in your local “Manage Newsletter Subscriptions” page.

Its url: /fa/news/newsletter/subscriptions

The “Manage Newsletter Subscription” page has been implemented into all local websites. After users subscribed to any newsletter, they will be linked to that page when they confirm the subscription using the “double opt-in” link.

If you don’t want to promote any specific newsletters, there is no action required from your side.

If you want to promote specific local newsletter, it is highly recommended to make use of the “Manage Newsletter subscriptions” page and use the according Footer template in Mailjet.

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