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Hi, I am passing a URL within a Custom Field that is individual for each contact.  I get the URL to populate in the email when it is sent, but it is displaying the full URL.  Is there a way to have display text for the URL without passing in the url wrapped in an HREF tag? Thanks, Julie ... View more

I am trying to do an SV_ADD but it is failing when using a large amount of contacts (12,000). I have read that you allow up to 20,000 but I am well below that and still getting errors. It fails with error "No activityType specified." However, the activity type is right at the beginning of the string. Here is the code I am using to upload the contacts:     public static string bulkUrlEncoded(AuthenticationData authdata, string data, IList<string> listIds) { if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(data)) { throw new ArgumentException("No data to be uploaded specified.", "data"); } if (listIds.Count == 0) { throw new ArgumentException("No target list ID(s) Specified.", "listIds"); } string encodeddata = "&data=" + HttpUtility.UrlEncode(data); //SV_ADD is add contact, REMOVE_CONTACTS_FROM_LISTS self explanatory. CLEAR_CONTACTS_FROM_LISTS //sent with no data will clear the list. int i = 0; string JoinedURIs = ""; for (i = 0; i < listIds.Count; i++) { JoinedURIs = JoinedURIs + "&lists=" + authdata.AccountContactListsUri + "/" + listIds[i]; } string fullrequest = "activityType=SV_ADD" + encodeddata + JoinedURIs; return Utility.urlEncodedPost(authdata, authdata.accountActivitiesUri, fullrequest); } public static string urlEncodedPost(AuthenticationData Authdata, string URI, string content) { WebResponse response = null; try { // Create a request WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(URI); // Set API+UN/PWD Credentials request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(Authdata.AccountUserName, Authdata.Password); // Set Method type request.Method = "POST"; // Create POST data and convert it to a byte array. string postData = content; byte[] byteArray = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(postData); // Set the ContentType of Request request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"; // Set the ContentLength request.ContentLength = byteArray.Length; // Get the request stream. Stream dataStream = request.GetRequestStream(); // Write the data to the request stream. dataStream.Write(byteArray, 0, byteArray.Length); // Close the Stream object. dataStream.Close(); // Get the response. response = request.GetResponse(); // Get the stream containing content returned by the server. dataStream = response.GetResponseStream(); // Open the stream using a StreamReader for easy access. StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(dataStream); // Read the content. string responseFromServer = reader.ReadToEnd(); // Clean up the streams. reader.Close(); dataStream.Close(); response.Close(); return (responseFromServer); } catch (WebException ex) { StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(ex.Response.GetResponseStream()); String responseBody = reader.ReadToEnd(); throw new WebException(responseBody, ex, ex.Status, response); } }  I am creating the encodeddata by starting with this:   public string buildTextFileHeader() { string rec = string.Empty; rec += "Email Address,First Name,Last Name,Job Title,Company Name,Work Phone,"; rec += "Home Phone,Address Line 1,Address Line 2,City,State,Country,Postal Code,"; rec += "Custom Field 1,Custom Field 2,Custom Field 3,Custom Field 4,Custom Field 5,"; rec += "Custom Field 6,Custom Field 7,Custom Field 8,Custom Field 9,Custom Field 10,"; rec += "Custom Field 11,Custom Field 12,Custom Field 13,Custom Field 14,Custom Field 15,"; rec += "Email Type"; return rec; } And then adding each contact record, using commas to delimit the fields. We are also only doing one list at a time, so the JoinedURIs only has one “&lists=…” in it.  And I am making sure to enclose any fields that could potentially contain commas in double quotes.   So what could be causing the error? ... View more