Preview and test your content preview-test

About preview & test about

Once your content has been defined, you can preview its content before sending the message. This is a crucial step to ensure that it is accurate but also free of errors both in content and personalization settings.

You can also send test deliveries of your email messages to specific recipients or subscribers for testing and validation, and check their rendering in popular desktop, mobile and web-based clients.

CAUTION
When previewing a message or sending proofs, only profile personalization data is displayed. Personalization based on context data, such as event information, can only be tested in the context of a journey. Learn how to test personalization in this use case.

All these actions can be performed using the Simulate Content button, which is accessible from the edit content screen of your message, or from the email and web designers for the email and web channels.

Note that you need to have the Manage Simulate Content permission included in the Content Library Manager product profile. Learn more.

Testing using test profiles or sample input data methods

You can preview and test your content using:

  • Test profiles

    Use test profiles to preview your content, send email proofs and check email rendering. If you added personalized fields, you can check how they are displayed using test profile data. For more information, refer to these sections:

    ➡️ Select test profiles

    ➡️ Preview your content using test profiles

    ➡️ Send email proofs

    ➡️ Check email rendering

    ➡️ Preview and proof your email (video)

  • Sample input data

    Journey optimizer allows you to test different variants of your content by previewing it and sending proofs using sample input data uploaded from a CSV / JSON file, or added manually.

    All the profiles attributes used in your content for personalization are automatically detected by the system and can be used for your tests to create multiple variants.

    ➡️ Learn how to test your content using sample input data

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    NOTE
    This features is currently available to all customers as a public beta for the Email, SMS and Push notification channels only.

How-to video video-preview

Learn how to use test profiles to test email rendering across inboxes, preview your personalized emails against test profiles, and send proofs.

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