Deletion of contact(s) removes the contact information from the Marketing Cloud completely from All Subscribers, Mobile Connect, Mobile Push, and Contact Builder. Once the deletion request is initiated, those contacts that needs to be deleted enters the Suppression Period before it gets deleted.
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Marketing Cloud : Insert into Subscriber List using AMPScript
SSJS provides a simpler solution to add a subscriber to the list. However, with AMPscript, there is no one liner solution. We need to make use of SubscriberList
object.
Marketing Cloud : Programmatically Export Data Extension
Exporting a Data Extension through Marketing Cloud interface is possible through Email Studio or through Contact Builder. Bulk exporting of Data Extensions is not yet available as of this writing and is painful when we have to export them.
Continue reading “Marketing Cloud : Programmatically Export Data Extension”Marketing Cloud : Version Control System for Developers
Apart from Configurations, Email Templates, Code Snippets in Content Blocks, Cloud Pages with SSJS, AMPScript are developer oriented items. A developer like me who always have worked with the version control system would prefer the same in Marketing Cloud. Unfortunately, it does not have an out-of-the box feature that supports Git or other source control systems.
But thanks to the Visual Studio Code extension – vscode-ampscript. There is a workaround for this!
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There are times when we need to integrate both Automation Studio and Journey Builder like sending an email to a set of audience after running a script in a data extension. There are some reasons we need Journey Builder and not Automation Studio to send email:
- Utilizing the Splits – Decision, Random, Engagement
- Do some updates to the connected SFDC environment like creating a task or a case or updating an object.
However, we cannot execute a script or run an SQL query in Journey Builder. Say, to clean up the Data Extension or merge the Data Extensions before sending the bulk email. In such cases, we may need to rely on the Automation Studio and then call the Journey Builder upon these activities gets completed.
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Marketing Cloud comes with the default preference center to manage the subscription and profile information of the subscribers. It is possible to create a custom page to create it!
(This is a skeleton or boilerplate without any fancy styles. You can use this to build one for your requirement)
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Downloading Audit Trail is not a direct or a single step process in Marketing Cloud. We need to utilize the Automation Studio to achieve this.
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File Transfer activity in the Automation Studio is used to securely transfer files between the file locations – Safehouse and FTP Locations. Read more to know the how to create the activity and manage the files.
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Audit Trail is required in various scenarios even as part of compliance. Tracking user logins, changes made by the users to the roles and permissions and security settings is available as an additional feature (optional) in Salesforce Marketing Cloud. You can enable Audit Trail in Setup > Security > Security Settings. You can find “Enable Audit Logging Data Collection” – Enable it.
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For Marketing Cloud developers who used to and wanted to have the features of IDE, the default browser based editor is a nightmare to edit long scripts. Here comes a savior for those!
Now you can connect your Marketing Cloud with your local Visual Studio Code with a super simple extension – AMPscript by Agadzhanov Sergey.
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One of the special superbadge by Salesforce through Trailhead – Lightning Web Components Specialist. Right from the prerequisites, every module and challenge is a nicely curated contents to master Lightning Web Components (LWC). This superbadge in specific helps building reusable granular components. In fact, you need to have better coding style to pass the challenges.
Continue reading to see the prerequisites and guide to arrive at the solution faster.
Continue reading “LWC Specialist Superbadge : Guide to Challenges”LWC Specialist Superbadge : Challenge 15, 16 Guide
This is not a complete solution for challenges, but will guide you when you are stuck! Read the superbadge page completely. Most of the challenges are interlinked and the text is not in the same order of the challenge.
For other challenges, visit the Guide to Challenges.
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This is not a complete solution for challenges, but will guide you when you are stuck! Read the superbadge page completely. Most of the challenges are interlinked and the text is not in the same order of the challenge.
For other challenges, visit the Guide to Challenges.
Continue reading “LWC Specialist Superbadge : Challenge 14 Guide”LWC Specialist Superbadge : Challenge 13 Guide
This is not a complete solution for challenges, but will guide you when you are stuck! Read the superbadge page completely. Most of the challenges are interlinked and the text is not in the same order of the challenge.
For other challenges, visit the Guide to Challenges.
Continue reading “LWC Specialist Superbadge : Challenge 13 Guide”LWC Specialist Superbadge : Challenge 12 Guide
This is not a complete solution for challenges, but will guide you when you are stuck! Read the superbadge page completely. Most of the challenges are interlinked and the text is not in the same order of the challenge.
For other challenges, visit the Guide to Challenges.
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