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As a warning, this article assumes certain knowledge. This link should provide you with any background or refresher information if needed. This is the second article (but only half step forward) in an ongoing series, please visit here to read the first article. This article is intended to give some background on what Server-side JavaScript […]
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Why do we not talk about it? Marketing Cloud Server-side JavaScript is one of those topics that most people do not like talking about. Most people seem to acknowledge it exists, and then move on to another topic as fast as possible. Why? It is a very powerful language and has a plethora of uses, […]
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Content Builder has a great Send Preview and Test Send process inside the User Interface, but that does not help if you need to automate your previews or test sends. You could utilize some methods I have seen, including creating ‘test’ Data Extensions that have only internal contacts. You then building a Send Definition using […]
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API / SFMC / SSJS / WSProxy March 15, 2020
READ MOREMost of the time, the best method is to just export the data extension and then import it again into All Subscribers. For one time bulk imports, this is by far the most efficient method. Alas, as with any solution in Salesforce Marketing Cloud, it comes with a ton of ‘but’ statements. For instance, what […]
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Now, you may be confused by what the fudge I mean by ‘Dynamically Creating Variables’ as in its essence, a variable is itself, dynamic. Basically what I mean is I am going to show you some AMPscript that will loop through and create multiple variables without needing to write out each one. Pretty neat, right? […]
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Although the alerts provided by SFMC on Triggered Send issues and errors is very helpful, it can take many hours before they show up, which can sometimes lead to significant backups in your processes. To get around this delay, I have come up with a monitoring automation that will give almost ‘real time’ alerts on […]
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I will give a quick overview on setting up an API integration package and then utilizing it in POSTman.
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Many people do not realize that the SQL used in SFMC Query Activities follows Three-Valued Logic, which essentially means there are three possible outcomes for any Boolean value: True False Unknown(NULL) A value that is NULL therefore cannot be true or false. How is this relevant? Well, this causes issues with conditional statements in SQL […]
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API / Data Extensions / SFMC / SSJS / WSProxy December 6, 2019
READ MOREI have created a more modernized version of this in a different article. I left this article here as a reference should anyone want to take other aspects of it that may not be in the new version. I would highly recommend using the new version I created instead of this one though. A common […]
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Have you ever had a script activity that just kept running over 30 minutes, but it wouldn’t break into individual pieces well? Its a struggle to find a solution because it’s not like you can easily break out of your loops after a set amount of time, right? Wrong. There are a couple different tricks […]