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API / SFMC / SSJS June 29, 2020
READ MOREThis article pulls from an earlier article I made about Script.Util functions in SSJS (Rest API Method in SSJS). An issue many people face when trying to have their systems talk to each other is that if there is not a pre-existing app in SFMC for their service, how do we make them talk to […]
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SFMC / SSJS / WSProxy June 2, 2020
READ MOREThis is the third part in an ongoing series, please visit here to read the previous article. This article is intended to give a general overview on SFMC Server-side JavaScript Platform Library and its unique capabilities. Salesforce Marketing Cloud has two distinct libraries for Server-side JavaScript: Platform and Core Library. For this article, we will be concentrating on […]
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This is the second part in an ongoing series, please visit here to read the first article. This article is intended to give a general overview on SFMC Server-side JavaScript and its unique capabilities. Background First major point to make is that SFMC SSJS is here to stay and in fact may even play a […]
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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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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 […]
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As many of you may know, I am a big fan of the undocumented REST API endpoints. I do have my first dive into them in my previous post Access Script Activities via API. For this post, I want to highlight the Undocumented API endpoints for Query Activities. I do want to point out that […]