In one of my previous posts, Simple Marketing Cloud App hosted on a CloudPage, I have outlined a solution for creating apps for use in Marketing Cloud and hosting them on CloudPages. While you can choose to hide a CloudPage from being indexed by Google, it can still be accessed by anyone who has the link. …
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There are many use cases, especially in the transactional space, where sometimes there is a need to display partially masked data to the end-user – exactly in the same way as you would see it when logging in to Marketing Cloud, when the system tells you which email address it sent the verification code to: …
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The Wait Until API Event Activity is a new Journey Builder activity released as part of the April 2021 Salesforce Marketing Cloud Release. It allows you to create a real-time experience for contacts by allowing an external event to trigger an action mid-journey. You can add the Wait Until API Event activity at any point …
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Custom Multi-Select Picklists in Sales/Service Cloud allow users to select one or more values from a predefined list: When a user picks more than one value, the selected values show in a field separated by a semicolons: The values will be in the same, semicolon-delimited format, if you synchronize the picklist field into Marketing Cloud …
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Errors and exceptions are inevitable, no matter how defensively you code your CloudPage. There is always a possibility of a human error, for example if the person who creates and sends the email doesn't pass all the parameters to your CloudPage correctly. There are also things that sometimes cannot be prevented, for example Marketing Cloud …
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