Salesforce Marketing Cloud API Authentication using Server-Side JavaScript

In order to interact with Salesforce Marketing Cloud APIs you need to create an installed package in your Marketing Cloud account first. Marketing Cloud uses installed packages to help authenticate users and API requests. To create and install packages you must have the Administrator or Marketing Cloud Administrator role assigned to your profile. Marketing Cloud …

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Create a Sales Cloud-integrated lead capture form using AMPscript

SmartCapture forms provide a quick, user-friendly way to create simple forms and use them in Salesforce Marketing Cloud journeys, but they are not very versatile and often can create more problems than they actually solve. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a form using HTML and AMPscript and include functions that will …

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Send a triggered email using AMPscript

Triggered sends allow you to automatically send personalized and timely messages to your subscribers. They are sent to an individual subscriber in response to a subscriber action. Common use cases include sending welcome emails to new subscribers, service case notifications or post-purchase thank you notes to clients. They can be personalized just as any other …

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Create a SmartCapture form prefilled (prepopulated) with Salesforce data

Smart Capture allows you to easily create forms on your Cloud Pages to collect information about your subscribers and then use that data for future sends and campaigns. While creating a Smart Capture form doesn't require any coding skills and can be done using only the drag-and-drop editor, adding a simple script to your form …

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Make a simple API call in Salesforce Marketing Cloud using AMPscript

In this tutorial, I would like to show you how to make a simple API call using the HTTPGet function. In AMPscript, there are three HTTP functions used to interact with third-party APIs (HTTPGet, HTTPPost, HTTPPostTo). The HTTPGet function retrieves content from a publicly accessible URL. In the ampscript.guide, you can see an example of …

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