Firing an Entry Event is great for injecting contacts into a Salesforce Marketing Cloud journey, especially if you need to be able to inject them from an external system or a website. It's also useful when you're creating a custom form on a CloudPage and would like to replicate the behavior of SmartCapture forms, which …
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Spinners are loading indicators that can be shown when retrieving data or performing other operations. We will use a common spinner that Salesforce Lightening users are familiar with - the full documentation can be found here. This spinner is a Lightning component, which means that it cannot be directly used on a CloudPage. My awesome …
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As a Salesforce Marketing Cloud developer, you have certainly been caught up in this loop: Develop the CloudPage > Save and Publish > Wait 2, 3 or even 5 minutes > Check the results. Moreover, if you are not debugging correctly, you can lose a lot of time between looking for the problem and waiting …
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The HTML <input> tag specifies an input field where the user can enter data. An input field can vary in many ways, depending on the type attribute. The <input> elements with type="file" let the user choose one or more files from their device storage. The file can then be manipulated using JavaScript in order to …
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"Hope for the best and prepare for the worst" should be every marketer's motto when it comes to creating contextual personalized content. Your company's reputation could be easily tarnished if you send out buggy emails, that's why exception handling should be an essential element of your email strategy. In this article, you will learn about …
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