Manage Contacts and Leads in Marketing Cloud Journeys directly from your Salesforce org

This week Salesforce Labs has released a Lightning Component which, no doubt, will make the life easier for anyone working with Journey Builder and Marketing Cloud Connect. If you have multiple Journeys set up in your account with different Salesforce Entry Events, you probably know the pain of finding out which Sales/Service Cloud Contacts and …

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Add subscribers to a Journey from a CloudPage using Fire Entry Event

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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Create a CloudPages form with an image/file upload option

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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Trigger SMS text messages using Server-Side JavaScript

In order to be able to programmatically trigger text messages, you will need to have MobileConnect enabled in Marketing Cloud's Mobile Studio. You will also need to be able to create an installed package in your Marketing Cloud account to interact with Salesforce Marketing Cloud APIs. If you have both in place, we can start …

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Subscribe to Automation Studio notifications via SOAP API

If you have used Automation Studio to build workflows on autopilot, you are certainly aware of the importance of monitoring. Checking manually the execution status of every automation in your account is tedious and exhausting. Sometimes, you need to be notified in real time so you can fix eventual issues. That is why having email …

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