It's very likely that at some point in your career you will inherit or take over a Salesforce Marketing Cloud instance that has been set up and used by someone else in the past. In case it hasn't been well documented, it can be a struggle to understand all the data related processes and clean …
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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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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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In programming languages, loops are a basic, yet a very powerful and indispensable concept. They shorten the code and reduce the need to repeat tasks. A loop is a set of instructions to be executed until a certain condition is met. In this article, we will focus on the most fundamental kind of loop, the …
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In order to programmatically update the settings of an existing Data Extension, we will interact with Salesforce Marketing Cloud's SOAP Web Services API using WSProxy. Code snippets in this article will show you how to update a Data Extension, so that a non-sendable Data Extension is turned into a sendable Data Extension, but you can …
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