Is there a way to send an email on a specific day of the week in Journey Builder? I know there are the options "wait x days until 2pm", but I would like to send an email out on the 2nd Monday after signup without having to resort to queries and automations.
asked Sep 14, 2016 at 23:40
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There's no way to do this using the Journey Builder UI. We've built a Custom Activity for Journey Builder which does exactly that, but that's a lot more effort than creating queries and automations.
answered Sep 15, 2016 at 9:53
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Thanks for your answer - I eventually found a workaround using automations. Commented Sep 30, 2016 at 3:38
My solution to this was to create a "Helper Automation" consisting of a query activity which retrieves the "Day" value of the date field and puts that in another field in the Data Extension. Then I had the Journey wait a few hours until this hourly query had run. Next was using a conditional filter to see what day the new field value is (Monday, Tuesday, Saturday etc.), and wait an appropriate amount of days (wait 1 day, 4 days, 7 days) before starting the next steps.
answered Sep 30, 2016 at 3:38