Help with Triggered sends

Question

Though this question seems to irrelevant to most of the professionals but I am in need to send out triggered emails via marketing cloud but in order to send out real time triggers such that as soon as a subscribers comes in to the DE or List it should fire an email. I have discussed and came to a conclusion that this can't be done via UI. the only thing I can do is to use API calls.

I have idea about Java but not sure how to connect Marketing cloud instance with Eclipse or any other IDE. I have already integrated Eclipse to my Salesforce service could with the help of some documents but not sure how to connect Marketing cloud with eclipse so that I can use API to send trigger emails.

Any help document or if someone guide me to the correct learning material would be a great help. I have little knowledge about API calls.

Answer 1

This page in the documentation covers Triggered Sends: Triggered Email Scenario Guide For Developers

In it's simplest form, you can do a form POST to an SFMC endpoint with an XML SOAP envelope like this:

<s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope" xmlns:a="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/08/addressing" xmlns:u="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-utility-1.0.xsd">
   <s:Header>
      <o:Security s:mustUnderstand="1" xmlns:o="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-secext-1.0.xsd">
         <o:UsernameToken u:Id="uuid-f4119202-0c6f-4383-9872-4745b39f24f6-1">
            <o:Username>XXXXX</o:Username>
            <o:Password>XXXXX</o:Password>
         </o:UsernameToken>
      </o:Security>
   </s:Header>
   <s:Body xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
      <CreateRequest xmlns="http://exacttarget.com/wsdl/partnerAPI">
         <Options>
            <RequestType>Asynchronous</RequestType>
            <QueuePriority>High</QueuePriority>
         </Options>
         <Objects xsi:type="TriggeredSend">
            <PartnerKey xsi:nil="true"/>
            <ObjectID xsi:nil="true"/>
            <TriggeredSendDefinition>
               <PartnerKey xsi:nil="true"/>
               <ObjectID xsi:nil="true"/>
               <CustomerKey>ETWSEX_TSD</CustomerKey>
            </TriggeredSendDefinition>
            <Subscribers>
               <PartnerKey xsi:nil="true"/>
               <ObjectID xsi:nil="true"/>
               <EmailAddress>[email protected]</EmailAddress>
               <SubscriberKey>[email protected]</SubscriberKey>
               <Attributes>
                  <Name>FromName</Name>
                  <Value>From John Doe</Value>
               </Attributes>
               <Attributes>
                  <Name>HTML__Content</Name>
                  <Value>&lt;b>Sent Asynchronously!&lt;/b></Value>
               </Attributes>
            </Subscribers>
         </Objects>
      </CreateRequest>
   </s:Body>
</s:Envelope>

If you'd like to utilize the Java SDK that SFMC provides, you can also do it that way, but it's more involved.

If you're familiar with REST APIs, then you can also trigger emails with SFMC's REST API.