In MC, I have created a DE and CloudPage with Smart Capture form, to collect email address and some other fields. This CloudPage is the entry/trigger for a journey. What I want to do with the journey, is look up and update or create a Person Account in Service Cloud, but I also want to add that person to a (Sales Cloud) campaign. This last part is the problem.
I have got it to work once, but I found out that the email address was not being populated in the Person Account. Upon correcting this, it stopped working and has never worked since, no matter what I do.
The way the Person Account part is set up is through an Object Activity on 'Account (Person)'. I do a Find and Update, and match on email. When no record is found, I have one created, map last name to last name, email to email. This works, the account is created.
The neat way to work would be to do a Find and Update on the Campaign Member activity as well, but lookup fields are Campaign Member ID, Contact and Campaign, and Lead and Campaign, and in the journey, an account could just have been created but that does not technically give me the Contact (I think?).
The way I think it was working (I've tried so many things I'm a bit lost), is when I had chosen to go for a Create New action. Required fields are Campaign ID (which I have) and either Contact ID or Lead ID. I do not have those. But Account is optional, so I selected Account and selected SalesforceObjectID from the Journey Event Data (since this should be the id of the account that was just created in the previous step of the journey). When I then selected Contact ID, one option is to 'Assign to the Person in the Journey'. I selected this option, Saved, could not click Next, clicked another field, Canceled, could then click Next anyway, and that was it.
However, this does not work (anymore).
I also thought that if the Contact ID was really required, I could do an 'Account (Person)' Object activity first, have that create the Person Account, then in the next step do a 'Contact' Object activity, both with a lookup on Email. The second activity would then provide me with the SalesforceObjectID for the Contact as well, so I could use that in a Find and Update action in the Campaign Member activity.
No matter what I do, I cannot seem to add this newly created Account/Contact to a Campaign.
Please help!