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The Salesforce Marketing Cloud is the leading 1:1 digital marketing platform, connecting companies with customers in entirely new ways. Platform APIs and SDKs enable developers to manage and automate marketing campaigns and extend the Marketing Cloud with integrated apps and app extensions.

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Filter Not Working For List

I'm trying to start using the Fuel SDK in Rails, but I can't seem to get a simple filter to work. Retrieving without a filter works fine, and returns the whole set (all 36 or whatever lists). I need ...
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Alternative to Data Relationship for updating a new user attribute

Our users all have an existing "College" attribute but I want to add an attribute for "College Code" so that user Jane Doe with American University as her College will now have the attribute 7702 ...
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How to recognize duplicate records and other criteria within a Data Extension

Currently the AMPscript based landing page features an indication that shows how many individuals are signed up for an event. This number is arrived at simply by ROWCOUNT to see how many fields in the ...
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Sending emails from multiple Email Send Definitions to specific records in a single Data Extension

Is is possible to have multiple Email Send Definitions send email to specific records/rows in a single Data Extension. If yes, how do you specify the data extension records that you want to send the ...
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Multiple Filters on a SDK Request

on https://code.exacttarget.com/sdks/fuel-sdk-interacting-list-subscriber it shows how to filter by a SubscriberKey, but how would I filter by ListID and Status?
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How can you retrieve number of records in a Data Extension using SOAP API?

I am trying to figure out how to use the ExactTarget SOAP API to retrieve the number of records in a DataExtensionObject for a given DataExtensionObject key, for example: <ObjectType>...
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ExactTarget - how to prevent a SSJS Send(); function from being executed when Landing Page loaded?

I currently have the following Landing Page code in place which is to be placed in a Script Activity and run on schedule every day. var uis = "z_Testing" var esd = Send.Definition.Init(uis); var ...
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Start a Query Activity

Is there any sample code available that would show how to run an existing query activity via the SOAP api in php? There is a .net example on @Code but I'm not entirely sure of how to translate that to ...
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How do you pull the subject line of an RSS feed "blog" into an ExactTarget email with AmpScript?

One of our templates utilizes Amp Scripting to pull the subject line from an RSS feed. The code we use for the subject is as follows: %%=v(@title)=%% %%=Format(Now(1), "MMMM d, yyyy")=%% When we ...
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Dynamic From Names Based On Email Content

What I have is multiple email templates that are associated with different organizations and artists in one ExactTarget account. I want to be able to set an AMPscript or SSJS variable that would be ...
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Get an HTML form's POST variables with AMPScript?

Does anyone know if it's possible to get the POST variables from a form, using ExactTarget's scripting language, AMPScript? I'm seeing how to get parameters via query strings, but seeing how I'm ...
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Retrieving email by id and but throwing an error

I am trying to retrieving the email below code and returned as error using SAOP API (.NET). Is there any code issue here ? What is the the minimum input is required to retrieve email object ? I am ...
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Rendering Email Thumbnail in Hub

Is it possible to make a cURL POST for an email thumbnail preview using the Authorization: Bearer header to a URL like this: https://www.exacttargetapis.com/guide/v1/emails/12345/EmailThumbnail ...
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Creating HTML Email Templates in ExactTarget

I've been asked to create a HTML email template in ExactTarget, and after having read the documentation I have a few questions. Thanks in advance for your help. Is this the only tag available to mark ...
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Lookup Function with Shared Data Extension

I have 3 sub accounts for one client (per clients request) all of which are for different websites. I am trying to create a SHARED data extension for all accounts. The 3 accounts have full permissions ...
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ExactTarget Date and Time guidelines in AMPscript

Want to address the fact that Kelly's answers below did get me to the point of resolving this date/time challenge within AMPscript and ExactTarget. There was considerable effort involved in mastering ...
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Suggested date & time pickers for ExactTarget Landing Pages using AMPscript?

We're trying to determine an easy and usable solution to allow our administrators to have a date & time selector (almost certainly jquery or javascript based) available for forms built in ...
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Is there a way to validate an email address using the fuelsdk?

Title states it all, Is there a way to validate an email address using the fuel sdk? (php in particular)
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Possible to create a login using AMPscript?

Is it possible to use AMPscript to create a password protected area within the ET app? If so, where are some resources we could use to build this?
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Error when trying to create an User-Initiated object (ETEmailSendDefinition)

I'm trying to use fuelsdk-0.999.jar and fuelsdk-0.9999.jar (both gave me the same error) in a Java projetc downloaded from https://github.com/ExactTarget/FuelSDK-Java/releases and when I try to call ...
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Create Sendable Data Extension using FuelSDK

I'm new to using FuelSDK. I'm getting an obscure error when trying to create a sendable data extension using FuelSDK. Below is my code: dataextension.props = {"Name" : "MyDataExtension", "Description"...
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Get Email Preview Thumbnail

From the Platform, i can easily access the Thumbnail, however from within the SOAP API, this is very difficult to do. I've tried some suggested comments I've found with User Token, passing it both in ...
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Timezone object and SSJS

I am working on a fix for a User Initiated send created from SSJS. We create the email send definition and add the appropriate properties (CustomerKey, Name, IsMultipart, SendClassification, ...
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ExactTarget - Send email to group via Fuel SDK?

Can an email be sent to a Group via the Fuel SDK? If not, how can it be done with another API or SDK?
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URLEncode challenge in ExactTarget AMPscript Landing Page

I'm trying to add specific project info into URL's in an AMPscript driven database system. In doing so I've tried using the URLEncode() function as described here. Trouble is that it doesn't appear ...
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Read AccountUser's assigned to BusinessUnit in Enterprise Account

My Business Requirement is to read the Users that are assigned to the different BusinessUnit's in our Enterprise Account. For testing purposes I'm using the PHP Library. Using the following code I'm ...
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Getting one error "Status Message: Invalid DPV: Channel Member ID " while creating subscriber in Exact Target

While I am trying to create one subscriber to exact target I am getting the following error Status Message: Invalid DPV: Channel Member ID. I used the below code: CreateOptions createOptions = new ...
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how to delete a Triggered Send in Exact Target

i did find any option to delete a triggered send please let us know if we can delete it. I need to delete a "Triggered Send" in Exact Target under my interactions tab
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View email online link not working properly

we're experiencing some odd issues with our standard %%view_email_url%% link. In some cases, most of them triggered sends, the view online link works perfect, but if we check it again after some time (...
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Attachment : Triggered Send using REST API

I need to attach pdf from my Apex code (Salesforce) Using REST API ExactTarget. This PDF is Unique to each email. Please share your ideas on to this I am trying to use http://help.exacttarget.com/...
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Targetting subsets of subscribers via Fuel SDK

Each night we want to take various segments of our users, and send them an email based on which segment they're in (if any). The quick and dirty option is to create and delete multiple lists each ...
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What's the best way of retrieving spam complaint unsubscribe events via the ExactTarget API?

Given a period of time, for example, 2 hours, I would like to retrieve subscriber keys who's unsubscribe reason is 'Spam Complaint'. I've tried using various retrieve calls which either return too ...
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Connecting to ET_Client using python

I'm trying to connect to ET_Client using python, in a Linux(Ubuntu) environment, and am having trouble overcoming the errors that are being thrown. According to the sample code and tutorials I've ...
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Define data retention length in Data extension using PHP

i can create data extensions using the code provided on exact target help section. But i can't figure out how to define the data retention length. Suppose i want the data to be cleared automatically ...
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Retrieve DataExtension for TriggeredSendDefinition

How to retrieve DataExtension object associated with TriggeredSendDefinition ? I have been using the following code but its saying "Error: The Request Property(s) SendSourceDataExtension.Name do not ...
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Creating custom MIME contents in emails

I would like to include a new MIME section in a triggered send email in addition to the HTML and text ones. I want to include ICS data in my emails and would like to do it as a part in a MIME email. ...
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Send email from filtered data extension

I currently have an asp.net app that allows users to select an email template, upload a list of customer id's, select a specific send date and then send the email from exacttarget. I create a list of ...
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Query total number of sends

In ExactTarget I am trying to query the total number of sends within the last 7 for each subscriber, and only store the results where the number of 'TotalSends' is greater than 0. Here is what I have ...
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How to create template-based email using API [duplicate]

I have some email templates defined in MyTemplates in Exact Target. From the ExactTargetUI, I can create a Template-based Emails in MyEmails. But I am required to do it through API. Is there a way ...
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ExactTarget - Update hyperlink after email was sent

ExactTarget - How to update hyperlink after email was sent? We sent out an email. Later was told there's a change to one of the hyperlinks. How do I update that so subsequent click will point to the ...
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Placing Server Side JavaScript within AMPscript

Is there anyway to place Server Side JavaScript within AMPScript? For example i have a JavaScript function getLink() which returns a link and i want to place it within a AMPscript TreatAsContent ...
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Multiple sends through MessageDefinitionSends

Is there currently a way to batch triggered send requests through the REST API? All I'm finding in the documentation is triggering one at a time. Code Sample (removing the array and only sending one ...
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In ExactTarget AMPscript, how can I include a variable with a link inside a string variable and have the link tracked?

This has been killing me all day today. I have an email that has two layers of variables in the AMPscript at the top. First, all of the links are put into variables, like this: Set @HomePage = ...
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How can I display SMS poll results real time with Mobile Connect?

I'd like show real time results on screen in a web browser. Before Mobile Connect everything was in the Email application and could be done with Data Extensions and AMP Script. With Mobile Connect ...
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Creating Soap Fields for QueryDefinition

I am creating a QueryDefintionObject that extends the ETObject in the Java FuelSDK. I have been able to successfully create the following fields: @InternalSoapField(name = "name") protected String ...
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Missing com.exacttarget.fuelsdk.internal package

I grabbed the FuelSDK from github. I added the missing libraries (gson, cxf, and log4j) to the project, but seems that I am missing the com.exacttarget.fuelsdk.internal package. Is this built off the ...
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filter records into another data extension

Is there a way to use the API to select (using a simple filter) and retrieve records residing in data extension (DE A) and update them into another data extension (DE B). I need to perform this action ...
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Get Email ID associated with TriggeredSendDefinition

I want to retrieve the Email object associated with the TriggeredSendDefinition in Exact Target. For this, I am trying to find the location of Email (i.e. Folder ID of the associated Email) for the ...
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SOAP API RetrieveRequest for specific Business Unit

I am trying to pull information about various sends from the API in an automated fashion into a Ruby on Rails app. I can successfully run the call and parse the results for the entire account (...
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Distinguish sends made by list and by data extension

I import "My Tracking Data" using PHP Fuel SDK in this way: require('ET_Client.php'); $myclient = new ET_Client(); $objectType = "Send"; $getResponse = new ET_Get($myclient, $objectType, $sendProps,...