Questions tagged [mobileconnect]
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How can I sync the mobileconnect mobile number with the number in a Synchronized Data Extension?
I want to sync the mobile number in my Synchronized Data Extension with the Mobile Number in mobile connect.
When I do this it asks for a keyword, but I don't want this. As these people might have ...
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Importing mobile numbers into mobile connect
There are three different starting points on how a subscriber can opt-in through a mobile opt-in message.
They are a lead and are added as a separate contact in Mobile Connect when they text the opt-...
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dynamic from name for SMS
Is it possible to change the from name (sender ID) for MobileConnect with ampscript? Based on telecom regulations we need to send SMSes with different from names based on which country we're sending ...
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Adding Locale Data Type Using Short Codes
I have two shortcodes for SMS registration, one for USA members and one for Canadian members. I am looking for a way to add the Locale data type. Is there a way for me to pull a member's locale based ...
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Can the same number be used for two different types of SMS?
Is it possible to use the same number for two different types of SMS in MobileConnect?
For instance, I'd like to have an outbound message and a text response message, both with the same number. Can ...
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How to stop SMS sends if Mobile Number in Data Extension has an invalid format
I have a use-case where-in SMS is sent to the number provided by the customer on a form. So if the customer provides a number with invalid format, the SMS should not go out.
What is happening is that ...
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Update subscription details in MarketingCloud (MobileConnect)
I'm fairly new to Marketing cloud and trying to solve an issue.
How can we update the opt-in and opt-out fields in marketing cloud to reflect the changes from a custom preference center? We have a ...
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Capture Mobile Number of Customer who Reply STOP
We want to capture mobile number or contact Key of customer who reply STOP keyword for unsubscribe.
We have tried to do this using InsertDE function in Custom Response Text as follows but it fails.
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Send to foreign mobile number with a local shortcode in MobileConnect
Our client needs to send SMS to local phone number, but also foreign phone number.
With a local shortcode (France), is it possible to send SMS to foreign phone number also ?
Is there any restrictions ?...
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Locale Support for Canadian Short Codes
According to the following Marketing Cloud Valid Locales Documentation, there seems to be no support for the english Canadian locale, only for the french Canadian.
Unsupported Locale:
English (...
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Contacts not receiving SMS again once sms is Received once - Marketing Cloud Mobile Connect
I have an issue in regards to contacts not being able to receive sms again once they received an sms before.
Orignally, I created a keyword attached to the "Stop". I changed it to be attached to the "...
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MobileConnect - Concatenation not supported - Forcing a break
I'm running SMSs in an area where concatenation of the message is not supported.
The messages I have are being truncated mid-sentence. Is there any way of forcing the truncation at a fixed point (i....
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SFMC Mobile Connect, Update Data Extension After sending a Response in SMS
I need to update sales cloud and a data extension whenever a customer replied UNSUB to the sms that we send using Marketing Cloud.
This is how I get the response
IF Uppercase([MSG(0).NOUN(0)]) == "...
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How can I use in Mobile Connect a data extension created in Contact Builder?
I created in Contact Builder a data extension with the following fields, as per the documentation i read.
When I try to create a sms in Mobile connect and select Data extension as audience, I can't ...
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Can someone please explain the concept of Super Message and Multiplier
After trying to understand the Super Message bundles from the link Super Message Bundle
I am not sure what does it mean when it says - "Messages sent to countries not
listed in the table below are not ...
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Mobile Connect Reporting
Does anyone have any information on what 'Culture Code *' is when creating Mobile Connect reports {{DisplayName_en-GB}} if sending from the UK, however I'm not exactly sure what this is.
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Configure Send Blackout Window for Mobile Messages
I want to configure a Send Blackout Window to prevent Mobile Messages to be sent at night. I use Journey Builder to send these Mobile Messages.
While SF recommend to configure the Send Blackout ...
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Marketing Cloud - Mobile Connect Campaign Codes and Tags
In Mobile Connect you can create a Campaign to associate with your SMS messages. Can someone explain to me the purpose of the 'Campaign Code' and 'Tag' option. Surely if it's for reporting then the ...
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RetrieveSalesforceObjects no working in text response International long code
I'm coming across a strange issue. Texting companystop to a international long code that runs this code
You have been unsubscribed
%%[VAR @mobilenumber,@rc,@rows SET @mobilenumber = [MOBILE_NUMBER]
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MobileConnect Opt-In with surrogate Keyword
I have an PROMO keyword which I use as the attached keyword for all my new Marketing SMS messages. I send emails to customers to allow them to Opt-In to these SMS promotions, currently they have to ...
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Is it possible to change automatically generated SMS name for SMS sent from the Journey Builder
For sms sent for JB, the name is generated in the format of "Content-Generated-Message-08015ffd-5a62-4490-b941-742af051ccae" which we want to change (we are ready to do it manually) to have more ...
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How can I extract information gathered through Mobile Connects Info Capture?
I'm using Mobile Connects 'Info Capture' template to get subscriber information. Once a Subscriber has responded with the data I want, is there a way of using that information outside of Mobile ...
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Salesforce Marketing Cloud - Opt-in Process
If I create an SMS using the SMS opt-in template in Mobile Connect, will this store all the contacts that respond in a separate list so I can target that list with a campaign in the future?
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Salesforce Marketing Cloud Mobile Connect - Explain how Keywords work
I'm struggling to fully grasp what keywords are used for in Salesforce Marketing Clouds Mobile Connect.
So I understand that when importing lists you attribute a Keyword to them, and likewise when ...
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SMSMesssageTracking Data View Field - ResponseToMobileMessageTrackingID
Is there an example of what populates for 'ResponseToMobileMessageTrackingID' on the SMSMessageTracking Data View? I'm relatively new to MobileConnect in SFMC and read the field description found here(...
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SendSplitID values missing in SMSMessageTracking
I'm trying to find a way to get full, concatenated text messages from the data available in Marketing Cloud. This was not possible before, but since then the SMSMessageTracking has become available ...
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Get the Name of a MobileConnect message as an AMPScript variable
I'm building a "master sent log", which is essentially a DE that captures info about all email and sms messages sent from Marketing Cloud.
It captures this using AMPScript in the email that uses a ...
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How to map an inbound to an outbound SMS
Is it possible to map an inbound SMS message (reply) to the outbound it actually relates to?
Scenario - 2 different SMS messages 1 subscriber (same phone number):
Subscriber X123 receives an SMS#1 ...
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How to convert Mobile Push List into Data Extension
I have created a list in Mobile Push directly by filtering the contact mobile push attributes.
But am figuring out a way to convert the list into a data extension.
Is there any way to do that?
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How to retrieve a demographics field in a push notification via ampscript?
In my outbound push notification, I am trying to get a demographics field using ampscript but I am not getting anything.
For instance having this:
what is the Ampscript code to get the value ...
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SMS failure in exacttarget
I have sent a oubound SMS to 1000 audience by data extension but in overview tab in mobileconnect it is showing me only 2500 messages are delivered. also status is shown as complete. where can i see ...
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Query to get ContactKey and SubscriberKey in results?
I am trying to create a query in marketing cloud that will give me both ContactKey and SubscriberKey in the results.
The background: we are setting up MobileConnect. It seems that between ...
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Based on the SMS response will I be able to send an email through journey builder
I am trying to send an sms to a list of subscribers in a data extension through journey builder.I have added the DE as the entry source in the journey builder. Then I have created a SMS activity . ...
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Manage Transactional & Promotional MobileConnect sends
We need to send two types of messages to our contacts. Giving the fact that there is no such thing as Transactional SMS sends in Marketing Cloud, we've decided to create two keywords:
NOTIF: to be ...
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Short Code across business units
Just a question that i did not see in the documentation: If a customer sends a STOP keyword to a shortcode that is shares with many BU's, the customer opt-out for all sends to that shortcode? Includes ...
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MobileConnect Contacts Import Doesn't update Contacts' Status (Opted Out => Opted In) [closed]
How can we change contacts' status from Opted Out To Opted In using Import? Is this possible?
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Ampscript Error in SMS
I am writing an IF statement for subscribers that do not have a first name:
%%[IF Not Empty(First_Name) THEN]%%
%%=Concat(ProperCase(First_Name)," ",you)=%%
%%[ELSE]%%You%%[ENDIF]%%
I am getting an ...
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Export Mobile Connect contacts
I need to do a complete export of all the mobile connect contacts in a Marketing Cloud account.
Currently, I'm doing a SELECT on the _MobileAddress data view, and then export the resulting data ...
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STOP keyword + contact Delete request
I have a question regarding the behaviour of STOP keyword with a contact Delete request in a Shared code environment :
Use case 1 : Contact delete after STOP is sent by the Contact
A Contact CK1 is ...
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Track MobileConnect SMS sends results in Salesforce
Our client has MobileConnect and wants to be able to track SMS sends into Saleforce on a PersonAccount.
Is there a way to track individual SMS send results into Salesforce ?
Actually, in my research ...
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Connect the SMS Send Log to the SMSMessageTracking Data View
The SMSJobID in the send log is a GUID, not the normal numerical identifier like the SendJobID that is inside SMSMessageTracking DV.
SMS Send Log:
SMS Message Tracking:
I have tried looking to ...
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MobileConnect Short Code & Long Code options
Is there a way to use an existing Short Code or Long Code number to send SMS messages in MobileConnect?
Also, are you limited to using prebuilt Templates when sending text messages? Is there a way ...
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Merging 2 fields in a data extension
Customer has a data extension named SMS_Sends_DE, this data extension stores SMSTracking Information. If the SMS message is greater that 160 characters, there will be 2 records in the data extension.
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Contact Data , Mobile Connect and Journey Builder
I have this scenario:
| Keyword status DE |
| Mobile (PK) | Status |
| 34655555555 | active |
| Entry Journey DE ...
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Mobile Opt-Ins and Sales Cloud MC Connect
Scenario: Fresh Sales Cloud with all records/objects imported and coming into Marketing Cloud via MC Connect. I want to create a Salesforce Data journey that will opt in subscribers to our join ...
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Using outbound template for reserved keyword 'yes'
Is it possible to send an SMS message to contacts which comprises of the Keyword Yes using the outbound template in MobileConnect.
I am aware that i can use the Mobile Opt-In template to do the above ...
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What does the SMS Sends object in the MC Connector do?
I have Marketing Cloud connector setup in our Service Cloud org. I have sent SMS messages via Journeys and using Data Extension lists in MC but have noticed none of my accounts show any records in the ...
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Text to Join Mobile Connect Marketing Cloud
I'm currently implementing MobileConnect and we came across a duplicate contact issue. When the user text JOIN to our shortcode it creates a contact on the mobile subscriber table. Since we need to ...
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Storing a Full Name in a custom Data Extension from an Info Capture response
We are trying to store a full name response from an Info Capture message into a custom data extension via AMPScript. We decided to use this approach instead of adding a new attribute to the ...
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Sending SMS after subscribing through Landing Page
I am trying to build a functionality where I want to send SMS immediately when a contact fills in the details in cloud page form.
This cloud page saves those records in a Data Extension. I am not sure ...
