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Use the custom-activity tag when your question is about building and working with custom activities in Journey Builder in Salesforce Marketing Cloud

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What is the use of the save/publish/validate/stop events?

The logc that executes when those routes are called is going to depend on your application, and use-case, but they must return some response to JB. Let's say you wanted to log an event every time some …
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How do I retrieve the Event Definition in a Custom Journey Builder Activity?

You can request the event definition key using the trigger that you have listed above (with some simple modifications). This will get the event definition key and set as a variable that you can use to …
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SFMC JB Custom Activity | POST values from DE to endpoint that requires specific data set

I wouldn't go through the trouble of pushing this to a DE just so you can reformat your payload. Instead, create a save function on your client-side controller that will request the eventdefinitionkey …
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SFMC JB Custom Activity | Access inArgs from activity backend to send in POST to another end...

Your execute logic doesn't make sense. You're attempting to make a request before you've decoded your JWT and retrieved the necessary value. At the beginning of your execute script, you should decode …
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How Iframe works in custom activity - Journey Builder

You can combine this data by adding inArguments to your save function in your customActivity.js file which will pull in the desired data from the entry event DE (or attribute group) as well as any val …
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Controlling Journey Builder custom activity exit time based on DE update completion

You should add in a decision split after your custom activity that checks whether that date is NULL in the data extension. If it is, then have a wait step (15mins - 1hr) before you rejoin the path and …
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Retrieve fields from dynamic data extention in Custom activity?

Assuming that the value you are attempting to retrieve dynamically is derived from a given EventDefinition, then you should be able to use the following syntax to access that value dynamically: var ev …
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