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What is the difference between Primary Key Contact ID, Contact Key, Subscriber Key and Subscriber ID?
Subscriber Key: An Email Studio attribute that is used as a unique identifier for contacts records. Has a one to one relationship with subcribers and is immutable (cannot be changed once set). This is ...
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Can I query to all contacts in contact builder
Here’s a workaround provided by Salesforce to query All contacts:
1) In MobileConnect or MobilePush, create a filtered mobile list that meets the condition: Contact Key is not null
2) Use a SQL ...
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Exact Target: Can someone please tell me the difference between Contact Builder and Data Relationships in Exact Target?
Contact Builder (more exactly Data Designer) basically is doing the same thing as Data Relationships, but those connections are used in different places. From the GUI perspective, Data Designer was ...
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Subscribers currently in a Journey
Update May 2021:
Due to recent changes in the internal table structure of Marketing Cloud Journey Builder, it is no longer possible to request this custom data view. I will provide an update as soon ...
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Use cases for one-to-many and many-to-many relationships in Contact Builder
I've asked around some Salesforce contacts to try and get to the bottom of this. One-to-many relationships from Contact Builder are only applicable in Audience Builder (as Audience Builder uses these ...
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Query All contacts for mass contacts delete
No need to create a support case, this doc has ways to accomplish your use case: 'Permanently remove Contacts or Subscribers and associated data from Contact Builder'
Prepare to delete any Contacts ...
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Are Populations required to use Journeys?
There's a lot of confusion on this topic, which isn't helped by the amount of mis-information currently in circulation.
Populations are of particular relevance when the Contact record is initally ...
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Query MobileConnect Lists
The reason for this not working is because there is currently a bug which does not update the MobileList names in the Marketing Cloud backend DB if they are renamed at any point.
I had renamed my ...
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Viewing MobilePush Attributes
There is a Data View for MobilePush demographics similar to that of MobileConnect
_PushAddress contains the MobilePush Demographics data
_MobileAddress contains the MobileConnect Demographics data
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Editing Data Extension Records in Contact Builder
You are likely experiencing this because you are trying to alter a Data Extension that isn't compatible. These are the restrictions I've noticed that don't allow you to edit individual records:
No ...
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Does quantity of data extensions impact performance?
It would depend on how many you have vs how many you would be deleting, but in general, deleting Data Extensions can improve load time for the UI anywhere pagination is involved.
Deleting sendable ...
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GDPR: What happens to deleted contacts re-entered through imports
You would need to remove their address/contactkey from your system as well to stay GDPR compliant. The Marketing Cloud will allow the contact key back into the system after it has been fully deleted. ...
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How to Delete a Data Extension Folder
Try to delete it from Email Studio:
Go to Email Studio > Subscribers > Data Extensions and right click on the folder.
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Marketing Cloud ContactID, where do I find this?
This would be SubscriberID on the _Subscribers view.
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"Contact KEY" "Contact ID" relationship within the Contact Builder - Marketing Cloud ExactTarget
A Contact Record has two identifiers:
Contact Key: a user defined identifier
Contact ID: a system defined identifier
When creating a Contact Record, you assign a Contact Key and Marketing Cloud will ...
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Salesforce Data Extensions not available for Contact Builder Data Model
Salesforce Data Extensions are indeed not available in Contact Builder - only in Email Studio. This is a limitation of the application, you are not missing anything. I normally set up the entire ...
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Edit Synchronized data extension
The data from the Connector flows one-way and is not bi-directional. The only "bi-directional" data going back to SalesCloud is tracking information unless you use AMPScript for updating Salesforce ...
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Duplicate records in All Contacts after create a Population
Messy situation. You've got Salesforce CRM connected which means if you have chosen to synchronise Contacts, Accounts, Leads and Users they are all in your AllContacts table with their Salesforce ID's....
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Journey builder: what is "Email Attributes > Email Addresses"
It is the SYSTEM_DATA Attribute Group in the DataDesigner.
When you watch the All-Subscriber-Table inside marketing cloud this is the stuff where this data refers to. It is the email address that is ...
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Viewing MobilePush Attributes
Eliot,
Great question. This is a bit unintuitive. To view the attributes:
Login to Marketing Cloud
Navigate to Mobile Push
In the upper right-ish corner of the dashboard, in the contacts box, click ...
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Contact Builder Populations with Business Units
The Contact Model and Populations within it are specific to each Business Unit. You can't share the Contact Model or populations across Business Units.
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How do I remove a Data Extension linked to an attribute group?
You need to unlink the data extension from the attribute group, which can be done using the following steps:
You need to go to Audience Builder -> Contact Builder (Data Designer with Attribute Groups ...
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Bulk API in Journey Builder
this is not officially available for use BUT...
Try the endpoint
https://www.exacttargetapis.com/interaction-experimental/v1/batchcontactevents
and then something like the following system
{
...
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How do I create a contact through the marketing cloud REST API?
As Mohith comments, HTML Enabled is a required attribute, however you shouldn't receive a 500 error. Here's a working request:
Host: https://www.exacttargetapis.com
POST /contacts/v1/contacts
Content-...
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Did Audience Builder and Contact Builder merge?
Contact Builder is responsible for aggregating customer data from multiple source into a single customer view, known as the contact model in marketing cloud. For more information refer to the official ...
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Contact Builder attributes not showing up
Overall, the challenge is that you only have access to data that is stored in the mobile demographics table, and not linked data sets to my knowledge.
If you want to include personalization, this is ...
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Syncing Salesforce with Contact Builder
Great thinking so far ! :) I think I can answer most, if not all of your concerns. First of all, and just for your reference - synchronised data extensions exists as "hidden populations" via the ...
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Removing a DE field when DE is used in a data relationship
It is indeed possible to remove a field in a linked Data Extension, with a small workaround. Using SOAP, I have successfully removed a field, without unlinking the Data Extension in Data Designer. You ...
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how to use Synchronized Data Extensions in journey builder
You can't use Synchronized Data Extensions in Journey Buider. You have to duplicate the records in a Sendable Data Extension using a SQL in Automation Studio (or a Data filter) and then link it to the ...
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How to eject contact from active Journey?
After some testing I found a workaround for what I'm trying to do. By utilizing the 'Auto-Suppression Configuration' setting in the admin menu I was able to create a suppression list that is applied ...
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