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Individual Email Results not appearing for Salesforce Send Emails
As per Eliot's request, I am sharing my test results. Have tested 28 scenarios for when tracking shows up. The baseline requirement is to use the 18 character SFID as Subscriber/ContactKey - apart ...
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Synchronized Data extension
Synchronized Data Extensions are automatically added to your data model in contact builder. In order to actually work the data, at present, you have to manually create a new data extension and ...
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Best Practices for Testing Marketing Cloud Connect Integration
Thanks for sharing your point of view on this problem. I am confronted with the same discussions and the client's faces always turn white when I explain to them the different options.
To be honest I ...
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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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How are Contacts in Marketing Cloud counted?
Well, the situation is complicated. So let's break it down:
All Contacts
Salesforce bills Marketing Cloud on total number of Contacts within the system. (...) Is this the Email Studio > All ...
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Accessing data from journey object/event in Emails using Journey Builder
You can access data from your entry event like this:
First you need to find out the path of the data you like to access:
Go to Email Studio -> Subscribers -> Data Extensions
Find the automatically ...
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Using a different Subscriber Key in Marketing Cloud when using MC Connector
The mapping of the SubscriberKey is done automatically when sending to Subscribers from Sales/Service Cloud. So every automatic process, like salesforce data entry events in Journey Builder, etc. will ...
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Salesforce Marketing Cloud Unsubs
A subscriber must meet the following criteria in order for Marketing Cloud to stop "trying" and change the subscriber's status to "HELD"
Three hard bounces or three soft bounces are received for the ...
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How can I see emails sent from Marketing Cloud on Salesforce Records?
This is a standard feature of the Marketing Cloud Connector. It is built by default to transmit the tracking information back to Salesforce. Here's what you need to do
In Marketing Cloud -
Tracking ...
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Marketing Cloud Connector permission issue
You are likely missing the user permissions "Marketing Cloud for AppExchange User" and "Marketing Cloud for AppExchange Admin". Even if the user is not integrated on the Marketing Cloud side, you ...
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Marketing Cloud (MC) Connect - Syncing Email Unsubscribes With Sales Cloud (SC)
SC update MC to unsubscribe where HasOptedOutOfEmail = True
Description:
A process to synchronise Salesforce Leads & Contacts where they are subscribed in MC but have been unsubscribed in SC
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What are the benefits of Subscriber key Migration?
I've been in a project that involved a Subscriber Key migration to Sales Cloud format when both key variations existed in the system at the same time, and the reasons why client went through with it ...
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Person Accounts and MC
You will need only Accounts, not contacts. All relevant fields from the contact will be available there.
The following points are worth noting when working with PersonAccounts:
Synced PersonAccount ...
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Salesforce Integration - An exception occurred while saving the integration
I've seen this error a bunch of times and the only solution that has worked 100% of the time is to delete the package and reinstall. But you should follow these steps below before deleting and ...
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Can Marketing Cloud Connector User be an API user instead of System Admin?
There is no official guidance on this, so this list comes with no guarantees. However it is the closest I got to enabling MCC without forcing an admin role on connector user in SC.
While this solution ...
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Individual Email Results not appearing for Salesforce Send Emails
The solution is to:
Use PersonContactId field (from the Person Account) as the Subscriber Key in Marketing Cloud.
Ensure that you are sending to a data extension which is stored in the Salesforce ...
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Email opt-out is not reflecting in marketing cloud
During the configuration of the Marketing Cloud Connector, there are instructions to customize the Contacts Objects page layout.
Specifically, you need to add the ContactActions Visualforce page to ...
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Salesforce Marketing Cloud Architecture
Most of the details are outlined in the Marketing Cloud Connect documentation. When most people get into the guts of the connector, they realize that it's not as simple or as straightforward as ...
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MC AMPScript RetrieveSalesforceObjects() hitting governor limits
Providing that you are using Connected App authentication in Marketing Cloud Connect, then API calls made by Marketing Cloud Connect (for AMPscript Salesforce functions, Data Stream and other ...
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Synchronising tracking data back to Salesforce from Marketing Cloud
This is a bit of a tricky topic and it's not documented as well as it should be.
If you are sending Emails via Journey Builder, then it doesn't matter if your Data Extension is in Salesforce Data ...
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Pass line break to Long Text Field from Journey Builder
Instead of using HTML, you should use newline and carriage return:
Concat("Example: ", @field1, "\r\n", "Example: ", @field2, "\r\n")
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Data Extension Synchronisation of child BU
Yes, but you would have to upgrade to multi-org. With multi-org, you would be able to connect the parent with your Salesforce org using one API user and choose which objects should synchronize, and ...
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What ContactKey in SFMC when sources of Contacts are Salesforce CRM and other external platforms?
This is far beyond a pure development matter. Essentially, the question is, is it ok to have multiple Identity Providers ("mixed model") or should you go for one Identity Provider, which is Sales / ...
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Can I use Content Builder emails in Triggered Sends from Marketing Cloud Connect?
It is definitely possible to use Content Builder emails in triggered sends as I'm currently doing this. When I go to Email Studio -> Interactions -> Triggered Emails and click on Create, in the &...
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Marketing Cloud Connector not syncing preferences
A couple of reasons this could be happening from experience, based on the following I hope this will help.
AddMethod - On the All Subs list, check that the AddMethod is salesforce for ths subscriber. ...
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Marketing Cloud Journey Builder tracking data isn't returning to Salesforce
The problem was that I didn't link my custom Data Extension with Contact on Contact Builder.
Solution:
I entered on Contact Builder, created a new Attribute Group. After that I clicked on "Link ...
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Is it possible to have unsubscribe from parent business unit doesn't affect the child business unit?
This is the way Enterprise and Business Unit unsubscribes are designed to work - any unsubscribes at the Enterprise level will be honored at the Business Unit level, but unsubscribes at the Business ...
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What personalisation string does the Salesforce field 'et4ae5__MergeId__c' relate to in Marketing Cloud?
MergeId is populated with either:
Contact ID + Email Send Record ID (happens for batch sends)or
A numerical Id generated by Marketing Cloud (triggered sends)
Merge ID is not accessible out-of-the-...
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How to sync (bi-directional) a field between service cloud and marketing cloud
There is no possibility of using the native connector for performing a two-way sync. Data from your Sales/Service Cloud will only be synced to Synchronised Data Extensions in Marketing Cloud. You have,...
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Implementation of Marketing Cloud from Scratch
Please understand that Marketing Cloud is an enterprise-level platform. You should not implement it without prior experience. Without an understanding of the platforms data models and core ...
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