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Automating Salesforce Marketing Cloud

By : Greg Gifford, Jason Hanshaw
Book Image

Automating Salesforce Marketing Cloud

By: Greg Gifford, Jason Hanshaw

Overview of this book

Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SFMC) allows you to use multiple channels and tools to create a 1:1 marketing experience for your customers and subscribers. Through automation and helper tasks, you can greatly increase your productivity while also reducing the level of effort required in terms of volume and frequency. Automating Salesforce Marketing Cloud starts by discussing what automation is generally and then progresses to what automation is in SFMC. After that, you’ll focus on how to perform automation inside of SFMC all the way to fully running processes and capabilities from an external service. Later chapters explore the benefits and capabilities of automation and having an automation mindset both within and outside of SFMC. Equipped with this knowledge and example code, you'll be prepared to maximize your SFMC efficiency. By the end of this Salesforce book, you’ll have the skills you need to build automation both inside and outside of SFMC, along with the knowledge for using the platform optimally.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section 1: Automation Theory and Automations in SFMC
5
Section 2: Optimizing Automation inside of SFMC
11
Section 3: Optimizing the Automation of SFMC from External Sources
17
Section 4: Conclusion

Script.Util for the REST API

Now, as some of you may be saying to yourselves (or yelling it at this book), Hey! WSProxy is based on the Script.Util object!, and you would be 100% right. That being said, though, as we already went over WSProxy before this section, we will explore the rest of the object as it relates to the REST API.

Even those who may be familiar with SSJS and the Platform library may be scratching their heads and wondering what this crazy person is talking about. But we promise you it is there in the documentation; it is just hidden inside the Content Syndication section. Inside this section, three objects ARE listed:

  • Script.Util.HttpResponse
  • Script.Util.HttpRequest
  • Script.Util.HttpGet

As these objects and functions are fairly unknown, we are going to be spending a bit more time explaining them than we did the others. First, we will dig into the HttpResponse object.

HttpResponse

This object is the return that's gathered from the...