Script activities (SSJS and AMPscript)
Inside of Automation Studio, under Activities, you will find the most wonderful activity named Script activity. Now, what makes this so wonderful? Well, it opens the door to do things beyond what you can do in the user interface (UI) and allows you to build a scheduled script that can be run with a 30-minute time-out. OK—cool, but what exactly is it?
A Script activity in Marketing Cloud is an activity that lets you write a script utilizing SSJS inside of a stored object, the Script activity itself, that you can then execute within automation. You can run this as a part of automation or as the whole automation itself, as well as utilize it as both automation types: Scheduled or File Drop.
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If you do not see this activity inside of Automation Studio, contact Salesforce support or your relationship manager to activate it.
A Script activity is one of the most powerful activities in Automation Studio due to its ability to include...