Questions tagged [custom-activity]
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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SFMC Custom Activity - Get Subscriber-Key value
I am new to SFMC and currently working on a backend application that is up and running, but I do not have access to SFMC myself. Workflow: My client will create a Custom Activity to use my ...
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Custom Activity OutArguments in Wait by Attribute Activity
It would be amazing if someone could help answer this question for me as I can not find any resources online. My custom activity is working as expected on Journey Builder but I want to use the ...
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Custom activity requests authentication
I'm going crazy between SF support, internal policies and contradicting information online. I need to secure custom activity http calls through EntraID auth server and I've been led to believe it was ...
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How to Use Custom Activity Data as Journey Data
I have created a custom activity and it works fine with Journey Builder. I am using in and out Arguments. However, I can not see custom activity data in Journey settings although I have seen that ...
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Journey Builder Custom Activity API LIMITS
I have a custom activity in Journey Builder that runs on AWS. I do not use any Marketing Cloud REST APIs within the activity itself. My question is: Does Marketing Cloud consume any API calls when ...
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Custom Activity Data Not Showing Up in Journey Data
I have created a simple custom activity that allows a user to select a day of the week and returns the date as an outargument. I have tested this custom activity within Journey Builder with a DE as an ...
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Journey Builder Custom Activity issue
I'm facing an issue in Salesforce Marketing Cloud with Journey Builder and a Custom Activity. Context Data Extension with: SubscriberKey — Primary Key in the Contact Table. Reservation Number — ...
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Journey Builder custom activity - how is Marketing Cloud process time inputs
I am working on a custom journey builder activity. The main goal is to create a new kind of wait activity where you can give a start time and an end time. Between these times a record should be hold ...
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Infinite Loading for Custom Activity in SFMC Journey Builder
I'm building a custom activity for Journey Builder. When I click on the activity in the Journey canvas the UI (index.html) is grayed out with an infinite SFMC loader. All network requests in the ...
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Creating a Basic Custom Activity for Journey Builder
I'm very new to Journey Builder and custom activities. I want to create a custom activity that simply checks if the current day is a weekday and returns true or false accordingly. I don't really need ...
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Can I host a Journey Builder Custom Activity and its resources on a CloudPage instead of an external server?
We need to send a simple API call from Journey Builder to a third-party application. Since it's just an API call, I was thinking of hosting the server file on MC CloudPage instead of setting up ...
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Date format in Activity
In Marketing Cloud we have a custom journey activity. We want to add a feature that would add an input for a datetime. We're currently saving it as a string with milliseconds (e.g. 2024-08-31T20:22:...
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Tracking SMS Opens and Link Clicks in Marketing Cloud Custom Activity Integration
I'm integrating with a third-party SMS provider in Marketing Cloud via a custom activity. The custom activity will hardcode a message in the journey and split the audience with decisions. I'll be ...
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Extra parameters of Custom Activity Execute
Could you please explain if there is any possibility to extend the parameters which are transfered via POST /execute request when Custom Activity executed? I would like to receive the Journey Name in ...
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{{Event.EventDefinitionKeyPrefix.First Name}} not working
how to retrieve dynamic value of data extension column such as "First Name"