Marketing Cloud Enter a Contact into a Journey
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Marketing Cloud Enter a Contact into a Journey
with Salesforce · Digital Marketing Management
Locate a published journey and enter a contact via an entry event.
- Obtain an OAuth 2.0 access token using the client credentials grant for server-to-server access to the Marketing Cloud REST API.
- List published journeys and select the first one so its configuration can be confirmed before contacts are injected.
- Read the detail for the selected journey to confirm its status, triggers, and activities before firing the entry event.
- Fire a journey entry event to inject the contact into the journey at its event-triggered entry source using the supplied event definition key.
What you'll need to have ready
- clientId: The client ID of the Marketing Cloud installed package API integration.
- clientSecret: The client secret of the Marketing Cloud installed package API integration.
- contactKey: The subscriber key of the contact entering the journey.
- eventDefinitionKey: The external key of the event definition configured as the journey entry source.
- data: Additional data attributes passed with the event for personalization.
For your developer
Arazzo workflow salesforce:manage-journey, 4 operations: getAccessToken → listJourneys → getJourney → fireJourneyEvent. Specs on APIs.io.