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Marketing Cloud Send a Triggered Email

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Recipe · 3 steps

Marketing Cloud Send a Triggered Email

with Salesforce · Digital Marketing Management

Trigger a Marketing Cloud email send and read its delivery status.

  1. Obtain an OAuth 2.0 access token using the client credentials grant for server-to-server access to the Marketing Cloud REST API.
  2. Submit a triggered email send to the recipient using the supplied triggered send definition key and personalization attributes.
  3. Read the delivery status for the recipient using the recipient send id returned by the send request as the message 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.
  • definitionKey: The external key of the triggered send definition in Email Studio.
  • contactKey: The subscriber key of the email recipient.
  • to: Optional recipient email address overriding the subscriber's stored address.
  • attributes: Key-value personalization attributes for the recipient.
For your developer

Arazzo workflow salesforce:send-triggered-email, 3 operations: getAccessToken → createEmailSend → getMessageStatus. Specs on APIs.io.