Campaigns

To create a new Campaign:

1. In the Tool Ribbon, click + new Campaign, or alternately from the Admin banner bar, select + New menu >Campaign. 

2. A "New Item" pop-up window is displayed. To select the folder where you want to save this new Campaign, click the folder name in the Navigation Tree on the left side of this pop-up. The "Where?" field is updated with the selected folder name.

3. In the "Name" field, enter a name for your new Campaign. This name must be unique within the selected folder.

4. Select the source of this Campaign:

• Messaging: Click this toggle if using the Messaging database as the data source. From the "Data Source" drop-down menu, select the specific table from which this Campaign will pull its audience of recipients.

• EDP: Click this toggle if using the Engagement Data Platform as the data source. Currently, the EDP supports Campaigns only in the Email and SMS Text channels.

Note: You can never modify the Campaign source after the Campaign is created.

5. From the "Type" drop-down menu, select the Campaign type:

• Regular One-off – a one-time submission to all recipients in the Campaign Audience

• Date-triggered – Campaign messages are submitted to all Campaign Audience recipients on a recurring frequency. In the Ad Audience channel, a date-triggered Campaign is referred to as a "Recurring Campaign."

• Event-triggered – Campaign messages are submitted to recipients based on a specified event trigger (see Event Trigger Options for more details on the types of Triggers supported by the platform).

Note: The Campaign Type options are not all available for every channel.

6. From the "Channel" drop-down menu, select the marketing channel that will be used to contact the consumers.

7. Depending on the selected channel, you may need to select an encoding type. From the "Encoding" drop-down menu, select a method of encoding your message content.

8. Click save new item. The Workspace is refreshed to show a blank Campaign details screen, where you can configure the details of the Campaign.

The remaining options available on this screen vary depending on the selected Channel. For more details on how to configure your Campaign, please view the channel-specific Help topic:

	Email Email (EDP) Email (Classic) **		Email: Load and Send		SMS Text SMS Text (EDP)		Push Notification Push Notification (Classic)  **
	Ad Audiences		Tracking Code		Webhook		LINE
	Data Export File		Web Page *		Control		Keitai Mail

 

* Note:  Web Pages are a unique feature in that they are considered by the platform to be a marketing channel; however, you don't actually create a Campaign for your web content. Instead, you create a Web Page which is published and made accessible to your customers. When you search for existing Campaigns from the Campaign screen, the platform includes Web Pages within the search results. Your existing Web Pages will appear along with all your other Campaigns, from all your other channels.

** Note: The legacy "Classic" Campaign screen for certain channels has been replaced with the current Campaign screen (previously known as the "Enhanced Workflow"). Unless you have a specific reason for needing to use the classic Campaign screen, the best practice is to use the current Campaign screen instead. The classic screen is no longer being updated, and lacks many newer features and usability enhancements.

 

 

An existing Campaign can be copied, or duplicated, to use as the basis for a new Campaign. The new Campaign will have the same source table, channel, content, etc. as the original Campaign.

Note: If you're copying an existing Campaign that uses Cells & Splits, the new Campaign that you create will contain those same Cells & Splits, with the same Cell Codes as the base Campaign. If you don't modify those Cell Codes in the new Campaign, you may unintentionally reuse those Cell Codes, which may cause unexpected results to appear in your Campaign reports. In most cases, you'll want to modify the Cell Codes in the newly copied Campaign.

To copy a Campaign from the Campaigns screen:

1. Search for the desired Campaign (see Search for an Item for more details).

2. Hover your mouse cursor over the desired Campaign.

3. Click the "Copy" icon in the far-right column. The  "Save a copy" dialog box is displayed.

4. The default name of the new Campaign is "Copy of <base Campaign name>." Optionally, enter a different name in the "Copy's Name" field.

5. By default, the new Campaign will be saved in the same folder location as the base Campaign. Optionally, from the folder directory on the left, select a different folder location.

Note: The new Campaign will automatically be of the same type and channel as the base Campaign, with the same source table.

6. Click save a copy. The system creates a copy of the selected Campaign.

To view or edit an existing Campaign:

Note: While editing a Campaign, if another user has this same Campaign open at the same time, and he or she modifies and saves the Campaign, the system will alert you with a "Changes Detected" pop-up window. This window tells you that changes have been made, and by whom. If you want to discard your local changes and reload the screen to show the other user's version of the Campaign, click reload campaign. Or, if you want to overwrite the other person's changes, click ignore changes.

1. Search for the desired Campaign (see Search for an Item for more details on the available search methods).

2. Click on a Campaign name to open it. Or, optionally, select multiple Campaigns using the check box in the first column, then click open in the Tool Ribbon. The platform displays a confirmation dialog box listing the selected Campaigns. Click open items. Each Campaign appears as a separate tab within the Top Navigation Pane.

3. Make any necessary configuration changes to the existing Campaign. The specific options available depending on the channel of the selected Campaign. For more details on how to configure your Campaign, please view the channel-specific Help topic:

	Email Email (EDP) Email (Classic) **		Email: Load and Send		SMS Text SMS Text (EDP)		Push Notification Push Notification (Classic) **
	Print		Tracking Code		Webhook		LINE
	Data File Extract		Web Page *		Control		Keitai Mail
	Ad Audiences

 

Optionally, to view detailed information about the Campaign, click the small down-arrow icon beneath the Save button. The Item Details panel is displayed, showing who created the Campaign, who modified it last, and what the last actions taken on the Campaign were. The direct link URL to the Campaign is available here, which can be copied to the clipboard using the "Copy Link" icon. This can be used to easily share and also open the Campaign in a browser. The "Related Items" section lists other items in the system that are referenced in this Campaign.

 

* Note:  Web Pages are a unique feature in that they are considered by the platform to be a marketing channel; however, you don't actually create a Campaign for your web content. Instead, you create a Web Page which is published and made accessible to your customers. When you search for existing Campaigns from the Campaign screen, the platform includes Web Pages within the search results. Your existing Web Pages will appear along with all your other Campaigns, from all your other channels.

** Note: The legacy "Classic" Campaign screen for certain channels has been replaced with the current Campaign screen (previously known as the "Enhanced Workflow"). Unless you have a specific reason for needing to use the classic Campaign screen, the best practice is to use the current Campaign screen instead. The classic screen is no longer being updated, and lacks many newer features and usability enhancements.

When you delete a Campaign, the system moves it from its current location into the Recycling Bin, where it can optionally be restored if needed. If the selected Campaign is stored in a folder to which you don't have the proper access privileges, you won't be able to delete that Campaign.

If your Campaign contains Cells, you must delete or stop each individual Cell. If you only delete the "parent" Campaign, the Cells within that Campaign will continue to launch and deploy, which may caused unintended messages to get sent. Therefore, if you want to stop the entire Campaign, including all Cells, you must first delete each Cell, then delete the parent Campaign.

To delete one or more Campaigns from the Campaigns screen:

1. Search for the desired Campaign (see Search for an Item for more details on the available search methods).

2. Place a check mark next to one or more Campaigns.

3. In the Tool Ribbon, click delete. A confirmation dialog box is displayed listing all of the selected Campaigns.

4. Click recycle items. The system moves the Campaign(s) to the Recycling Bin.  

 

The Pick Up Changes feature allows you to make modifications to a launched Campaign. These changes will then be applied to all un-sent messages.

You must suspend a Campaign before you can run Pick Up Changes. The only exception to this rule is an Event-triggered Campaign that uses Advanced Event Trigger as the Trigger Type; in that one scenario, you don't need to first suspend the Campaign before running Pick Up Changes. 

Note: Any messages that have already been deployed can't be retrieved.  

For Regular One-Off Campaigns, you can change the Campaign schedule and content. If the Campaign has not yet started queueing messages, you can also change the Campaign's Audience Filter; once the Campaign starts queueing, you can no longer change the Filter.

For Event-triggered and Date-triggered Campaigns, you can change any aspect of the Campaign, including the Audience Filter.

The Browse Campaigns screen allows you to run Pick Up Changes for one or more Campaigns simultaneously.

1. Search for the desired Campaign (see Search for an Item for more details on the available search methods).

2. Place a check mark next to one or more Campaigns.

3. In the Tool Ribbon, click Status > suspend. A confirmation dialog box is displayed. Click suspend campaigns.

4. Check the suspended Campaigns. 

5. In the Tool Ribbon, click pick up changes. A confirmation dialog box is displayed. Click pick up changes.

Note: If you attempt to run Pick Up Changes on multiple Campaigns, and they are not all suspended, the platform will execute Pick Up Changes until it encounters an error, then stop. For example, let's say you check three Campaigns. The first Campaign is supsended, the second Campaign is still running, and the third Campaign is suspended. The platform will successfully run Pick Up Changes on the first Camapign since it's suspended. However, the platform will encounter an error on the second Campaign since it's NOT suspended, and will abort the entire process. The platform will not attempt to Pick Up Changes on the third Campaign. 

6. When Pick Up Changes is finished, check the suspended Campaigns.

7. In the Tool Ribbon, click Status > resume. A confirmation dialog box is displayed. Click resume campaigns.

To comply with recipient preference and evolving privacy regulations, you can turn off the receipient tracking option in an Email or SMS campaign, AB tests, Cells and Split campaigns, or individual cells within a Cells and Split campaign. Please ask your Marigold Representative to get this feature enabled in your Engage+. To ensure complete Data Privacy, once tracking is turned off for a designated campaign or cell, no open or click data will be collected or reported.

You can turn off the tracking, only before the campign has been sent. 

To Turn Recipient Tracking Off in a Campaign:

1. In the Campaign Toolbar, select More Actions > Turn Tracking Off. A Confirmation Dialogbox is displayed.

2. Click Save & Confirm, to turn the tracking off in the campaign. This will only turn off tracking in a copy of a campaign, which is being sent exclusively to a filtered group of recipients who have asked to not be tracked.

 

When the Tracking is turned OFF, the LInk Tracking settings in the Content tab is not availble for editing. For cells and splits or AB Tests, when the tracking is switched off at the parent campaign, it is cascaded to all child cells. You cannot turn it back on once it is turned off. 

 

 

When you suspend a Campaign, the system immediately stops queueing messages, and stops sending messages. The platform will continue to collect activity data (opens, clicks, etc.) on any records deployed prior to you suspending it.

If you attempt to suspend a Campaign while it's still in the message creation phase, the platform will complete message creation before suspending the Campaign. 

The status of the Campaign is changed to “Suspended.” This Campaign can later be resumed. Suspending a Campaign is typically done when you need to make changes to an active Campaign via Pick Up Changes, and you intend to later resume the Campaign.

For more details on all the available options for stopping a Campaign, please see Stop Campaign Deployment.

The Browse Campaigns screen allows you to suspend or resume multiple Campaigns simultaneously.

Suspend Campaigns

1. Search for the desired Campaign (see Search for an Item for more details on the available search methods).

2. Place a check mark next to one or more Campaigns.

3. In the Tool Ribbon, click suspend. A confirmation dialog box is displayed. Click suspend campaigns.

Note: If you selected an Event-triggered Campaign above in step 3, the platform will suspend the Campaign without queueing new records. The option to "suspend and queue new records" is not available from the Browse Campaigns screen. If you want to suspend an Event-triggered Campaign, and have it continue to queue new triggered records while suspended, you need to access the Campaign details screen, and click Suspend Send Only.

Resume Campaigns

1. Search for the desired Campaign (see Search for an Item for more details on the available search methods).

2. Place a check mark next to one or more Campaigns.

3. In the Tool Ribbon, click resume. A confirmation dialog box is displayed. Click resume campaigns.

When you stop a Campaign, the system immediately stops queueing messages, and stops sending messages. Any messages currently in the queue at the moment you click Stop are recorded, and the platform will retain history of the fact that these messages were “queued but not sent.” The platform will continue to collect activity data (opens, clicks, etc.) on any records deployed prior to you stopping it.

The status of the Campaign is changed to “Done.” This action can’t be undone, and the Campaign can’t later be resumed.

For more details on all the available options for stopping a Campaign, please see Stop Campaign Deployment.

The Browse Campaigns screen allows you to stop multiple Campaigns simultaneously

1. Search for the desired Campaign (see Search for an Item for more details on the available search methods).

2. Place a check mark next to one or more Campaigns.

3. In the Tool Ribbon, click done. A confirmation dialog box is displayed. Click set to done.

When you cancel a Campaign, the system immediately stops queueing messages, and stops sending messages. Any messages currently in the queue at the moment you click Cancel are removed, and the platform doesn’t retain any history of the fact that these messages were “queued but not sent.” The platform will continue to collect activity data (opens, clicks, etc.) on any records deployed prior to you canceling it.

The status of the Campaign is changed to “Canceled.” This action can’t be undone, and the Campaign can’t later be resumed.

For more details on all the available options for stopping a Campaign, please see Stop Campaign Deployment.

Note: If you delete a launched Campaign by moving it to the Recycling Bin, the system automatically changes the status for this Campaign to “Canceled.” Even if you later restore the archived Campaign from the Recycling Bin, you still can’t resume it.

The Browse Campaigns screen allows you to cancel multiple Campaigns simultaneously.

1. Search for the desired Campaign (see Search for an Item for more details on the available search methods).

2. Place a check mark next to one or more Campaigns.

3. In the Tool Ribbon, click cancel. A confirmation dialog box is displayed. Click cancel campaigns.

Messaging offers the ability to tag Campaigns with custom Metadata fields and values. These Metadata fields allow you to create Filters that look for specific Metadata tags in them, or for use in reports, future Campaigns, or to personalize Campaign content. For more information on defining Metadata fields, please see Metadata Settings. 

To assign Metadata values to one or more Campaigns:

1. Search for the desired Campaign (see Search for an Item for more details on the available search methods).

2. Place a check mark next to one or more Campaigns.

3. In the Tool Ribbon, click metadata editor. A dialog box is displayed listing all Metadata fields defined within your account.

4. Click the toggle button next to the desired Metadata field to enable it, then enter or select the desired Metadata value. Repeat this step as needed for other Metadata fields. 

5. Click save.   

Messaging allows you to export a file containing the Object ID and Object Reference ID of one or more Campaigns. To create this export file:

1. Search for the desired Campaign (see Search for an Item for more details on the available search methods).

2. Place a check mark next to one or more Campaigns.

3. In the Tool Ribbon, click export system ids. A confirmation dialog box is displayed.
   

4. Click export ids.