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Connecting to the Dotdigital connector

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Overview

Dotdigital is an online marketing platform that provides marketing solutions for campaigns, eCommerce, automation, email, and SMS marketing. You can use skyData’s built-in connector for importing data from Dotdigital. Our platform collects, analyzes, and provides a solution to transform data into meaningful information for generating valuable insights.

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Prerequisite

  • You have a Dotdigital account and credentials such as Username and Password. Each API user has credentials that must be used to start the configuration. If you want to create an API user account, you need to set up an API user.

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Import Data using Dotdigital connector

  1. In the left pane, go to Dataflow > Imports.
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  1. Click New Dataflow to create dataflow.
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  1. Enter a Name to identify your Dataflow.
The name must start with a letter and can only contain letters and numbers, with no spaces between characters.
  1. Click Next.

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Add Dotdigital Connector

  1. In the All or Marketing tab, select the dotdigital connector to start the configuration.
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  1. Also, you can use the Search function to find the dotdigital connector.
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  1. In the Set dataflow name, enter the Display Name to identify your dataflow.
  2. In the Description box, you can enter an explanation of the connector.
  3. Click Next.
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To configure Dotdigital

Follow the below steps to configure the connection to Dotdigital:
  1. Enter your credentials such as Username, Password, and Region to configure with the Boulevard connector.
  1. Enter your credentials such as Username, Password, and Region to configure with the Dotdigital connector. For details about the Dotdigital account, click Get account information. If you want to create an API user, refer to the setting up your API user. For more information about API endpoints and regions, see API conventions.
  2. Click Connect.
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  1. You can enter the Table Details to process the data.
In the Table Details, all address-books and campaigns are selected by default. Also, you can mark only those address-books or campaigns that you want to import and process the data. For example, to import customer data from the address book and marketing campaigns, you can check only those which contain customer information, such as name, email, address, and contact details.
  1. Click Save to apply the changes.

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Run, edit, and delete the imported data

  1. After saving the connection, the Dotdigital connector appears on the Dataflow page. Also, you can see the list of created tables in the Databases section.
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  1. Select the horizontal ellipsis in the Actions column and do the following:
You can view the error message for any data import failures from a data source by navigating to Dataflow and checking under Run history > Description.

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Next step

After completing the data import, start the Master Data Management (MDM) - Stitch process to develop a unified view of your customers.