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Connecting to the Dotdigital connector

Overview

Dotdigital is an online marketing platform that provides marketing solutions for campaigns, eCommerce, automation, email, and SMS marketing. You can use Skypoint AI'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.

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.

Import Data using Dotdigital connector

  1. In the left pane, go to Dataflow > Imports.

The Dataflow window appears.

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  1. Click New Dataflow to create dataflow.

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  1. Enter a Name to identify your Dataflow.
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The name must start with a letter and can only contain letters and numbers, with no spaces between characters.

  1. Click Next.

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.
ConfigurationDescription
RegionBased on an API endpoint, it allows you to import data only for a particular region. 
r1
Allows you to use an API endpoint to import data for the Europe region.
r2
Allows you to use an API endpoint to import data for the North America region.
r3
Allows you to use an API endpoint to import data for the Asia Pacific region.
  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.
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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.

ItemDescription
PurposeOption to assign a purpose (Data or Metadata) for each table.
Data
Loads customer data
Metadata
Loads Metadata
File NameDisplays the name of the file that you imported.
Table NameDisplays the imported table name.
  1. Click Save to apply the changes.

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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ItemDescription
NameDisplays the name of the Dataflow.
TypeDisplays connector type symbol.
StatusIndicates whether the data is imported successfully.
Tables CountDisplays the number of tables.
Created DateDisplays date of creation.
Updated DateDisplays last modified date.
Last RefreshDisplays the latest refresh date, which updates each time you refresh the data.
Group byOption to view the items in a specific Group (For example, name, type, status).
  1. Select the horizontal ellipsis in the Actions column and do the following:
If you want toThen
Modify the DataflowSelect Edit and modify the Dataflow. Click Save to apply your changes.
Execute the DataflowSelect Run.
Bring the data to its previous stateSelect Rollback.
Delete the DataflowSelect Remove and then click the Delete button. All tables in the data source get deleted.
See the run history of the DataflowSelect Run History.
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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.

Next step

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