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Treasure Data can publish user segments into Salesforce Marketing Cloud (ExactTarget), and enable you to send personalized emails to your customers. You can run data-driven email campaigns, by using your first-party data from Web, Mobile, CRM, and other data sources.


This data connector is in Beta. For more information, contact support@treasuredata.com.


Table of Contents

Prerequisites

  • Basic knowledge of Treasure Data

  • Basic knowledge of Salesforce Marketing Cloud

  • TD account

Supported

Open SSH 7.8 Private Key is supported. The format of the key is detected and the correct library to use is chosen.

Set Up a Secure, Automated Account in Salesforce

Access your Salesforce account to begin set up.

Create an FTP Account

On the SFMC dashboard, in your account, select Administration.

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Review your SFTP account information.


Configure for Automatic Mail Delivery

Go back to the SFMC dashboard, and select Email Studio > Email.

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Select the template, define the email properties, including name and location, and select Next to provide content. Continue creating the email and save it when you are finished.


Define Specification for Import into Salesforce

Create an Import Interaction in Salesforce

From the Email view, select Interactions.

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Provide the import interaction information, including SFTP information and data import location. Save the information.

Specify the Import Trigger

From the Email view, select the SFDC blue cloud icon to view menu options.

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Select Active to enable the import trigger.


Select Save and Close.

Use the TD Console to Create Your Connection

Create a New Connection

In Treasure Data, you must create and configure the data connection prior to running your query. As part of the data connection, you provide authentication to access the integration.

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Open TD Console.
Navigate to Integrations Hub Catalog.
Search for and select Salesforce Marketing Cloud via SFTP.

Select Create Credentials.
Type the credentials to authenticate.

Type or select values for the parameters:
ParameterDescription
Host The host information of the remote SFTP instance, for example, an IP address.
PortThe connection port on the remote FTP instance, the default is 22.
UserThe user name used to connect to the remote FTP instance.
Authentication mode

The way you choose to authenticate with your SFTP server.

  • public/private key pair
  • password

Open SSH 7.8 Private Key is supported. The format of the key is detected and the correct library to use is chosen.

Secret key fileRequired if 'public / private key pair' is selected from `Authentication Mode`. (The key type ed25519 is not supported but the ecdsa key type is supported.)
Passphrase for secret key file(Optional) If required, provide a passphrase for the provided secret file.
Retry limitNumber of times to retry a failed connection (default 10).
Timeout

Connection timeout in seconds

Use proxy?

If selected, enter the details for the proxy server. 

  • Type
  • Host
  • Port
  • User
  • Password
  • Command
Sequence format

Format for sequence part of output files (string, default: ".%03d.%02d")

Select Continue.
Type a name for your connection.
Select Done.


Define your Query

Create a job that selects data from within Treasure Data. The specified column name for the mapping must match the column name in the SFMC Exact Target mail. “Email Address” and “Subscriber Key” columns are required. If needed, you can change the mapped column name that is in TD database. You can change the column name from within the TD Console.

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Integration Parameters

You could specify more parameters for the target export file:

  • Path prefix: the path for the plugin to save your output files in the target server

  • Rename file after upload finish: select to try to upload the file with .tmp extension first, then rename the file without .tmp when the file is uploaded successfully

  • Format: Format of the file (would be CSV or TSV)

  • Compression: choose it whenever you would like to compress the file. We support gzip and bzip2 compression

  • Header line: choose it if you would like to write the first line as the columns' name

  • Delimiter: delimiter between values in the target file, would be | or tab or comma

  • Quote policy: quote between each column, could be MINIMUM, ALL, or NONE

  • Null string: the value for the null field in the query

  • End-of-line character: the character to specify for end of the line. Would be Carriage Return Line Feed (CRLF - used in Windows OS file systems) or Line Feed (LF - used in Unix, macOS) or Carriage Return (CR - used in classic macOS)

  • Encryption column names: list of encryption columns, separated by a comma

  • Encryption key: specify key needed to perform the encryption algorithm

  • Encryption iv: specify a number to prevent repetition in data encryption

Example Query



Optionally Schedule the Query Export Jobs

You can use Scheduled Jobs with Result Export to periodically write the output result to a target destination that you specify.

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Optionally Configure Export Results in Workflow

Within Treasure Workflow, you can specify the use of this data connector to export data. 

Learn more at Using Workflows to Export Data with the TD Toolbelt.

Example Workflow 

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_export:
  td:
    database: sample_datasets

+td-result-into-target:
  td>: queries/sample.sql
  result_connection: your_connections_name
  result_settings:
    secret_key: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    advertiser_id: xxxxxx
    data_activation_duration: 43200
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Verifying the Query Export Job

After the job finishes, you can check the output file on the SFTP server by using the general SFTP command, as shown in the following example:

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