Install SFMC Behavioral Data Exchange Activity for Marketing Automation on-prem

Current version: 7.0

The Salesforce Marketing Cloud Behavioral Data Exchange (SFMCBDE) Activity for Marketing Automation (MA) enables you to synchronize xConnect contact details to SFMC using Marketing Automation campaigns.

It can synchronize the contacts from Sitecore to SFMC Centralized Data Extension. It can also trigger SFMC Journey Builder API events.

You must install this product on a Sitecore Content Management (CM) server.

You must install the following packages in sequence before you install SFMCBDE for MA:

  • Sitecore Experience Platform 10.2.

  • Data Exchange Framework (DEF) 7.0.0.

  • DEF Activity Plugin for Marketing Automation 7.0.0.

  • Sitecore Connect for Salesforce Marketing Cloud - Behavioral Data Exchange 7.0.0

  • DEF Tenant Web Service 7.0. You must deploy this service as a separate IIS site.

To install the SFMCBDE Activity for Marketing Automation (MA):

  1. Download the Sitecore Connect for Salesforce Marketing Cloud - BDE Plugin for Tenant Service 7.0.0.scwdp.zip package.

  2. Deploy the package on top of the Tenant Service server.

  3. Verify that the <Tenant Service>\bin folder contains all the DLL files from the package.

  4. Download the Sitecore Connect for Salesforce Marketing Cloud - BDE Action Plugin for Marketing Automation 7.0.0.scwdp.zip package.

  5. Deploy the package on top of the xConnect Marketing Automation Service.

To check that you have installed the SFMCBDE Activity for MA successfully:

  1. On your Marketing Automation Service, verify that the <Marketing Automation Service>\AppData\Config\sitecore\MarketingAutomation folder contains the configuration file.

    Note

    <Marketing Automation Service> is where the AutomationEngine folder is on your MA installation. The placement of that folder depends on your type of installation.

  2. On your Marketing Automation Service, verify that the <Marketing Automation Service> folder contains all the DLL files from the package.

  3. On your content management server, In the Content Editor, verify that the item /sitecore/system/Settings/Analytics/Marketing Automation/Activity Types/Trigger DEF SFMC Sync Process exists.

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