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How do you explain API to grandparents?
“It’s a way for a grandmom to use her mobile to talk to her grandchild or relative using a computer over the Internet.” “An API is a layer of endpoints to communicate with the business logic or platform without understanding the complexity of the platform in question and access its data and features.”
What is a fire event in Sfmc?
Entry events prompt Journey Builder to evaluate Marketing Cloud contacts for journey entry. An entry event occurs when records in a journey’s entry event data source, often a data extension, are added, updated, or overwritten.
How do you explain an API?
API is the acronym for Application Programming Interface, which is a software intermediary that allows two applications to talk to each other. Each time you use an app like Facebook, send an instant message, or check the weather on your phone, you’re using an API.
Which is the best API for Journey Builder?
The API allows you to programmatically access and interact with Journey Builder functionality. See Marketing Cloud Help to learn how to use Journey Builder to create advanced, enterprise-scale, marketing automations. The Contact and Journey Builder APIs share some of the same functionality, but the Journey Builder API is the preferred API.
How to trigger a journey API entry event?
Please create a Data Extension as follows. Create a Journey from scratch, add an API Event as Entry Source, configure it by adding an event and selecting our new Data Extension, add some Activities, make tea, activate the Journey and be golden. This is the complicated part, please bear with me.
How to get journey history through the API?
In today’s article, we will be going through a non-documented way of getting journey’s history through the API. The majority of this information is available on the UI. However, having a second way of getting this data in raw format can be helpful in some use cases.
How to stop a customer journey using the API?
To stop a customer journey record, save the Live record in Stopping state (statuscode = 192350007). Use the Postman tool to test the operations. More information: Use Postman With Web API.