Connect for Eloqua

Prerequisites

An Optimizely Content Management System (CMS) installation with Optimizely Forms, and the required Marketing Automation connector components. See Optimizely Connect for Marketing Automation.

Install

The Connect for Eloqua MA connector is installed through the NuGet package EPiServer.MarketingAutomationIntegration.Eloqua. See Add-ons platform compatibility for supported Optimizely versions.

Configure

To configure your Optimizely website to use Eloqua, you need an Eloqua license that provides you with a username, password, and company name. You also need to configure the connection of form fields to Eloqua, so that data from the specified fields can be sent to Eloqua.

These configurations are described in Eloqua connector in the Optimizely User Guide.

Encrypt credentials

Credentials are encrypted and saved based on one of the following options:

• MAICryptoKey (AES encryption with an SHA256-computer hash based on the value of the key)
• machineKey of the server in web.config.

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Note

For DXP instances, use MAICryptoKey.

If you choose to use machineKey configuration, you should specify a machineKey in the web.config of your site so that when you deploy it to a different server, the same machine key is used on the new server.

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Note

If you neglect to specify a machineKey in the web.config, the credentials are removed when the site on the new server is accessed for the first time, in which case you need to save credentials again through the configuration screen.

If the credentials are already encrypted using machineKey in an existing site, and the MAICryptoKey setting is added, then the credentials are deleted and must be re-entered.

Similarly, if the encryption uses MAICryptoKey first and then you decide to use machineKey encryption (by deleting the MAICryptoKey setting), then the credentials are deleted and must be re-entered.

Submitting Form data to an Eloqua form

You can submit data from Optimizely Form to a form in Eloqua. This provides extra features like analytics, user activity on the site, and data regarding which form created which contact.

How it works

Existing Optimizely Form functionality and this added functionality each send form data from Optimizely to Eloqua. The difference is that this feature also makes a post to an Eloqua form.

See also the documentation video: Personalization with Eloqua  

To get the added functionality, perform the following steps.

1. Create a form in Eloqua; see Creating forms from the Oracle website.
2. Select Change Contact's Email Address and set it up as follows.

3. Select Update Contacts - With Form Data and set it up as follows:

4. Create a form with the same set of fields as the Eloqua form created in step# 1. Map these fields to the appropriate fields in the field mapping drop-down.
5. Add a pre-defined hidden field with the values to the form you created, and map it to elqFormUrl in the field mapping drop-down as shown.

The hidden field should look like the following image:

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Note

The value of the elqFormUrl hidden field should be only the URL displayed in quotes in the following picture; the “action=” part should be omitted.

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Note

Form integration details are in the Eloqua portal, where you create a form in Eloqua. This is where you get the value for elqFormUrl. For reference see, Capturing submission data from an external form on the Oracle website.

6. Add the following hidden fields to the HTML of your forms page. You can use a custom block that  outputs raw HTML/scripts, or add them directly on the template which renders the form. See Reposting externally hosted forms on the Oracle website.

<input type="hidden" name="elqFormName" value="YourEloquaFormName" />
<input type="hidden" name="elqSiteId" value="YourSiteId" />
<input type="hidden" name="elqCustomerGUID" value="">
<input type="hidden" name="elqCookieWrite" value="0">

7. Add the following scripts to the page.  See Tracking Custom URLS and referrers using JavaScripton the Oracle website.
   • Script 1

<script type="text/javascript">
  var _elqQ = _elqQ || [];
  _elqQ.push(['elqSetSiteId', 'YourSiteId']);
  _elqQ.push(['elqTrackPageView']);
                                        
  (function () 
    {
      function async_load() 
        {
          var s = document.createElement('script'); s.type = 'text/javascript'; s.async = true;
          s.src = '//img03.en25.com/i/elqCfg.min.js';
          var x = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; x.parentNode.insertBefore(s, x);
        }
      if (window.addEventListener) window.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', async_load, false);
      else if (window.attachEvent) window.attachEvent('onload', async_load);
     })();
</script>

Script 2

<script type="text/javascript">
  var timerId = null, timeout = 5;
  function WaitUntilCustomerGUIDIsRetrieved() 
    {
      if (!!(timerId)) 
        {
          if (timeout == 0) 
            {
              return;
            }
          if (typeof this.GetElqCustomerGUID === 'function') 
            {
              document.getElementsByName("elqCustomerGUID")[0].value = GetElqCustomerGUID();
              return;
            }
          timeout -= 1;
        }
      timerId = setTimeout("WaitUntilCustomerGUIDIsRetrieved()", 500);
      return;
    }
  window.onload = WaitUntilCustomerGUIDIsRetrieved;
  _elqQ.push(['elqGetCustomerGUID']);
</script>

The form is ready. When you submit the Optimizely form, it creates a contact and also records the submission of the Eloqua form.