Connect for Salesforce Marketing Cloud (ExactTarget)

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

Install the Connect for Salesforce Marketing Cloud (ExactTarget) MA connector through the NuGet package EPiServer.MarketingAutomationIntegration.ExactTarget. See Add-ons platform compatibility for supported Optimizely versions.

Configure

To configure your Optimizely website to use Salesforce Marketing Cloud, you need a license that provides you with a username, password, and company name. You also need to configure the connection of form fields to Salesforce Marketing Cloud so that data from the specified fields can be sent to Salesforce Marketing Cloud. See Salesforce Marketing Cloud (ExactTarget) connector.

Encrypt Credentials

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

• MAICryptoKey (AES encryption with a 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 the same machine key is used on the new server when you deploy it to a different 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 you add the MAICryptoKey setting, then the credentials are deleted, and you must re-enter them.

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.