Mailchimp send campaign

Send a campaign in Mailchimp. This service allows you to send the campaign with the options Send now, Send a test email or Schedule to be sent at a later time. The campaign can be replicated by specifying the replicated campaign name. Scheduling for RSS & A/B Split campaign types are not supported.

Note: This is an external action and may execute on servers running outside your data center Centralized locations used to house servers used by Nintex for remote storage, processing, or distribution of data. Nintex has a number of regional data centers available for Nintex for Office 365. For information about Nintex data centers and where your data center is located, contact your Nintex account or territory manager. region. Before implementing, consider performance and regional concerns where digital boundaries are an issue. For more information, see In-tenant and external actions.

Action settings

Do one of the following to open the Action configuration window:

  • Double-click the action.
  • Click on the action and then click Configure.

See Action configuration window for more information.

Field Description
API Key

Specify the Mailchimp API Key.

  1. Open your Mailchimp account, and click on My Account > Account Settings.
  2. Select the Extras tab and click on API keys.
  3. Beneath the Your API keys heading, you may need to create a new key. Click on Create A Key, and an API Key will be generated.
Campaign ID

Specify the Campaign ID.

Example campaign ID: "c80aa827b4"

To locate the campaign ID, go to the Campaigns page in MailChimp and then select View Email from the drop-down list for the campaign. The URL indicates the campaign ID by the prefix string "id=".
Replicated campaign name

Specify the campaign name to be used for the replicated campaign. Leave blank to not replicate the campaign.
Send option

Specify the send option. Select one of the following items.

  • Send Now
  • Send A Test Email (supported for RSS, Regular, and Plain-text campaigns)
  • Schedule
Send a test email to

Specify one or more email addresses to which to send a test email. Separate email addresses using commas.

Schedule date and time

Specify the date and/or time to schedule the campaign. To send the campaign immediately, leave this field blank.

Note: Mailchimp supports time selections at 15-minute intervals only, such as 1:15 or 3:30. This action fails if the specified time selection is not supported by Mailchimp

 

Note: If only the date is specified, the time will default to 12:00AM. If only time is specified, the date will default to today's date.
Schedule time zone

Specify the time zone to schedule the campaign.

Default value: (UTC) Coordinated Universal Time.

Replicated campaign ID

Specify a workflow variable to store the replicated campaign ID. The value will be blank if the campaign was not set to be replicated (replicated campaign name is blank).
Campaign send or schedule successful

Specify a Boolean variable to store whether or not the campaign is sent or scheduled. Returns "Yes" if the campaign was sent or scheduled successfully.
For more information about how to use Lookups in configuration fields, see Lookups in action configuration fields.