MailChimp create campaign

Nintex external platform is required for this feature. For details, see Enable Nintex external platform features.

Creates a regular or plain-text campaign in MailChimp.

Note: This action references the MailChimp user account indicated by the specified API key.

Action settings

Following are the fields and options visible in the configuration settings dialog box for this action.

Section Field Description

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 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 type

Specify the type of campaign to create. Select one of the following items.

  • Regular: Supports both HTML and plain-text content.
  • Plain-Text: Supports plain-text content only.

 

 List ID

Specify the ID of the list to send the campaign. The list contains the recipients of the campaign.

  1. Open your MailChimp account, and click on the Lists section.
  2. Select the List you want the ID from.
  3. In the Settings tab, select List name & defaults.
  4. On the right side of the page, there is a section called List ID. You'll find the List ID below that heading.

Campaign info

Name your campaign

Specify the name of the campaign.

If no name is specified, the email subject is used.

 

 Email subject

Specify the subject line for the campaign.

Note: Keep it relevant and to avoid spam filters. The wording needs to be recognizable so the email is not recognized as spam.

 

 From name

Specify the name of who is sending the campaign.

Note: Use a name that is recognizable. For example a company name.

 

 Reply-to email address

Specify the email address of the person or organization sending the campaign. Any email replies to this campaign may be sent to this email address.

Note: The email address may need to be verified in MailChimp before it can be used.

 

 Specify #|MERGETAGS|* for recipient name

Specify the merge tags to include the recipient’s name in the message to personalize the email and help to avoid spam filters. For example, the merge tags *|FNAME|* *|LNAME|* show "To: Bob Smith" in the email instead of "To: bob@example.com".

Note: For more information about merge tags, see the MailChimp article "Getting Started with Merge Tags." 

Tracking and more

Track opens

Specify whether or not to track the email that has been opened.

Note: Applicable only for regular campaigns.

 

 Track clicks

Specify whether or not to track the email where the hyperlinks inside the email have been clicked.

Note: Applicable only for regular campaigns.

 

 Track plain-text clicks

Specify whether or not to track the plain-text email that has been clicked.

Default value: Selected (enabled).

 

 Google Analytics link tracking

Specify whether or not to link the Google Analytics tracking to this campaign.

 

 Title for campaign

Specify the title for the Google Analytics campaign.

Note: This can be seen in Google Analytics.

 

 Ecommerce360 link tracking

Specify whether to enable the Ecommerce360 link tracking for this campaign.

 

 ClickTale link tracking

Specify whether to enable the ClickTale link tracking for this campaign.

 

 ClickTale tag

Specify the ClickTale tag.

Note: This can be seen in ClickTale stats.

 

 Goal tracking

Specify whether to enable Goal tracking for this campaign.

Note: Only applicable for MailChimp paid users.

 

 Goal tag

Specify the Goal tag.

Note: This can be seen in Goal stats.

 

 Authenticate campaign

Specify whether or not to authenticate the campaign. Default value: Selected (enabled).

Note: If enabled, it provides a trackable identifer which indicates the sender is legit.

Content

Template ID

Specify the ID of the template to create the content for the campaign.

 

 HTML content

Specify the HTML content for the campaign.

 

 Plain-text message

Specify the plain-text message for the campaign.

Note: Required if plain-text campaign is selected.

 

 From URL

Specify the URL to the location of the design content for the campaign.

Note: Applicable only for regular campaign. If specified, this will override other content options.

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Output

Store output for this action using the following selections.

  • Campaign ID: Specify a workflow variable that will store the ID of the created campaign.
  • Create successful: Specify a Yes/No variable to store whether or not the campaign is created. Returns "Yes" if the campaign was successfully created.

Depending on action requirements, you may be able to add and remove output variables.

To add an output variable

  1. Select an option from the Select more drop-down list.
  2. Click Add to display a drop-down list for the selected option.
  3. Select a previously defined workflow variable from the drop-down list.

To remove an output variable

  • Click Delete ().

    Note: Some output variables cannot be deleted. For example, the output variable URL for the action Bing news search cannot be deleted.