Campaign Monitor Tasks

Campaign Monitor Extensions

A series of tasks for interacting with Campaign Montitor.

Prerequisites

• You must have an account with Campaign Monitor.
• You must obtain your ClientId and your API Key from Campaign Monitor for use within the tasks.

Create Campaign

This task creates a campaign from an existing template.

Configuration Options

• List Id: This is the unique id of the subscriber list you with to send the campaign to.
• Template Id: This is the unique id of the custom template you wish to use. Note: You cannot use a built in template. The campaign monitor api does not allow this. The only way I know to get your template id is to hit the api and query for it.
• From Email Address
• Reply To Email Address
• Campaign Name: The name of the campaign you wish to send. This must be unique.
• Email Subject
• Single Lines: JSON representation for floating singleline tags. Example: [{ "Content": "Support Centre" }, { "Content": "Co ntent goes here" }]
• MultipleLines: JSON representation for floating multipleline tags. Example: [{"Content": "<p>This is a test email.</p> <p>This should be on another line.</p>"}]
• MultipleLines Source: Choose whether your multiplelines template is read from a file on disk or inline.
• From Name
• Send Preview: Whether you wish to send a preview email
• Preview Recipient: Who receives the preview email.

Output Variable

• Output Variable: Contains the created campaign id.

More information regarding the SingleLines and Multiple Lines properties can be found here. https://www.campaignmonitor.com/api/campaigns/#creating-campaign-template

Delete Campaign

This task deletes a campaign given a campaign id.

Configuration Options

• Campaign Id: The Id of the campaign to delete.

Send Campaign

This task sends an existing draft campaign. You can use the output "campaign id" from the Create Campaign task as input for this task.

Configuration Options

• Campaign Id: The Id of the campaign to delete.
• Confirmation Email: A comma seperated list of up to 5 email addresses for the confirmation to be sent to. (eg. user@domain.com,user2@domain.com)
• Send Immediately: Whether to send the campaign immediately.
• Send Date Time: The date the campaign should be scheduled to be sent. This date should be in the client's timezone and formatted as YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM.

Learn More

The source to this extension is available. Feel free to take, fork, and extend.

Feedback

• https://github.com/gregpakes/vsts.extensions