Global Fields for Campaigns

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Global Fields for Campaigns

I'm wondering if anyone can help with this. We are trying to implement a round robin campaign within Marketo.

My understanding is that in Marketo, fields values are specific to an individual contact (e.g., lead.SOME_VALUE). We are looking for a way to have a field apply globally (e.g., system.SOME_VALUE). We would like this funcitonality so that all campaigns can read the value of system.SOME_VALUE and take action based on what is contained in the field and update the field.

Smart Campaign Example

1. campaign called
2. read system.SOME_VALUE (e.g. system.SOME_VALUE = 2)
3. if system.SOME_VALUE = max, change system.SOME_VALUE = 1, "else do nothing"
4. if system.SOME_VALUE = 50, request campaign 50
5. if system.SOME_VALUE = 49, request campaign 49 
...
53. if system.SOME_VALUE = 1, request campaign 1
54. change data value system.SOME_VALUE to system.SOME_VALUE +1 (e.g., system.SOME_VALUE = 3)
55. await next call ...

Maybe it's not a "system.%" field but maybe "global.%" or "campaign.%". I was hoping to use a token for this but tokens are fixed and cannot be updated programatically. Any advice is greatly appreciated.
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Anonymous
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Re: Global Fields for Campaigns

Hi James, There is a different tactic for this. You can use program tokens. But you can also use tokens add a folder level. This way it will effect all program within the folder.
Anonymous
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Re: Global Fields for Campaigns

James - what did you end doing?

I'm running into a similar problem?

Diederik - the issue is that as far as I can tell tokens can't be updated updated programatically - ie via a Flow Step.
Anonymous
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Re: Global Fields for Campaigns

Hi Grant, You're correct a tokens can't be adjusted in flows. So what you want is a process that is able to change it's own flow rules. I don't fully understand the use case. But I've used something called Matrix Fields that might help. Can you provide a real use case (e.g. not 'some value').
Anonymous
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Re: Global Fields for Campaigns

Matrix Fields??

I want to count the number of days in a month so I need a variable that I can say:
Count = Count + 1.

I want to be able to reset it as well:
Or If Today = 2/5/2013, Then Count = 0.

It can't be a field on the record because the count is global, ie everyone, including new members of the campaign must know what the Count is - so that I can then say:

If Count = 3, then send email #3.

Does that make sense?

I will look matrix fields - thanks!
Anonymous
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Re: Global Fields for Campaigns

Hi Grant,

Tour comment describes the solution you're working, which doesn't seem to work. Please provide we exactly what you want to achieve, because their might be a very simple way you haven't thought about yet.

P.s. What I consider a 'Matrix Field' is just a integer (number) field. A matrix (a table) has two axis. Leading up to many values. E.g. The number 1672390 are actually 7 different items, each having a value from 0-9. Or even more simple 11001 has 5 different items with a value true or false (1 or 0). This is very usefull when having to trigger on complex values. You could just say if the field is smaller than X and larger than Y. E.g. If 11001 is larger than 1000 and smaller than 1222.

KR,