Clone a Program - Expect Smart Campaigns to be Cloned and Activated

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I want to create a master program, that contains an Email, few smart campaigns(triggered) .

These smart campaigns are Activated in the master program.

I want to clone this master program, whenever I want to send a new email campaign.

Ideally I want the steps to be

clone the master program

modify the email, modify the send list(members) and schedule it to send emails.

but when I clone the program, the smart campaigns that are in the program are cloned in the inactive state.

so I have to activate the smart campaigns one by one and send the email.

In case I miss to activate a smart campaign, this will result in missing trigger actions leading to wrong data.

Is there a way to set this master program in such a way that the smart campaigns in the program, when cloned are by default in active state?

thanks in advance

Jay

[Anonymous]

Hi Jay,

This is the way Marketo works. In way way it's quite helpful as it forces the user to review the logic before activating it. In your case, however, sounds like a bit of an inconvenience. May be if your scenario allows you, you could schedule a re-ocurring batch campaign (making sure that you did change the members and the email content before it's sent again).

Schedule a Recurring Batch Campaign - Marketo Docs - Product Docs

Hope this helps!

Thanks,

[Anonymous]

Hi Macarena Lopez,

Thank you for a quick response.

It helped.

Jay

[Dan_Stevens_]

I think a good middle ground solution would be the ability to mass-approve smart campaigns in some way.  A couple of related ideas:

[Anonymous]

thanks

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