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

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

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

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

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

Hi Macarena Lopez,

Thank you for a quick response.

It helped.

Jay

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

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

thanks

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