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At http://community.constantcontact.com/t5/Documentation/Creating-a-Campaign/ba-p/25047 we are provided a code sample that can be used for creating a new campaign. However, when I copy and paste that code sample so that it can be posted to https://api.constantcontact.com/ws/cusotmers/{username}/campaigns (along with a Content-type parameter set to application/atom+xml) I get the following error in response:   Error 400: ...Element "Email cannot have character [children], because the type's content type is element-only. Error: ...Element 'FromEmail' cannot have character [children], because the type's content type is element-only.... Element "ReplyToEmail' cannot have character [children], because the type's content type is element-only.   How can this be fixed?     ... View more

I will regularly (perhaps even nightly) need to remove all contacts from all lists. To do this, my preference would be simply to post:   an "activityType" parameter of CLEAR_CONTACTS_FROM_LISTS and a "lists" parameter of https://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/{username}/lists to https://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/{username}/activities. That however doesn't seem to work since the "lists" parameter (number 2 in the list above) apparently requires that a specific list be referenced by ID so the lists parameter's value would look like /ws/customer/{username}/lists/2 as an example.   I can do a GET operation on https://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/{username}/lists to get all lists and parse through that to extract each list's ID to build a batch of list IDs to be cleared, but that's certainly a more cumbersome approach than I would welcome. Is there an something closer to what I describe as my preferred approach that can be used here? ... View more

At http://community.constantcontact.com/t5/Documentation/Creating-an-Add-Contacts-Remove-Contacts-Activity/ba-p/25041 under the section, "Constructing a multipart/form-data Request" we are told to format files for bulk import of contacts like so:   FIRST NAME, MIDDLE NAME, LAST NAME, JOB TITLE, COMPANY NAME, WORK PHONE, HOME PHONE, ADDRESS LINE 1, ADDRESS LINE 2, ADDRESS LINE 3, CITY, STATE, STATE, STATE/PROVINCE (US/CANADA), COUNTRY, POSTAL CODE, SUB POSTAL CODE, CUSTOM FIELD 1, CUSTOM FIELD 2, CUSTOM FIELD 3, CUSTOM FIELD 4, CUSTOM FIELD 5, CUSTOM FIELD 6, CUSTOM FIELD 7, CUSTOM FIELD 8, CUSTOM FIELD 9, CUSTOM FIELD 10, CUSTOM FIELD 11, CUSTOM FIELD 12, CUSTOM FIELD 13, CUSTOM FIELD 14, CUSTOM FIELD 15   Where in that format do we put the email address for each contact?   Also, why would we provide the state twice, but not include the zip code even once? ... View more

I start at http://developer.constantcontact.com/ and click the "Getting Started" link. From there, I scroll down to the, "What do you need to know to get started?" section which reads: ______________________________________________________ The API Key is used as part of every request to ensure that a valid application is making the request.  It is combined with the Username of the account that is making the request in the following format:                   {API_Key}%{Username}   You can try to access your own account in this way by opening up a web browser and using the following URI.  Simply enter your Username in the format above and your Constant Contact Password.   Note: Remember to replace anything in curly brackets {} with your personal information!                   https://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/{Username}/ ______________________________________________________   But when I do that (supplanting my real username in place of {Username} of course) I get "Unable to connect. Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at api.constantcontact.com." (The message text varies when trying with different browsers, but they all fail.) I gather from others that ConstactContact's documentation is pitiful, but that seems like a particularly simple thing to explain and get right. What's missing?   ... View more