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I am gettting 403 forbidden error Receiving response: HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden   I am trying to create a contactList before creating a campaign, the link attribute of the contactList is showing as below list : /ws/customers/null/lists   It was working fine earlier I was able to make schedule campaign as well.     ... View more

I have tried to customise the email content in a email campaign as below. but I have not find the firstName of the contact in the email content. Please let me know what updations I need to do for the request   I have added the FirstName and LastName attributes to the contact used in this campaign   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"> <link href="/ws/customers/[removed my moderator]/campaigns" rel="edit"/> <id>http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/[removed my moderator]/campaigns</id> <title type="text">API Test r Email 2012-08-14T14:44:49.970Z</title> <updated>2012-08-14T14:44:49.970Z</updated> <author> <name>Constant </name> </author> <content type="application/vnd.ctct+xml"> <Campaign xmlns="http://ws.constantcontact.com/ns/1.0/" id="http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/[removed my moderator]/campaigns/1111122233"> <Name>ShipcarsNow CTCT Campaign 2012-08-14T14:44:49.970Z</Name> <Status>Draft</Status> <Date>2012-08-14T14:44:49.970Z</Date> <Subject>ShipCarsNow Test</Subject> <FromName>ShipCarsNow Test</FromName> <ViewAsWebpage>NO</ViewAsWebpage> <ViewAsWebpageLinkText/> <ViewAsWebpageText/> <PermissionReminder>YES</PermissionReminder> <PermissionReminderText> You're receiving this email because of your relationship with ctct. Please &lt;ConfirmOptin>&lt;a style="color:#0000ff;">confirm&lt;/a>&lt;/ConfirmOptin> your continued interest in receiving email from us. </PermissionReminderText> <GreetingSalutation>Dear</GreetingSalutation> <GreetingName>FirstName</GreetingName> <GreetingString>Greetings!</GreetingString> <OrganizationName>ShipCarsnow</OrganizationName> <OrganizationAddress1>123 wsw st</OrganizationAddress1> <OrganizationAddress2/> <OrganizationAddress3/> <OrganizationCity>OMAHA</OrganizationCity> <OrganizationState>NE</OrganizationState> <OrganizationInternationalState/> <OrganizationCountry>US</OrganizationCountry> <OrganizationPostalCode>32423</OrganizationPostalCode> <IncludeForwardEmail>NO</IncludeForwardEmail> <ForwardEmailLinkText/> <IncludeSubscribeLink>NO</IncludeSubscribeLink> <SubscribeLinkText/> <EmailContentFormat>HTML</EmailContentFormat> <EmailContent>&lt;html lang=&quot;en&quot; xml:lang=&quot;en&quot; xmlns=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml&quot;  xmlns:cctd=&quot;http://www.constantcontact.com/cctd&quot;&gt;  &lt;body topmargin=&quot;0&quot; leftmargin=&quot;0&quot; rightmargin=&quot;0&quot;&gt;   &lt;Greeting /&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;   &lt;CopyRight&gt;Copyright (c) 1996-2009 Constant Contact. All    rights    reserved. Except as permitted under a separate written agreement    with Constant Contact, neither the Constant Contact software, nor    any content that appears on any Constant Contact site, including    but not limited to, web pages, newsletters, or templates may be    reproduced, republished, repurposed, or distributed without the    prior written permission of Constant Contact. For inquiries    regarding reproduction or distribution of any Constant Contact    material, please contact [removed my moderator].     &lt;/CopyRight&gt;   &lt;OpenTracking /&gt;   &lt;!--    Do NOT delete previous line if you want to get statistics on the    number of opened emails   --&gt;   &lt;Greeting /&gt;   &lt;CustomBlock name=&quot;letter.intro&quot; title=&quot;Personalization&quot;&gt;    &lt;table style=&quot;background-color:#FFFFFF;&quot; bgcolor=&quot;#FFFFFF&quot;     border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; cellpadding=&quot;1&quot;&gt;     &lt;tr&gt;     &lt;td width=&quot;100%&quot;  rowspan=&quot;1&quot; colspan=&quot;1&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;     &lt;table style=&quot;width:600px;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot;&gt;         &lt;/table&gt;     &lt;/td&gt;     &lt;/tr&gt;     &lt;tr&gt;     &lt;td rowspan=&quot;1&quot; colspan=&quot;1&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;     &lt;table style=&quot;width:600px;border-color:#E4E4E4;border-width:1px;border-style:solid;&quot;      border=&quot;0&quot; bordercolor=&quot;#E4E4E4&quot; width=&quot;600&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot;      cellpadding=&quot;0&quot;&gt;     &lt;tr&gt;     &lt;td width=&quot;100%&quot; rowspan=&quot;1&quot; colspan=&quot;1&quot;&gt;          &lt;table border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; cellpadding=&quot;5&quot; id=&quot;content_LETTER.BLOCK3&quot;&gt;     &lt;tr&gt;     &lt;td style=&quot;color:#555555;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;text-align: left;&quot;      rowspan=&quot;1&quot; colspan=&quot;1&quot; align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;     &lt;b&gt;Dear Customer,&lt;Greeting /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;     &lt;br /&gt;     &lt;br /&gt;         &lt;div&gt;     &lt;p&gt;     As an important customer of ShipCarsNow, we would appreciate it if you would take a few minutes to answer 10 brief questions     about your satisfaction with our service over the past year. We will use your feedback to improve our auto transport service     and products to better serve you and your company.     &lt;/p&gt;     &lt;/div&gt;         &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;     &lt;b&gt;     &lt;p&gt;     &lt;a style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -3px; color: #ff0000; font-size: 24pt; text-decoration: underline;&quot;        href=&quot;http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07e5ou49kegzk6shgq/start&quot;&gt;Take this survey       &lt;/a&gt;       &lt;/p&gt;       &lt;/b&gt;       &lt;/div&gt;       &lt;div&gt;       &lt;/div&gt;       &lt;/td&gt;       &lt;/tr&gt;       &lt;/table&gt;       &lt;/td&gt;       &lt;/tr&gt;       &lt;tr&gt;       &lt;td width=&quot;100%&quot; rowspan=&quot;1&quot; colspan=&quot;1&quot;&gt;       &lt;table border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; cellpadding=&quot;5&quot;&gt;       &lt;tr&gt;     &lt;td style=&quot;color:#555555;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;&quot;         rowspan=&quot;1&quot; colspan=&quot;1&quot; align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;      &lt;p&gt;Thank you for trusting your car with us!  We appreciate your participation in our survey and hope you will consider      ShipCarsNow the next time you or someone you know needs to ship a car.      &lt;/p&gt;     &lt;div&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;div&gt;Sincerely,    &lt;/div&gt;       &lt;br/&gt; Jeff Grandstaff    &lt;br/&gt; General Manager    &lt;br/&gt; 1-866-207-3360           &lt;br/&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.shipcarsnow.com&quot;&gt;www.shipcarsnow.com&lt;/a&gt;        &lt;p&gt; Need another auto transport quote? &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.shipcarsnow.com/Residential-Auto-Shipping/why-choose-shipcarsnow.html&quot;&gt;Click here for your Free Quote!&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;    PS ... Tell your favorite car dealer to put ShipCarsNow shipping quotes on their website! Our new        &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.shipcarsnow.com/news/shipcarsnow-extends-dealer-services.html&quot;&gt;ConnectNOW program&lt;/a&gt;    for dealers makes it easy.    &lt;/p&gt;    &lt;br/&gt; &lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/ui/images1/btn_fbk_160_a.png&quot; /&gt;           &lt;/td&gt;    &lt;/tr&gt;    &lt;/table&gt;    &lt;/td&gt;    &lt;/tr&gt;    &lt;/table&gt;    &lt;/td&gt;    &lt;/tr&gt;    &lt;/table&gt;    &lt;/CustomBlock&gt;    &lt;/body&gt;    &lt;/html&gt; </EmailContent> <EmailTextContent> &lt;Text>This is the text version.&lt;/Text> </EmailTextContent> <StyleSheet/> <ContactLists> <ContactList id="http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/[removed my moderator]/lists/693"> <link xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" href="/ws/customers/[removed my moderator]/lists/693" rel="self"/> </ContactList> </ContactLists> <FromEmail> <Email id="http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/[removed my moderator]/settings/emailaddresses/8"> <link xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" href="/ws/customers/[removed my moderator]/settings/emailaddresses/8" rel="self"/> </Email> <EmailAddress>[removed my moderator]</EmailAddress> </FromEmail> <ReplyToEmail> <Email id="http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/[removed my moderator]/settings/emailaddresses/8"> <link xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" href="/ws/customers/[removed my moderator]/settings/emailaddresses/8" rel="self"/> </Email> <EmailAddress>[removed my moderator]</EmailAddress> </ReplyToEmail> </Campaign> </content> <source> <id>http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/[removed my moderator]/campaigns </id> <title type="text">Campaigns for customer: [removed my moderator]</title> <link href="campaigns"/> <link href="campaigns" rel="self"/> <author> <name>[removed my moderator]</name> </author> <updated>2009-10-21T19:36:12.622Z</updated> </source> </entry> ... 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I am using multiple contacts in the campaigns I am scheduling. In the emails Content I need to put the details Names of the person who ever is receiving the Campaign email.   Eg In a campaign there are two contacts      1, x@yyyy.com (First Name xxxx, Last Name yyyyy)      2. b@abc.com(First Name AAAAA, Last Name BBBB)   I am creating contactList with the contacts   When the email is received by the receiver he/she should have the email contant as Dear <First Name> <Last Name>   I am able to send a standard format to all the contact mentioned in the campaign.   I there a way to personalize the email content based on the contacts?       ... View more

Thank you, I am able to create a campaign. I am facing few issue in scheduling the campaign. here is the request format I used to schedule a campaign   Code removed by moderator.   ... View more

Hi,   I have used the following format of requestt xml and able to create campaign a couple of days back. but now its giving 400 error again. Please let me know if there is any chnages to do?     <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"> <link href="/ws/customers/shipcarsnow1/campaigns" rel="edit"/> <id>http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/shipca​rsnow1/campaigns</id> <title type="text">API Test Email</title> <updated>2012-05-21T18:34:53.105Z</updated> <author> <name>Constant Contact</name> </author> <content type="application/vnd.ctct+xml"> <Campaign xmlns="http://ws.constantcontact.com/ns/1.0/" id="http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/shipca​rsnow1/campaigns/1111122233"> <Name>API Test Email</Name> <Status>Draft</Status> <Date>2009-10-19T18:34:53.105Z</Date> <Subject>ShipCarsNow Test</Subject> <FromName>ShipCarsNow Test</FromName> <ViewAsWebpage>NO</ViewAsWebpage> <ViewAsWebpageLinkText/> <ViewAsWebpageText/> <PermissionReminder>YES</PermissionReminder> <PermissionReminderText> You're receiving this email because of your relationship with ctct. Please &lt;ConfirmOptin> &lt;a style="color:#0000ff;">confirm&lt;/a> &lt;/ConfirmOptin> your continued interest in receiving email from us. &lt;/PermissionReminderText> <GreetingSalutation>Dear</GreetingSalutation> <GreetingName>FirstName</GreetingName> <GreetingString>Greetings!</GreetingString> <OrganizationName>ShipCarsnow</OrganizationName> <OrganizationAddress1>123 wsw st</OrganizationAddress1> <OrganizationAddress2/> <OrganizationAddress3/> <OrganizationCity>OMAHA</OrganizationCity> <OrganizationState>NE</OrganizationState> <OrganizationInternationalState/> <OrganizationCountry>US</OrganizationCountry> <OrganizationPostalCode>32423</OrganizationPostalC​ode> <IncludeForwardEmail>NO</IncludeForwardEmail> <ForwardEmailLinkText/> <IncludeSubscribeLink>NO</IncludeSubscribeLink> <SubscribeLinkText/> <EmailContentFormat>HTML</EmailContentFormat> <EmailContent> &lt;html lang="en" xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:cctd="http://www.constantcontact.com/cctd"> &lt;body> &lt;CopyRight>Copyright (c) 1996-2009 Constant Contact. All rights reserved. Except as permitted under a separate written agreement with Constant Contact, neither the Constant Contact software, nor any content that appears on any Constant Contact site, including but not limited to, web pages, newsletters, or templates may be reproduced, republished, repurposed, or distributed without the prior written permission of Constant Contact. For inquiries regarding reproduction or distribution of any Constant Contact material, please contact slboucher@shipcarsnow.com. &lt;/CopyRight> &lt;OpenTracking/> &lt;!-- Do NOT delete previous line if you want to get statistics on the number of opened emails --> &lt;CustomBlock name="letter.intro" title="Personalization"> &lt;Greeting/> &lt;/CustomBlock> &lt;/body> &lt;/html> </EmailContent> <EmailTextContent> &lt;Text>This is the text version.&lt;/Text> </EmailTextContent> <StyleSheet/> <ContactLists> <ContactList id="http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/shipca​rsnow1/lists/170"> <link xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" href="/ws/customers/shipcarsnow1/lists/170" rel="self"/> </ContactList> </ContactLists> <FromEmail> <Email id="http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/shipca​rsnow1/settings/emailaddresses/8"> <link xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" href="/ws/customers/shipcarsnow1/settings/emailadd​resses/8" rel="self"/> </Email> <EmailAddress>slboucher@shipcarsnow.com</EmailAddr​ess> </FromEmail> <ReplyToEmail> <Email id="http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/shipca​rsnow1/settings/emailaddresses/8"> <link xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" href="/ws/customers/shipcarsnow1/settings/emailadd​resses/8" rel="self"/> </Email> <EmailAddress>slboucher@shipcarsnow.com</EmailAddr​ess> </ReplyToEmail> </Campaign> </content> <source> <id>http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/shipca​rsnow1/campaigns </id> <title type="text">Campaigns for customer: shipcarsnow1</title> <link href="campaigns"/> <link href="campaigns" rel="self"/> <author> <name>shipcarsnow1</name> </author> <updated>2009-10-19T19:36:12.622Z</updated> </source> </entry>     ... View more

Hi Richard,   Correct me if my understanding is worng about email campaign, if am emailaddress is OptOut with CTCT, thoguh I add that emailaddress to my list and I use my list to send Email campaign , CTCT won't send mail to the OptedOut contact right ?   also let me know how we read the optout status of email address from CTCT's response ? ... View more

Hi Richard,   any updates on issuing permission to Schduling and Sending API along with documentation. ... View more

hi, I got just mail with this post, Can you please go ahead and give permission for the account shipcarsnow1 to schduling and send email campigns.  ... View more

Richard,   thanks for giving tip about the RestClient, it worked fine , when I extratced existing campign's xml and modified the same to create new campaign was successful.   I want to know is ShipCarsNow account has permision to Schduling and Sending  Compaing using out API_KEY ? ... View more

Richard,   I tried with the XML provided by you still am getting the Bad Request error, let me know if its possible to send logs contains any info about my request based, latest time i runned the program is 9:30 AM CST April 23rd 2012.   Also the list which we created has do required any permisiion ? meaning is the following part of xml needs any permission etc and let us do our API_KEY has permission to create campaign ro not our API_KEY :  "1af18f30-b9f3-437d-b37d-8d0bd10f92b5" ?   <ContactLists> <ContactList id="http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/shipca​rsnow1/lists/170"> <link xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"  href="/ws/customers/shipcarsnow1/lists/170" rel="self"/> </ContactList> </ContactLists>     ... View more

I have corrected those email still getting bad request : here is XML copied from Test Editor:   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"> <link href="/ws/customers/shipcarsnow1/campaigns" rel="edit"/> <id>http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/shipcarsnow1/campaigns </id> <title type="text">API Test Email</title> <updated>2009-10-19T18:34:53.105Z</updated> <author> <name>Constant Contact</name> </author> <content type="application/vnd.ctct+xml"> <Campaign xmlns="http://ws.constantcontact.com/ns/1.0/" id="http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/shipcarsnow1/campaigns/1111122233"> <Name>API Test Email</Name> <Status>Draft</Status> <Date>2009-10-19T18:34:53.105Z</Date> <Subject>ShipCarsNow Test</Subject> <FromName>ShipCarsNow Test</FromName> <ViewAsWebpage>NO</ViewAsWebpage> <ViewAsWebpageLinkText/> <ViewAsWebpageText/> <PermissionReminder>YES</PermissionReminder> <PermissionReminderText> You're receiving this email because of your relationship with ctct. Please <ConfirmOptin> <a style="color:#0000ff;">confirm</a> </ConfirmOptin> your continued interest in receiving email from us. </PermissionReminderText> <GreetingSalutation>Dear</GreetingSalutation> <GreetingName>FirstName</GreetingName> <GreetingString>Greetings!</GreetingString> <OrganizationName>ShipCarsnow</OrganizationName> <OrganizationAddress1>123 wsw st</OrganizationAddress1> <OrganizationAddress2/> <OrganizationAddress3/> <OrganizationCity>OMAHA</OrganizationCity> <OrganizationState>NE</OrganizationState> <OrganizationInternationalState/> <OrganizationCountry>US</OrganizationCountry> <OrganizationPostalCode>32423</OrganizationPostalCode> <IncludeForwardEmail>NO</IncludeForwardEmail> <ForwardEmailLinkText/> <IncludeSubscribeLink>NO</IncludeSubscribeLink> <SubscribeLinkText/> <EmailContentFormat>HTML</EmailContentFormat> <EmailContent> <html lang="en" xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:cctd="http://www.constantcontact.com/cctd"> <body> <CopyRight>Copyright (c) 1996-2009 Constant Contact. All rights reserved. Except as permitted under a separate written agreement with Constant Contact, neither the Constant Contact software, nor any content that appears on any Constant Contact site, including but not limited to, web pages, newsletters, or templates may be reproduced, republished, repurposed, or distributed without the prior written permission of Constant Contact. For inquiries regarding reproduction or distribution of any Constant Contact material, please contact slboucher@shipcarsnow.com. </CopyRight> <OpenTracking/> <!-- Do NOT delete previous line if you want to get statistics on the number of opened emails --> <CustomBlock name="letter.intro" title="Personalization"> <Greeting/> </CustomBlock> </body> </html> </EmailContent> <EmailTextContent> <Text>This is the text version.</Text> </EmailTextContent> <StyleSheet/> <ContactLists> <ContactList id="http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/shipcarsnow1/lists/170"> <link xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" href="/ws/customers/shipcarsnow1/lists/170" rel="self"/> </ContactList> </ContactLists> <FromEmail> <Email id="http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/shipcarsnow1/settings/emailaddresses/8"> <link xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" href="/ws/customers/shipcarsnow1/settings/emailaddresses/8" rel="self"/> </Email> <EmailAddress>slboucher@shipcarsnow.com</EmailAddress> </FromEmail> <ReplyToEmail> <Email id="http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/shipcarsnow1/settings/emailaddresses/8"> <link xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" href="/ws/customers/shipcarsnow1/settings/emailaddresses/8" rel="self"/> </Email> <EmailAddress>slboucher@shipcarsnow.com</EmailAddress> </ReplyToEmail> </Campaign> </content> <source> <id>http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/shipcarsnow1/campaigns </id> <title type="text">Campaigns for customer: shipcarsnow1</title> <link href="campaigns"/> <link href="campaigns" rel="self"/> <author> <name>shipcarsnow1</name> </author> <updated>2009-10-19T19:36:12.622Z</updated> </source> </entry>       ... View more

Richard, Its missed while copy paste the xml from Eclipse, space is there in XML, did  u find any other problem with xml ?   My doubt is do we need to do any thing with settings and what is the significance of the folloowing line ? I have created a sample list 170, added some emilids to that list , apart from that I haven't done any settings/emailaddress like : "/ws/customers/shipcarsnow1/settings/emailaddresses/170     <ContactLists> <ContactList id="http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/shipcarsnow1/lists/170"> <link xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"  href="/ws/customers/shipcarsnow1/lists/170"  rel="self"/> </ContactList> </ContactLists> <FromEmail> <Email id="http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/shipcarsnow1/settings/emailaddresses/170"> <link xmlns=http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"  href="/ws/customers/shipcarsnow1/settings/emailaddresses/170" rel="self"/> </Email> <EmailAddress>rdevapa@upcontractor.up.com</EmailAddress> </FromEmail>   ... View more