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imru · ‎03-05-2019

I'm using some custom Coldfusion classes I designed (so long ago I barely remembered where all the files were), I haven't had a single API class fail since I put the code in place (and I add about 50 new contacts a day). I wonder if their API endpoint is trying to force a specific version of TLS or something (on the version of Coldfusion I use the http function doesn't support TLS 1.2...but this kind of change is typically communicated long in advance). I do have a way around this but I don't want to start changing code that's been in place in prod for this long unless I need to. The exact string I'm getting back is " Connection Failure. Status code unavailable."

imru · ‎03-05-2019

Hello - I've been using the same code and integration for well over a year and today I started getting Connection Failures every time I call the APIs ( "https://api.constantcontact.com/v2/...") ...I believe around 11am this morning. Is it possible anything changed or I may have inadvertently changed something? Thanks - Steve

imru · ‎12-14-2018

Thank you for your prompt response. I actually don't ever want to directly add contacts to the master list. I just want it to exist to help lessen the amount of clicking when I am on the screen where I select the recipients of an email (where you select the timing of the send, etc). Since I have so many lists, scrolling through them all and selecting the ones I want becomes time-consuming when scheduling weeks of emails campaigns at a time (and also the more lists I have to select the greater the chance I might select the wrong list...and some of my list have 50,000+ contacts). If I merge the contacts from list A, B, C, and D into "MASTER"...and a users goes onto my website and chooses to opt into List A (which gets sent to CC via my API integration)...will that user also be added to the list "MASTER"? Or is merging contacts not dynamic and only a one time merge. Here's a quick example I can think of: List: A: person1@gmail.com B: person2@gmail.com C: person3@gmail.com 😧 person4@gmail.com Merge the lists into MASTER MASTER: person1@gmail.com, person2@gmail.com, person3@gmail.com, person4@gmail.com A new users goes onto my site and requests to be added to list A, so now: A: person1@gmail.com, NEWperson@gmail.com Does the list MASTER now consist of: person1@gmail.com, person2@gmail.com, person3@gmail.com, person4@gmail.com, NEWperson@gmail.com Thanks again for your help!

imru · ‎12-14-2018

So I have a series of lists that grow based off users subscribing to various services on my website (basically when a user signs up, their email address gets sent to CC via the API integration I created and the email is added to its respective list). Let's call these lists A, B, C, and D. When I send out marketing emails, sometimes I send them to an individual list and sometimes I send them to all of the lists. What I'd like to do is create a list, let's call it MASTER that is comprised of list A, B, C, and D. This way I don't need to keep selecting all 4 lists when sending out emails and I can just select the list MASTER. I would also need MASTER to grow as each list it is comprised of grows. So if a contact is added to list A, it is also added to the composite list MASTER. Please let me know if you need any further clarification. Looking through the documentation it appears that I can do this, I just want to ensure the MASTER list grows as the sub-lists grow (or shrink if people opt out). I don't want the lists to end up out of sync as that would defeat the purpose of this (The reason I want to do this is that we have daily, weekly, and monthly options...and it's becoming annoying having to keep searching through my lists and selecting all the ones I want. My lists are also much more complex than this, as we allow users to really hone in on what they do and do not want...I just made this case simple for example)

imru · ‎02-11-2018

I vote yes!

imru · ‎02-11-2018

Just making sure no one has forgotten about this any chance this has showed up on a release schedule in 2018?

imru · ‎02-11-2018

Hello! Once you have started an A/B test, it doesn't look like there is a way to cancel the final send (once the winner is determined after 6 or 24 or whatever hours). Am I missing something? I've tried everything.

imru · ‎10-26-2017

Any update here? This has been opened for a month (and apparently requested many times before)

imru · ‎10-12-2017

Constant Contact Moderators: So how does this work, as this request has been open for months now and is a very basic request your competitors ALL support. Without this feature it is impossible to have a person click a link in an email and move between email lists (for instance, a text and a video version).

imru · ‎09-28-2017

Yes

imru · ‎09-28-2017

It's extremely frustrating that you do not support dynamic links, either through the normal editor or advanced html editor. This makes it impossible to have a customer click a link in the email and move themselves to a different link (I can't even send them back to my site without then forcing them to login, the create an email list change page...this is a terrible experience). Ideally allowing us to create a link in the editor where we can insert a string and a contact variable would be ideal, but simply allowing us to store a link as a custom field and then referencing that field ($Subscriber.custom.CustomField1..2..3, etc) in a <a href> tag in the advanced editor would work.

imru · ‎09-28-2017

To follow up on this, is there any behavioral differences between an ACTIVE versus a HIDDEN list..or for the purposes of subscribing contacts to (and moving them between) lists, can this be ignored.

imru · ‎09-08-2017

The behavior is fine, i mean it's not ideal but it is what it is...but it would be good to know that on the front end side when uploading a list. Good to know this will be implemented in v3 though, thanks for the tip Jimmy!

imru · ‎09-04-2017

This has nothing to do with the UI and everything to do with the APIs. Once I dug around and found out that the APIs will not return a custom_filed unless it follows the naming convention CustomFieldn (n=1-15) this resolved. It's very frustrating that this isn't explicitly called out in the documentation...especially when uploading a contact list on the front end.

imru · ‎09-01-2017

Hello - Using, https://api.constantcontact.com/v2/contacts, I'm getting a properly formed response, but the custom_fields structure is empty (and there is a (right now literally ONE, which does appear in the UI) custom field associated with this contact).. The contact id is: "id":"1145136430", "job_title":"","company_name":"","home_phone":"","work_phone":"","cell_phone":"","custom_fields":[],"created_date":"2017-08-31T17:54:12.000Z","modified_date":"2017-08-31T18:39:07.000Z","source_details":""}]} Is this by design? I need that custom_field to return as it's my primary key in my databases.

imru · ‎09-01-2017

Great just as i'm developing to v2...haha (such is life). No worries, thanks Jimmy!!

imru · ‎08-31-2017

After a bunch of trial and error, I figured it out...for those who might still be using coldfusion (My app is still in the stone age, on coldfusion 8.01)..here's what you need. name = Authorization value = Bearer [TOKEN] *Note: You need a mashery account, API key, and token generated...also replace [APIKEY] with your api_key and [TOKEN] with your token (without square brackets)   <cfset api_key = "api_key=[APIKEY]">  <cfset uri = "https://api.constantcontact.com/v2/account/info?">  <cfset fullURI= uri & api_key>  <cfhttp url="#fullURI#" method="GET" charset="utf-8"> <cfhttpparam name="Authorization" type="header" value="Bearer [TOKEN]" /> </cfhttp>

imru · ‎08-31-2017

Hello - My app is in coldfusion so there aren't any wrappers to use. I generate a token from the I/O docs and have my api key, but what are you expecting to be passed in the http header? Or am I doing this incorrectly? For example... <cfhttp url="https://api.constantcontact.com/v2/account/info?api_key=adhrawqfpbgpucj78qdg6d7e" result="objGet"> <cfhttpparam type="header" name="username" value="MY CC USERNAME" /> <cfhttpparam type="header" name="token" value="GENERATED TOKEN" /> </cfhttp>

imru · ‎08-31-2017

Thanks Caitlin, while I don't think this will change your answer, I'm actually looking to insert the date into the body of the email and not the subject.

imru · ‎08-31-2017

Was this ever implemented?

imru · ‎08-29-2017

I've noticed this is the answer people have been getting since 2013...is this something actually on your enhancement roadmap at this time?

imru · ‎08-28-2017

I've only found very old posts on this topic, so I apologize if it's been answered. Is there anyway to have the current date pulled into an email (through the advanced editor). I'm setting up emails that go out daily and I need them to say "Your tip for TODAY'S DATE" Thank you!

imru · ‎08-25-2017

I can't seem to find any coldfusion wrappers built for v2 of your api...are they buried somewhere? The link you provided only has php, java, iOS, and c#

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Re: Suddenly receiving Connection Failure

Suddenly receiving Connection Failure

Re: Creating a list of lists

Creating a list of lists

Re: Share template with other accounts

Re: Dynamic Links

Cancelling A/B test

Re: Dynamic Links

Re: Dynamic Links

Re: Dynamic Date Request

Dynamic Links

Re: Contact List Status Attribute

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Re: custom_field returning empty

custom_field returning empty

Re: Sign Up Form w/ Tags

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v2 API & header names

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Date field

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