Act-On Connector

Intro

Act-On is a marketing automation platform designed to coordinate inbound and outbound marketing campaigns. To learn more about the Act-On API, visit their page (https://developer.act-on.com/reference/api-overview ).

You connect to your Act-On account in the Data Center. This topic discusses the fields and menus that are specific to the Act-On connector user interface. General information for adding DataSets, setting update schedules, and editing DataSet information is discussed in Adding a DataSet Using a Data Connector.

Prerequisites

To connect to your Act-On account and create a DataSet, you must select the Region.

Connecting to Your Act-On Account

This section enumerates the options in the Credentials and Details panes in the Act-On Connector page. The components of the other panes in this page, Scheduling and Name & Describe Your DataSet, are universal across most connector types and are discussed in greater length in Adding a DataSet Using a Data Connector.

Credentials Pane

The Act-On API supports Oauth mechanism.

This pane contains fields for entering credentials to connect to your Act-On account. The following table describes what is needed for each field:

Field	Description
Region	Select the region. The Default option will use the base URL: https://api.actonsoftware.com in your requests. The EU option will use the EU base URL: https://api-eu.actonsoftware.com in your requests.

Once you have entered valid Act-On credentials, you can use the same account any time you go to create a new Act-On DataSet. You can manage connector accounts in the Accounts tab in the Data Center. For more information about this tab, see Managing User Accounts for Connectors.

Details Pane

This pane contains a primary Reports menu, along with various other menus which may or may not appear depending on the report type you select.

Menu	Description
Report	Select the Act-On report you want to run. The following reports are available: All Contacts Details Returns the details of Contacts using List API. Campaign Message Returns campaign messages. Campaign Message List All Types Returns a campaign messages list of all types. Campaign Message Report Returns campaign message report data. Campaign Message Report Drilldown Returns a campaign message drilldown report. Campaign Message Rollup Returns campaign message rollup data. Contact API Subscription Category Returns a list of contact API subscription categories. Contact By Email Id Returns contacts from the list for the entered email Id. Contact Fact and Score Data Returns the facts and score the available contacts in the list. Content API Form List Returns a list of content API forms. Content API Form Report Returns content API form report data. Content API Header Fetch Returns content API header fetch data. Content API Header List Returns a list of content API headers. Content API Image Fetch Returns content API image fetch data. Content API Image List Returns a list of content API images. Content API Logo List Returns a list of content API logos. Content API Media List Returns a list of content API media. Content API Media Message Drilldown Returns content API media message drilldown data. Content API Media Rollup Report Returns content API media rollup report data. Content API Media Timeline Drilldown Returns content API media timeline drilldown data. Content API Media Views Drilldown Returns content API media views drilldown data. Content API Page List Returns a list of content API pages. Content API Page Report Returns content API page report data. Content API Page URLs Returns a list of content API page URLs. Content API Promotional URLs Returns a list of content API promotional URLs. Fact API Contact Record Facts Returns a list of fact API content record facts. Fact API List Optout Returns fact API list optout data. List API Returns list API data. List API Hard Bounce Returns list API hard bounce data. List API Spam Complaint Returns list API spam complaint data. Messages By Campaign Returns the messages reports related to the selected campaign. SEO API Keywords Returns a list of SEO API keywords.
Email Id	Enter your email address to get all available contacts from your lists. Note: You can find your email address in the E-mail Address column of the All contacts details report.
Fetch contacts for List IDs	Parameter Description All Source IDs Returns the contact details of all present source IDs. Specifc Source Ids Returns the contact details of selected Source IDs.
Source Id	Select the SourceIds associated with the account.
Campaigns	Select the Campaign associated with the account.
Option to Expand	Parameters Description Score Details Expands the list of score details of the specific contacts. List of Activities Expands the list of activities for the contacts.
Listing Type	Select the type of content list you want to pull into your report.
Period	Select a filter for your data.
Date	Select the date for your report. Note that this is a monthly report so only the month and year will be used.
List Id Selection Criteria	Select whether to retrieve data for all or some list IDs.
List ID	Select the list IDs to report.

Other Panes

For information about the remaining sections of the connector interface, including how to configure scheduling, retry, and update options, see Adding a DataSet Using a Data Connector.

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