I am developing a Journey Builder Custom Activity, in one of the steps on Custom Activity UI, user needs to select a data extension then select a couple of fields. It looks like “UpdateContact” activity in Journey Builder. Does anyone know how to do this?
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Welcome to the club of those who are trying to create custom activities and events for JB.
You will need to use the fuelsdk-node JavaScript library to get a list of all Data Extensions and their fields in a Business Unit. You might want to spend some time and look at an example:
https://github.com/jwalstrom/journey-builder-zapier
In this example you will see how to work with this library. Pay special attention to these files:
- server.js
- /lib/sfmc.js
- /routes/zapier.js
- /public/activity/zapier/js/activity.js
So you will get a point of how you can use SFMC data in your custom journey.
Probably, you will need to use the REST API resources in case you want to get Contact/Event data:
https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.noversion.mc-apis.meta/mc-apis/routes.htm
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