LWC - Journey Builder Spec Preview

Salesforce Lightning Web Component Cross-Cloud Magic

This Lightning Web Component is designed to be used with the core Salesforce Platform to visualize a Journey from Salesforce Marketing Cloud in the context of Sales, Service, or Community Cloud.

This component ingests a JSON spec of a Journey via the Marketing Cloud APIs.

Preview

Prereqs

• A valid Marketing Cloud org with a server-to-server integration set up
  • The client_id and client_secret for the above
• A core Salesforce org to deploy your component in
• Knowledge of custom metadata types

Deployment

Marketing Cloud Setup

• In MC setup, go to Installed Packages and create a New Package
• Add Component and select API Integration, and Server to Server
• Enable Read access to Journeys

Force.com Setup

• Use SFDX to deploy the source to your desired org
• Change the Remote Site Settings for MarketingCloudRESTURL and MarketingCloudAuthURL to whitelist the auth and rest endpoints for your instance of Marketing Cloud
• Add to the Marketing Cloud Credentials custom metadata type a record (API) named MCCConfig with the following attributes populated based on your MC app details:
  • Client_ID__c
  • Client_Secret__c
  • AUTH_URL__c
  • REST_URL__c
  • MID__c
• Add the lwcJourneyBuilderPreview component to your desired page
• Configure the component's attributes to feed in the Journey ID and Journey type names for your Marketing Cloud instance
  • The three attributes allow you to populate the Journey GUIDs and friendly names that are used when you click the "Create Journey" button
    • Each set corresponds with one drop-down selection item

To Do

• Continue to refine the drawing to accomodate snowflake cases in the JSON spec
• Write the value to a record to allow for loading it without hitting "Create" again.