Adobe Campaign development follows four phases. Each has its own toolset — these resources cover what you’ll hit in production.
Create > Target > Launch > Extend
CREATE - Build the Content
Deliveries, templates, personnalization, dynamic content
- Add variables from a Workflow in a Delivery
- Delivery & Campaign overview
- Format Prices - NL.Locale cheatsheet
- Dates best practices
- Barcodes and QR codes
- UTM tracking links
- Audit Privacy Policies with acc
- List Promo Codes with acc
TARGET - Segment the Audience
Workflows, queries, segmentation, temporary data
- queryDef and NLWS — Database toolkit
- JavaScript, SQL and XML Reference for workflows
- Sub-workflow activity
- Filter Recipient by Email ISP
- Create Raw data in temporary table
- Use Javascript libraries (MomentJS, Lodash)
- Custom SQL functions
LAUNCH - Test and Send
Sending, monitoring, SFTP, reporting, post-send
EXTEND - Going Further
Web apps, JSSP, infrastructure, intégrations, DevOps
Public web pages
DevOps
- Modern development best practices — coding standards, prettier, jest, and Git for Adobe Campaign
- acc CLI — pull your instance configuration as local source files
- Use cases with acc CLI — code quality, traceability, AI-assisted review
Infrastructure
Adobe Resources
- Adobe Campaign Product Page on adobe.com
- About Adobe Campaign Classic
- Main documentation portal
- On-prem VS Hybrid VS Hosted and details as a table
- Architecture and Deployment types
- Global Search - search in the ACC tutorials, the videos, the Knowledge Base and the Community Forum
- Official ACC tutorials - Tutorials as web pages
- Official “How-To” videos - Video tutorials
- Official “Using ACC” videos - Video tutorials NEW!
- Official Knowledge base (kb)
- Official workflow Use cases - Business cases
- Official workflow Best Practices
- Official Database Model Best Practices
- Browsing Lists - Add/Remove a field in a list, count records, sort, search
- Formats and Units - Date & time formats (US %2M/%2D/%4Y vs EN %2D/%2M/%4Y) and time units (s-seconds, mn-minute, h-hour, d-day)
- Format dates
- Folders organization Best Practices
- All about Recipients
- All about Marketing Campaigns & Deliveries
Database
- Data Schemas Reference
- Physical data Model & tables relations - Relational diagrams between objects with primary keys, foreign keys and fields
- Input Forms Reference
Workflow
- Repository of Activities: Targeting, Flow Control, Action, Event
- External accounts
- Navigation hierarchy
Native objects
Marketing Campaigns & Deliveries
- Delivery Best Practices - Marketing
- Delivery Best Practices - Technical
- Multi-channel campaigns
- Recurring vs Continuous deliveries - Adobe Doc
- Recurring vs Continuous deliveries - Adobe Forum
- Recurring vs Continuous deliveries - marketingcloudblog.com
- Javascript templating langage (JST) in deliveries
- XSL templating langage (XSLT) for HTML and XML
-
Workflows and deliveries and Enrich a Delivery with
targetData
Javascript reference
Server help
- serverConf.xml doc
- serverConf.xml content
- SOAP API & web services
- WSDL doc
- Database cleanup task (cleanup workflow)
- nlserver doc
- Logs - log files and folders
Product changelog
- Latest Release Notes - Changelog since the GDPR Update on 2018-04-24 (18.4 update - Build 8931)
- Old Release Notes - Changelog from ACC 6.11 8552 on 2014-05-21 to the GDPR update
- Control Panel updates (AWS instances only)
- Deprecated Features - Don’t use those features, javascript calls and activities anymore as they might present a risk or a future malfunction
Security & Privacy
Community
- Official homepage for Campaign Classic
- Official Forum
- Submit an Idea
- Browse Ideas
- Official Youtube channel
Support
Links below require access from Adobe.
- Adobe Console & Support - Manage Products, Users & Tickets
- Adobe Control Panel - Manage Instances, SFTP, Certificates, SSH Keys
- Adobe Software Distribution - Download Adobe Campaign Classic package for local installation (Debian, Red Hat, Windows) & Console
- Support tickets - OLD - Create and manage communication with Adobe dedicated Support
- Download center - OLD - Download installation RPM/EXE, Client EXE, JS API as CHM..
Installation
- Official prerequisites
- Official install for Linux
- Official install for Windows
- Compatibility matrix - OS, web & database (RDBMS) servers, JDK compatible versions
Article based on the Awesome Github lists concept.
This list only concerns Adobe Campaign Classic (and not the web-based version Adobe Campaign Standard).