Deprecation of External Landing Page Data Integration with SAP Marketing Cloud

[vervinckt_joyca]

Hi,

In the 2108 What's New Preview I read:

Integration Flows in Integration Package External Landing Page Data Integration with SAP Marketing Cloud are Deprecated

The following integration flows in integration package https://api.sap.com/package/ThirdPartyLandingPageDataIntegrationwithSAPMarketingCloud?section=Overvi... are deprecated and will no longer be available in a future release:

• Create External Landing Page in SAP Marketing Cloud
• Create Landing Page Data in SAP Marketing Cloud
• Get Personalization Data from SAP Marketing Cloud
• Retry Loading Buffered Data to SAP Marketing Cloud

Why is the package being deprecated? In 2105 it was still enhanced to be able to use V4 of the API_MKT_CONTACT_SRV?

What is the alternative?

[SCHNEIDERT]

Pretty good question Joyca

[BACKESSI · Accepted solution]

Hi Joyca, We will provide a blog post to guide you in creating the related iFlows. As soon as it is available I'll post the link here. Kind regards, Silvia

[mattreiner · Accepted solution]

Hi Silvia,

we have a customer who requested this integration scenario (to be implemented asap). Can you pls. advise on the mentioned alternative respectively push publishing of the mentioned blog post?

Thanks,

Matthias

[BACKESSI · Accepted solution]

Please find further info in the CX Works articles External Landing Page Data Integration with SAP Marketing Cloud (Part 1/4)

[vervinckt_joyca · Accepted solution]

silvia.backes :

the blog mentions that in part 4 we should find the downloads for the integration.

However the download link on part 4, refers to a page that cannot be found:

https://www.sap.com/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=2589633916⪯view=%2F2589633916%2F2589638592%2FE...

[BACKESSI · Accepted solution]

Hi Joyca, Let me recheck with the author ... Kind regards, Silvia

[svengreinert · Accepted solution]

Hi Silvia,

the download link in part 4 of the blog post you provided is currently still a 404.

Is there any update on the matter?

Thanks,

Sven

[BACKESSI · Accepted solution]

Sorry, but we are still working on the issue.

[vervinckt_joyca · Accepted solution]

Any updates meanwhile silvia.backes ?

[BACKESSI · Accepted solution]

Thanks for the reminder Joyca! Please find the CX Works article series HERE. Kind regards, Silvia

[vervinckt_joyca · Accepted solution]

silvia.backes

You had already communicated the CX Works article, thanks for that,

but the problem was that on step 4 in this article, there is a download link to the archived copy of that CPI package.

But that download link refers to https://www.sap.com/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=2589633916⪯view=%2F2589633916%2F2662784857%2FExternal+Landing+Page+Data+Integration+with+SAP+Marketing+Cloud+Integration+Package.zip

This is a location that is not accessible for non-SAP-Employees, so could this please be shared on a location that we CAN access?

johannes.hirling I'm tagging you as well as I see you are the author of this blog.

[BACKESSI · Accepted solution]

They are still struggeling with the update.

@Johannes.hirling

[MichaelRey]

Hi Joyca,
thanks a lot for your question.

In 2105 we adopted the integration flow from external landing pages to SAP marketing Cloud to the current contact interface V4 because the previous api V2 already was deprecated some time ago. The V4 is performance optimized and also allows to create contact relations. The V2 created permissions and contacts in parallel which proved sub-optimal and was therefore replaced with V3 and V4. Hence we also had to adopt the V4 interface in our standard iflows.

The iflow that can be used to connect external landing pages will be taken off the api hub next year, but of course customer can still use it, it will not be taken away from their systems.

We have seen that the iflow for external landing pages is used in implementation projects with external tools, hence we decided to also leave the connection of the external tool to the project. To ease the implementation the blog post that Silvia is mentioning above will be published soon.

Thanks for your understanding.

Kind regards

Michael

[SCHNEIDERT]

Hi Michael,

we are using that External Landing Page integration for the integration of the forms on our Website with SAP Marketing Cloud. So, we can always be sure that the iFlows continue to work after a MC upgrade. Is that correct?

BR Tobias

[MichaelRey]

Hi Tobias,

for the next releases I expect that this continues to work. The current API version V4 continues to be the most advanced one for the foreseeable future, there are currently no activities for a higher version.

So, for the foreseeable future (which are the next handful releases) I am confident that it works. "Always" means eternity and is difficult to predict, however we will alert our customers in timely manner if we see a change at the horizon.
Best regards
Michael

[papsoc]

Hello michael.rey and vervinckt.joyca , could you please share the latest version of this package?

We currently use an older version and we urgently need to use Ver.3 of the API. We know it is Deprecated and will not be supported any more, but we are fine with it. We just need the latest available version if possible, which includes the version 3 API.

Kind regards.

Sokratis.

[papsoc]

Forgot to mention that the artifacts are missing, if you open the package in CPI - "discover".

[MichaelRey]

Hi Sokratis,
the latest version supported V4, unfortunately we don't have a version with V3, so I need to recommend to do a project solution.
Best regards
Michael