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wal

Reputation: 17719

create a campaign using a 'new builder' template

I have a MailChimp Email Template that looks like the following (note the id 10564231)

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I am creating a new campaign via the API

{
  "type": "regular",
  "recipients": {
    "list_id": "..."   
  },
  "settings": {
    "subject_line": "a test",
    "preview_text": "",
    "title": "",
    "from_name": "...",
    "reply_to": "...",    
    "template_id": 10564231
  },   
  "content_type": "template"
}

this works and the returned JSON looks similar to

{
...
    "settings" : {
    ...
    "template_id": 10564231
    }
}

however when you look at the campaign it does not use the template - instead it has some placeholder info that looks like this

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It seems to have reverted to 'Classic builder' and the template is not being used.

Why is mailchimp not using the template?

As an aside, if you use a template that was created with the "Classic" builder everything works

Upvotes: 1

Views: 289

Answers (1)

Mario Brazil - Sage IE
Mario Brazil - Sage IE

Reputation: 41

I had the same problem and the issue was the setting of Content type. The API documentation has two option.

  • template - which used the classic builder
  • multichannel - which use the new builder

Upvotes: 0

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