Implementing Contact Subscription overview
The following procedure provides an overview how to create, install and configure a Contact subscription model so that users can subscribe to a Mailing, confirm subscription, unsubscribe and change their profile.
Procedure
- Develop Contact Subscription pages:
You can implement your own subscription model using the Outbound E-mail Content Delivery APIs, or modify and use the sample Subscription model shipped with Audience Manager.
- Install Contact Subscription pages:
You need to install Subscription components and resources on a publicly accessible Web site.For more information, see Installing Contact Subscription on Presentation Server
- Configure Contact Subscription:
- You need to configure confirmation e-mails, in the
OutboundEmail.xmlconfiguration file, to notify the user of a change in their subscription status. - You need to specify the Synchronization Target used to synchronize data in each Publication.
- You need to configure your
<ExtendedDetails>in thecd_audience_manager.conf.xmlis the configuration file.
- You need to configure confirmation e-mails, in the
- Install Contact synchronization page:
You need to install the Synchronization components in a Web application and create and configure a Synchronization Target on the Content Manager to synchronize Contacts and Segments (between the Audience Manager database and the Subscription database).For more information, see Setting up a Synchronization Server for Contacts
- Implement subscription links in Mailings:
You need to add template code to your Page Templates to insert subscription links in E-mails. These links allow users to confirm subscription, change their profile, or unsubscribe. The link is the URL of the Web page in which the user can confirm subscription and a query string identifying the Contact. You need to add code to your Page Templates to insert subscription links in E-mails using the Modular or VBScript Templating Frameworks.For more information, see Adding Subscription Links.