Cobalt offers both Key Based and OAuth 2.0 integration for Campaign Monitor. In this guide, we will look at the OAuth App setup process. To setup your Campaign Monitor app in Cobalt for OAuth, you will need the following credentials from your Campaign Monitor account:
  • Client ID
  • Client Secret
  • Scopes

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Pre-requisites

  1. Campaign Monitor Developer account. You can create one here.

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Required Settings

  • Mandatory Scopes
  1. Administer Account
If you haven’t already created an app in Campaign Monitor, you’d need to create one.

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Creating an app in Campaign Monitor

To create a Campaign Monitor app and acquire the above mentioned credentials, please follow the steps mentioned below:
  1. Log in to your Campaign Monitor account.
  2. Click on the Profile icon in the top right and select Integrations button.
Navigation for App setup
  1. Click on OAuth Registration button in the right sidebar.
  2. Go to your Apps catalog in Cobalt > Search for Campaign Monitor > Settings > Use your credentials > Callback Url > Copy it.
  3. In the app registration in Campaign Monitor, provide your app Name, Description , Logo, Home page URL and paste the Callback URL that you copied in Redirect URL field. Click on Register.
  4. Click on View for the app that you created and copy the Client ID and Client Secret displayed.
Getting Credentials

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Configuring credentials in Cobalt

App settings page lets you configure the authentication settings for an OAuth 2.0 based application. For your customers to provide you authorization to access their data, they would first need to install your application. This page lets you set up your application credentials. Setting up application client credentials Provide the acquired Client ID and Client Secret under Settings of the app and save it.

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Configuring Scopes

Cobalt lets you configure what permissions to ask from your users while they install your application. The scopes can be added or removed from the App settings page, under Permissions & Scopes section. For some applications Cobalt sets mandatory scopes which cannot be removed. Additional scopes can be selected from the drop down. Cobalt also has the provision to add any custom scopes supported by the respective platform. OAuth Scopes Once the scopes has been added to the application in Cobalt, the app will now request for access of the mentioned scopes.
If you are facing scopes missing or invalid scope error. Make sure you are not passing any custom scope not supported by the platform.

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Actions and triggers

Once the above setup is completed, you can create orchestrations of your use-cases using Campaign Monitor actions and triggers. Following are the set of Campaign Monitor actions and triggers supported by Cobalt.