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Triggers administration
Unica Campaign allows you to define inbound and outbound triggers that can be used in all flowcharts in a partition.
Working with trigger folders and triggers
You can create inbound and outbound triggers and organize them in folders.
To create a trigger
You can define inbound and outbound triggers that can be used in all flowcharts in a partition.

Administrator Guides
- Administrator Guide
  - Unica Campaign administration overview
    The Settings menu provides access to most of the tasks that Unica Campaign administrators typically perform.
  - Security in Unica Campaign
    Security policies control user access to the objects and features in Unica Campaign.
  - Database table administration
    Unica Campaign administrators must perform initial one-time tasks and routine administration tasks that pertain to database tables.
  - Customizing campaigns
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  - Offer template concepts
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    Choose Campaign > Monitoring and use the All monitored runs page to view the status of all active flowcharts and suspend, resume, or stop flowchart runs.
  - Dimension hierarchy concepts
    A dimension hierarchy is a data construct that groups data into bins based on value ranges. Dimension hierarchies are the basis for a variety of reports.
  - Triggers administration
    Unica Campaign allows you to define inbound and outbound triggers that can be used in all flowcharts in a partition.
    - What is an inbound trigger?
      An inbound trigger is a message that is broadcast to one or more campaigns. You can configure a flowchart to "listen" for a particular trigger to start the execution of one or more processes.
    - What is an outbound trigger?
      An outbound trigger is the execution of a command, batch file, or script that takes place after a flowchart or process is run. You can define triggers to perform virtually any action, such as opening an application, sending an email, or running a program.
    - How are triggers defined?
      You define triggers when editing a flowchart. A trigger that you define in one flowchart is available to all flowcharts in the same partition.
    - Working with trigger folders and triggers
      You can create inbound and outbound triggers and organize them in folders.
      - To create a trigger
        You can define inbound and outbound triggers that can be used in all flowcharts in a partition.
      - To edit or move a trigger
        You can change the name and descriptive note for a trigger or move it to another folder. If you change a trigger name, any processes referring to that trigger will become unconfigured and will be unable to run. You must edit each process to refer to the new trigger name.
      - To delete a trigger
        If you delete a trigger, any processes that refer to that trigger will become unconfigured and unable to run. You must edit each process to remove the reference to the deleted trigger.
      - To create folders to organize triggers
        You can use folders to organize triggers.
      - Moving a trigger folder
        You can move trigger folders. You must have permissions to move trigger folders.
      - Editing a trigger folder
        You can change the name and descriptive note for a trigger folder. You must have permissions to edit trigger folders.
      - To delete a trigger folder
        You can delete trigger folders.
    - Setting up outbound triggers
      You must have permissions to use triggers in a flowchart.
    - Setting up inbound triggers
      You must have permissions to use triggers in a flowchart.
    - Setting up the trigger utility on a remote Windows machine
      You can configure a Windows machine to send triggers to a Unica Campaign installation on UNIX or Windows. For Windows installation, ensure that the listener port is open for incoming traffic on the Campaign listener machine. Follow these steps to set up the unica_actrg utility and required files on a remote Windows machine.
    - Tokens supported by triggers
      Tokens can be used in the command line of an outbound trigger to pass specific information from the running flowchart.
    - Unica Campaign trigger utility syntax
      The trigger utility (unica_actrg) supports the following syntax and options.
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  - About codes in Unica Campaign
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  - Accessing the Advanced settings
    When a flowchart is open for editing, administrators can choose the Advanced settings option on the Admin menu to make administrative changes that affect only the current flowchart.
  - Unica Campaign integration with other products
    Unica Campaign optionally integrates with a number of other products.
  - Unica Campaign listeners
    The listener is a key component of Unica Campaign. It provides an interface between front-end clients and back-end analytical server processes.
  - Unica Campaign utilities
    Administrators use the Unica Campaign utilities to manage listeners, sessions, and flowcharts, and perform other important administrative tasks.
  - Configuring the ACOOptAdmin tool
    Configure the ACOOptAdmin tool to run Unica Optimize sessions from the command line.
  - Non-ASCII data in Unica Campaign
    Unica Campaign supports the use of localized data and non-United States locales, including multiple user-preferred locales within the same installation of the application.
  - Configuration properties for Unica Campaign
    The configuration properties of Unica Campaign are located at SettingsConfiguration. For more details on the configuration properties, see the Campaign Administrator Guide.
  - About special characters
    Some special characters are not supported in any Unica Campaign object names. In addition, some objects have specific naming restrictions.
  - Introduction to character encodings
    This section provides information on character encodings and language-sensitive database considerations, and lists the encodings supported by Unica Campaign.
  - About Unica Campaign Error Codes
    Unica Campaign notifies users of error events when they occur with error messages that consist of a code number and error text.
  - Troubleshooting
- System Tables

Creating triggers

You can define inbound and outbound triggers that can be used in all flowcharts in a partition.

Before you begin

You must have permissions to create triggers.

Procedure

When editing a flowchart, open the Options menu and select Stored triggers.

The Stored Trigger Definitions window opens.
Click New Item.
The data fields for the new trigger appear on the right of the window.
Optionally, select a folder to save the trigger to in the Save under list.

Note: The folder location governs which users can access the trigger, based on the folder's security policy.
Enter a name for the trigger in the Name field.
- You cannot use spaces in the string, but you can use underscores (_).
- This name must be unique within the folder where you save it.
If you are creating a trigger in the top-level folder, select a security policy, or keep the default.
Optionally, enter a description of the trigger in the Note field.
You can provide a free-form text description of the trigger for documentation purposes. You also may want to keep a modification history of who modified the trigger, when, and what changes were made.
In the Command field, you can enter path to the trigger file. It can be the path relative to the current partition root and file-name of the executable file on the Unica Campaign server. Or you can enter full file path to the location of the trigger file. You con also click Browse to select an executable file from within the current partition.

If you are creating an outbound trigger, to make it synchronous, terminate the command with a question mark (?).

To make the trigger asynchronous, do not terminate the command with a special character, or use an ampersand (&).
Click Save and Close

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