Merge forms

When a flowchart is republished in Campaign, a new form is generated that must be merged with the old one.

If the new flowchart shows a new parameter, you must merge the form to have that parameter appear.

When you merge forms, note the following.

  • For trivial flowchart changes (for example, when a lookup value for an existing user variable is added), you do not need to take any action, other than republishing the flowchart in Campaign. Distributed Marketing recognizes these changes automatically.
    Note: However, in this example, you do have the option of not merging the change if Distributed Marketing uses different lookup values.
  • If user variables are added to or deleted from the flowchart, the system alerts marketers to the fact they need to revalidate their Lists and On-demand Campaigns.
  • Some small changes that are made to a flowchart are ignored by Distributed Marketing. For example, changes to localized text such as labels, prompts, and option prompts are ignored, because Distributed Marketing users typically modify this data. Therefore, the system does not overwrite these changes.
  • If you show new user variables in a flowchart, and there are already objects in Distributed Marketing that use this flowchart, the system does not update the existing objects with a default value for any new attributes.