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layout: post
title: Build an Eloqua Action Service and make it Open-Source
subtitle:
category: general
tags: [cto, open-source, culture]
author: melania_andrisan
author_email: melania.andrisan@haufe-lexware.com
header-img: "images/bg-post.old.jpg"
---
Some time ago... the story of building an [Eloqua App][eloqua app] begins. First, [Bogdan][bogdan] (one of my colleagues) starts to investigate what can be done and after digging and digging in the old and new documentation he realizes what it’s possible. After 2 weeks of building and debugging the first version of our Eloqua App appears.
Our Eloqua App is a service meant to provide a small box in a campaign which can receive a list of contacts from the campaign and deliver emails with a form with their data. We are using Eloqua to create different Marketing Campaigns and in case you are not familiar with it you can have a look at the [official Oracle Page][Oracle].
To be able to do this we needed to build a Node Service with Express (it could be any type of REST service) which can serve the needed Endpoints:
- Create - the endpoint is called when the App is initialized, and this is happening when the marketer drags the app box into the campaign
- Configure - is called when the marketer chooses to configure the app by double clocking the App box in the campaign. This Endpoint delivers some HTML to make the configuration possible.
- Notify - is called automatically by Eloqua when the campaign is active and the list of contacts ends up into the App box
- Delete - is called when the App is deleted from the campaign
And back to the story now... we deployed the App in Azure, and we started using it in a campaign. Some weeks after, Eloqua changes the API and some static fields which were configured in the needed form where not appearing anymore.
Here I enter into the story and start investigating; it looks like Eloqua does not offer the possibility to store other fields than the ones attached to an Eloqua entity anymore. Having this problem to solve I added a [Mongodb][Mongodb] with [Mongoose][Mongoose] to the project and saved the needed fields there. Doing this I realized that we can improve our code and instead of using the old callbacks I switched to promises.
I built also some Docker scripts to have the app containerized and made everything opened source.
On Github you can find the Server, the docker containers and a Readme file which explains everything we learned from building this App.
Enjoy! and Happy cloning!
[bogdan]:https://github.com/cimpoesub
[eloqua app]:https://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/marketingcs_gs/OMCAB/#Developers/AppCloud/Develop/develop-action-service.htm%3FTocPath%3DAppCloud%2520Development%2520Framework%7CDevelop%2520Apps%7C_____3
[Mongodb]:https://www.mongodb.com/
[Mongoose]:http://mongoosejs.com/
[Oracle]:https://www.oracle.com/marketingcloud/products/marketing-automation/index.html