Every time Automation Studio is triggered, once after the prior steps are done, Journey Activity gets triggered. Now coming back to the Automation Studio, when you reopen it, you will notice a new Audience added as the last step.Īutomation Studio with Journey Builder Activity – Audience.Upon successful validation, click activate. Validate the journey before activating.As usual, before activating, setup the Journey Settings – Contact Entry, Default Email Address.Add other activities like, Email or the flow control or other actions.Select the desired option and click Done.Evaluate all records – Each time Journey Builder runs, all records from the Data Extension is taken into consideration.On selecting, we will still have another option to select all records or only the new records after the Journey Activation for the first run. Evaluate new records only – Journey Builder selects only the new records that has been created since the last run.Edit the Contact Evaluation to specify which records needs to be processed in the Journey Builder.Click the Set Schedule and select the Automation that we created earlier.Next, we need to select the automation in the Schedule Summary.

Click the select after selecting the Automation Schedule Type.

To be noted, when the Data Extension that has been selected in the Step 2 and Step 4 mismatches, then this option will be disabled. Journey Builder – Automation Schedule Type

On clicking Schedule, we get three types of schedule.

Once the Data Extension is added, You will be able to see the Schedule activity below the Data Extension in the canvas.

Select the same Data Extension that is used for the activity in the Step 2.

Now your Automation Studio should look something like this: Automation Studio When the Data Extension is not selected, we will not be able to trigger the Journey Builder. Make sure you do some operation with any of the Data Extension.

Add your desired activity – SQL Query or Script or any other.Configure the Schedule to the future time. Create an Automation, add the Schedule as the Starting Source.In such cases, we may need to rely on the Automation Studio and then call the Journey Builder upon these activities gets completed. Say, to clean up the Data Extension or merge the Data Extensions before sending the bulk email. However, we cannot execute a script or run an SQL query in Journey Builder. Do some updates to the connected SFDC environment like creating a task or a case or updating an object.Utilizing the Splits – Decision, Random, Engagement.There are some reasons we need Journey Builder and not Automation Studio to send email: There are times when we need to integrate both Automation Studio and Journey Builder like sending an email to a set of audience after running a script in a data extension.

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