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Is there a way to check date dynamically in eloqua?


Context: I am using Microsoft Dynamics (CRM) and Eloqua to send email campaigns. I have a date field in CRM that I want to check against in Eloqua for a specific campaign. This campaign needs to check to see if the date field is <= today's date + 90 days. I am using the campaign UI in Eloqua, not doing anything programmatically at this point.

  • I have tried using the Compare Custom Object Fields decision in Eloqua by finding the date field, setting the comparator to dynamically on or before, and I want to make the compared value Today + 90 days. I'm not sure how to accomplish this in this type of Decision object because the only options I have to compare the date field to are Yesterday, Today, or Tomorrow. See image below: enter image description here

  • I have also tried to use the Compare Date Decision object, but there is no dynamic comparison, just hard-coded date options.

  • The last thing I tried was a Wait step, but that only waits a hard-coded number of days rather than checking dynamically.

Has anyone run into this issue or know of a solution to this problem?


Solution

  • We were able to find an Eloqua Date App to download that adds a Date Decision step to the program builder which allowed us more flexibility with comparing dates in a custom range.

    Date Decision App - Details