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Get Started with Connected Campaigns
If you purchased Account Engagement after March 22, 2019, Connected Campaigns is partially enabled by default. To configure campaigns to work best for your business, complete a few tasks.
Required Editions
| Available in: Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience |
| Available in: All Account Engagement Editions with Salesforce Essentials, Professional, Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer Editions |
| User Permissions Needed | |
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| To connect campaigns: | Account Engagement Administrator role |
To work with Account Engagement Campaigns in Account Engagement Lightning App, add the Account Engagement Campaigns tab to the navigation.
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Open the Connected Campaigns page.
- In Account Engagement, open Settings and click Edit. Scroll to Connected Campaigns.
- In the Lightning app, select Account Engagement Settings and then Connectors. Click the gear icon to edit the Salesforce connector, and select the Campaigns tab.
- In the campaign record types section, deselect Master Record Type.
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Create a Account Engagement record type to use for syncing Salesforce campaigns.
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From the Campaigns tab, click
and select Edit Object.
- Click Record Types, and then New.
- Create and save one or more record types to use with Account Engagement campaigns.
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From the Campaigns tab, click
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Create Salesforce campaigns for default Account Engagement campaigns.
- From the Campaigns tab, click New.
- Create three campaigns: Website Tracking, Email Plug-In, and Salesforce Sync.
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From the Account Engagement Campaigns tab, map default Account Engagement campaigns.
- For the Email Plug-In campaign, click the action menu and select Connect to CRM Campaign.
- Select the Email Plug-In Salesforce campaign that you created in Step 4.
- Repeat these steps for the Website Tracking and Salesforce Sync campaigns.
If you have any other existing Account Engagement campaigns, repeat steps 4 and 5 for them so that every campaign has a counterpart. For a large number of existing campaigns, you can connect them in bulk. -
Return to the Salesforce Connector setup page in Account Engagement Settings, and then
enter a default campaign.
- Open the Connector Settings tab, and select Automatically create prospects in Pardot if they are created as a Lead or Contact in Salesforce.
- In the dropdown, select the Salesforce Sync campaign that you created in Step 4.
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Return to Connected Campaigns settings and turn over campaign management to
Salesforce.
- From the Salesforce Connector setup page, click Campaigns.
- In the campaign record types section, select the Account Engagement record type that you created in Step 3.
- Select Use Salesforce to manage all campaigns.
Now you’re ready to start creating Salesforce campaigns. Each time you create a campaign in Salesforce, an equivalent campaign is created in Account Engagement. That Account Engagement campaign generates new prospects and tracks marketing engagement, which appears as Engagement History on your campaign records.
To automatically create lead records from new prospects, add an assignment completion action to your marketing forms.
To automatically add prospects as members to a campaign, create an automation.

