Creating Wait Events

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Wait Events in Journey Builder transform static marketing paths into responsive, data-driven interaction loops. By leveraging these events, journeys pivot from generic scheduling to behavioral intelligence, ensuring communication is perfectly timed to a contact's real-time actions.

Tracking incoming messages

  1. Click Wait Until Event

  2. Click Create New

  3. Enter the API Name

  4. Copy the Event Definition Key

  5. Click Data Extension

  6. Click MogliCallbackTracking

  7. Click Add Wait Event

  8. Paste Event Definition Key into the Configure wait event field

  9. Select the tracking option based on how you want to measure engagement.

    • Contact Clicks Link in Message tracks URL clicks.

    • Contact Replies to Message if you want the wait event to continue until the contact sends a reply.

Click "Save"

Tracking URL engagement

  1. Navigate to https://mc.s13.exacttarget.com/cloud/#app/Journey%20Builder/%2332160831-a42d-4c05-8743-392ee2d0ec61/1

  2. Click Wait Until Event

  3. Click Create New

  4. Enter the API Name

  5. Copy the Event Definition Key

  6. Click Data Extension

  7. Click Mogli CustomDX

  8. Click Maximum Wait Duration

  9. Click Mogli

  10. Paste Event Definition Key into the Configure wait event field

  11. Click Save