SendGrid

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Getting started with SendGrid

To use any of the modules, you need to connect your SendGrid account to Boost.space Integrator. If you do not have a SendGrid account yet, you can create one at SendGrid.com

Connecting SendGrid to Boost.space Integrator

To connect your SendGrid account to Boost.space Integrator, follow the general instructions for connecting to any web service. When creating a scenario, you will be asked to provide an API Key. To get your API Key, log in to your SendGrid account and follow the instructions below.

1. Go to Settings in the menu on the left, and open the API Keys dialog.

2. Click on the Create API Key button in the top-right corner.

3. Create the API Key with Full Access permissions.

4. Copy the API Key to the clipboard and save it somewhere else.

5. Paste the API Key to the API Key field in the Create a connection dialog of the desired module and click the Continue button.

6. The connection is now established. You can continue creating your scenario.

Contacts (New)

Watch Contacts (New)

Returns contact details when a new contact is created or an existing contact is updated.

Connection

Establish a connection to your SendGrid account.

Watch

Create + Update

Triggers when a contact is created or update.

Create

Triggers when a contact is created.

Limit

Set the maximum number of contacts Boost.space Integrator will return during one execution cycle.

Create a List (New)

Creates a new contact list.

Connection

Establish a connection to your SendGrid account.

Name

Enter the name for your new list.

Add or Update a Contact (New)

This module adds or updates a contact.

Connection

Establish a connection to your SendGrid account.

List

Select the lists you want to add the contact to.

Email address

Enter the email address of the new contact or the contact you want to update.

If the contact with the entered email address is found, it will be updated.

First name

Enter the new/updated recipient’s first name.

Last name

Enter the new/updated recipient’s last name.

Alternate Emails

Add at most 5 additional email addresses.

Address Line 1

Enter the first lines of the address.

Address Line 2

Enter the second, optional, line of the address.

City

Enter the city of the contact.

State Province Region

Enter the state, province, or region of the contact’s address.

Postal code

Enter the postal code, Eircode, PIN code or ZIP code of the contact’s address.

Country

Enter the country of the contacts address. It can be full name or abbreviation.

Phone number

Enter the contact’s phone number.

Whatsapp

Enter a Whatsapp account of the contact.

Line

Enter the landline phone number.

Facebook

Enter the contact’s Facebook address.

Unique Name

Enter the unique name for the contact.

Contact ID

Enter or select the contact whose email you want to update.

Get All Lists (New)

The module retrieves all of your contact lists.

Connection

Establish a connection to your SendGrid account.

Number of lists

Set the number of returned contact lists.

Get All Contacts (New)

Retrieves all of your marketing campaigns’ contacts.

Connection

Establish a connection to your SendGrid account.

Number of contacts to return

Set the number of returned contacts.

Delete a List (New)

Deletes the list and optionally also deletes contacts associated with the list.

Connection

Establish a connection to your SendGrid account.

List ID

Map or select the list you want to delete.

Delete Contacts

Enable this option to also delete the contacts that are in the list you want to delete.

Delete Contacts (New)

Deletes specified contacts or all contacts at once.

Connection

Establish a connection to your SendGrid account.

Delete all or Specific contacts

Select whether you want to specify the contact(s) to be deleted or delete all contacts.

Contact IDs

Add (and map) IDs of contacts you want to delete.

Delete All Contacts

Enable this option to delete all contacts.

Remove Contacts from a List (New)

Removes contacts from the specified list. It does not delete the contact.

Connection

Establish a connection to your SendGrid account.

List ID

Map or select the list you want to remove the contact(s) from.

Contact IDs

Add the IDs of contacts you want to remove from the list.

Contacts (Legacy)

Legacy modules are for users, who started to use these SendGrid modules before July 2019. Legacy modules do not work for new users as they don’t have the required scopes within the API key.

Watch New Lists (Legacy)

When a new list is created, the List ID, Name, and Recipient Count are returned.

Connection

Establish a connection to your SendGrid account.

Limit

Set the maximum number of lists Boost.space Integrator will work with during one execution cycle.

Watch New Recipients (Legacy)

Retrieves contact details when a new contact is created in the selected list.

Connection

Establish a connection to your SendGrid account.

List ID

Select the list you want to watch for new recipients.

Limit

Set the maximum number of lists Boost.space Integrator will work with during one execution cycle.

Create a List (Legacy)

This module allows you to create a list for your contacts.

Connection

Establish a connection to your SendGrid account.

Name

Enter the name for your new list.

Add or Update Recipient (Legacy)

This module adds or updates a _Marketing Campaign’s_contact.

The rate limit is three requests every 2 seconds. You can upload 1000 contacts per request. So the maximum upload rate is 1500 recipients per second.

Connection

Establish a connection to your SendGrid account.

Email address

Enter the email address of the new contact or the contact you want to update.

If the contact with the entered email address is found, it will be updated.

First name

Enter the new/updated recipient’s first name.

Last name

Enter the new/updated recipient’s last name.

Add Recipients to a List (Legacy)

Adds a contact to a list.

Connection

Establish a connection to your SendGrid account.

List ID

Enter (select from the drop-down menu or map) the ID of the list you want to add the contact to. The List ID can be retrieved, for example, using the Get All Lists search module.

Recipients

Add (select from the drop-down menu or map) the contacts you want to add to the list. The Recipient ID can be retrieved, for example, using the Get All Recipients search module.

Get All Lists (Legacy)

The module retrieves all of your contact lists.

Connection

Establish a connection to your SendGrid account.

Number of lists

Set the number of returned contact lists.

Get All Recipients (Legacy)

Retrieves all of your marketing campaigns’ contacts.

Connection

Establish a connection to your SendGrid account.

List ID

Select the list you want to retrieve recipients from.

Number of recipients

Set the number of returned contacts.

Delete a List (Legacy)

Deletes a contact list.

Connection

Establish a connection to your SendGrid account.

Lists

Add the IDs of the list(s) you want to delete. The List ID can be retrieved, for example, using the Get All Lists search module.

Delete Recipients (Legacy)

This module allows you to delete one or more recipients.

Connection

Establish a connection to your SendGrid account.

Recipients

Select the recipient you want to delete.

Delete Recipients from a List (Legacy)

Deletes recipient from a selected list.

Connection

Establish a connection to your SendGrid account.

List ID

Select the list you want to delete the recipient from.

Recipient ID

Select the recipient or enter (map) the ID of the recipient you want to delete from the list.

Bounces

Get All Bounces

Connection

Establish a connection to your SendGrid account.

Start time

Set the start of the time range when a bounce was created (inclusive).

End time

Set the end of the time range when a bounce was created (inclusive).

Number of bounces

Set the number of returned bounces.

Delete Bounces

Removes a specific email address from your bounce list.

A bounced email is when the message is undeliverable and then returned to the server that sent it.

Connection

Establish a connection to your SendGrid account.

Emails

Add the emails you want to remove from the _Bounces_list.

Delete All Bounces

Deletes all email addresses from the bounce list.

Connection

Establish a connection to your SendGrid account.

Blocks

There are several causes for blocked emails, for example: your mail server IP address is on an ISP block list or blocked by an ISP, or if the receiving server flags the message content.

List Blocks

Retrieves all email addresses that are currently on your block list.

Connection

Establish a connection to your SendGrid account.

Start Time

Enter the start date and time of the range when a blocked email was created (inclusive).

End Time

Enter the end date and time of the range when a blocked email was created (inclusive).

Number of blocked emails to return

Set the maximum number of email addresses Boost.space Integrator will return during one execution cycle.

Get a Block

Retrieves block details.

Connection

Establish a connection to your SendGrid account.

Email address

Enter the blocked email address you want to retrieve details about.

Delete Blocks

Removes all or specified emails from the block list.

Connection

Establish a connection to your SendGrid account.

Delete All or Specific

Select whether you want to delete all or specific emails.

If the Delete Specific Emails option is selected, specify email addresses you want to delete in the Email address field below.

Global Suppressions

List Global Suppressions

Returns all globally suppressed email addresses.

Connection

Establish a connection to your SendGrid account.

Start Time

Enter the start date and time of the range when a suppressed email was created (inclusive).

End Time

Enter the end date and time of the range when a suppressed email was created (inclusive).

Number of emails to return

Set the maximum number of email addresses Boost.space Integrator will return during one execution cycle.

Get a Global Suppression

Checks whether a specified email belongs to global suppressions.

Connection

Establish a connection to your SendGrid account.

Email

Enter the email you want to check.

Add Emails to Global Suppression

Adds email addresses to the global suppressions.

Connection

Establish a connection to your SendGrid account.

Recipient Emails

Enter the emails you want to add to global unsubscribes.

Delete a Global Suppression

Removes an email from global suppressions.

Connection

Establish a connection to your SendGrid account.

Email

Enter the email you want to delete from global unsubscribes.

Other

Send an Email

Connection

Establish a connection to your SendGrid account.

From

Email Address

Enter the email address of the sender.

Name

Enter the name of the sender.

Send to

Add recipient email addresses. The maximum number of email addresses is 1000.

Use SendGrid Transactional template?

Select whether you want to use the SendGrid template or not.

If you select _Yes,_the _Template ID_must be provided. You can retrieve the Template ID via SendGrid – Templates – Transactional.

Map JSON or fill Keys and Values

Enables you to enter data in the template dynamically.

Select whether you want to specify data using JSON or by entering Key and Value pairs.

Dynamic Template Data

Enter JSON or define key and value pairs.

For more information about specifying dynamic template data please refer to the Using Handlebars documentation.

Subject

Enter the subject for the email.

Content type

Select the MIME type of the email content.

Content

Enter the content of the email you want to send.

Attachments

Add the file(s) you want to attach. For inline images enter the Content ID.

Send at

Enter the time and date when the email should be sent.

Scheduling more than 72 hours in advance is not allowed.

Copy recipient

Enter the copy recipient(s). CC – carbon copy. The maximum is 999 recipients.

Blind copy recipient

Enter the blind copy recipient(s). BCC – blind carbon copy. The maximum is 999 recipients.

Reply To

Enter the email address and name that will be used for the email reply.

Headers

Add custom headers if needed.

Make an API Call

Allows you to perform a custom API call.

Connection

Establish a connection to your SendGrid account.

URL

Enter a path relative to https://api.sendgrid.com/v3/. E.g. /marketing/contacts

For the list of available endpoints, refer to the Sendgrid API Documentation.

Method

Select the HTTP method you want to use:

GET: to retrieve information for an entry.
POST: to create a new entry.
PUT: to update/replace an existing entry.
PATCH: to make a partial entry update.
DELETE: to delete an entry.

Headers

Enter the desired request headers. You don’t have to add authorization headers; we already did that for you.

Query String

Enter the request query string.

Body

Enter the body content for your API call.

Example of Use – List Contacts

The following API call returns all marketing contacts in your Sendgrid account:

URL:

/marketing/contacts

Method:

GET

Matches of the search can be found in the module’s Output under Bundle > Body > result.

In our example, 3 contacts were returned:

Legacy article, imported from the original Boost.space knowledge base (/knowledge-base/applications/marketing/sendgrid/).

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