MailChimp
by Drew SandersonMore than 6 million people use MailChimp to create, send, and track email newsletters. You can now integrate their amazing product directly into FileMaker.
To get started, download it here: mailchimp.fmp12
Since I have been finishing up this module’s documentation on the way to DevCon, I could work with Skitch and Evernote offline so that is where the documentation will live for now. I intend to move it here and over to my website at http://fmsimplicity.com.
The documentation examples are based on integrating it with the Contacts starter solution that comes with FileMaker 13. You can then infer how to integrate it into your own solution.
Advanced integration ( There are about 50 screen shots, so it loads a bit slow… be patient. )
There are currently two dependencies:
1. BaseElements plugin, version 2.3 at the time of release ( July, 29 2014 )
2. JSON Module found at http://www.modularfilemaker.org/module/json/ or https://github.com/dansmith65/FileMaker-JSON
The module works on nine of the many methods MailChimp provides with their API. The functionality is currently concentrated on list maintenance. This is what I had a business case for so far. I am looking forward to seeing what the community has a use case for and develops other methods for inclusion in this module. Another vision would be working towards using the Insert from URL script step with httppost://.
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Drew
Thanks for this
I have a fair bit of dev-work with the httpspost version in a test file if you want to do a bit of sharing.. including some of the other areas not covered here..
John Renfrew
That would be great for everyone. I will send you an email.
hi,
Please let me know which versions of Filemaker will integrate with Mailchimp using this software. I am currently running FileMaker Pro 12. I don’t have Advanced.
Thanks
Liz
Hello
Thank you for this great project that unfortunately works only on API 2.0 of mailchimp
Did you manage to do the modifications for the new API 3.0 ?
If yes , did you plan a deadline ?
Many thanks for your answer
Guillaume
Hi Drew,
Any plans to update this to use the Mailchimp API v3.x ?
I don’t yet have a business need to develop for v3. If I do, I will post. Maybe someone else will take it on.
Hi Drew , Congrats for the script !! 🙂
@James, to work with API v3
change Line 40 in the Mailchimp_API script,
SetVariable
$baseURL
“https://” & $dataCenter & “.api.mailchimp.com/3.0/lists/” & $$ListeMailChimp & “/members/”
///////////////
Anyway Drew, On your demo file , same script, there is a error in Line 180
SetVariable $result
( $url ; $methodParameters )
The missing function is BE_HTTP_POST
I too would love to see this updated to MailChimp API v3. This is incredibly useful
Regardless… thanks for creating this to begin with!
@ArtProMac. I just looked at line 180 and it is ok. I would imagine there is a problem with the installed plugin on your machine. I am not going to change that one line to v3 since I have not tested the implications. I am sure it would work, but I don’t know what might break or work not as expected.
Hello,
This is really a VERY interesting module!
I discovered your module and wondered if there had been development with the mailchimp V3 API or maybe someone else here developed there?
All this is really good work, thank you for sharing!
Thank you !
Grégoire
I have a working version for V3 of their API. I have not posted it because it is not polished.