Engagement Map: Show Me the Flow
The Backstory
One of the challenges when reviewing our smart campaign designs (or someone else's) is following the flow between smart campaigns. One of the powerful capabilities of Marketo Engage is the ability to modularize functions by requesting other campaigns. A challenge is that a Request Campaign step does just that, it requests it to run and then the flow just continues along to the next step. That why we have to add these random "Wait" steps, if the work of the requested smart campaign needs to finish. So we turn the dial on our secret decoder ring, and it says "Don't forget to drink your Ovaltine!" ... oh wait, sorry, that's a different story. Anyhow we make a random, educated guess that 5 minutes will be long enough and cross our fingers. 🤞
Then, Executables enter the game and things change for the better. Now we can make a call to another smart campaign that will run, while our parent flow waits for it to finish. (There are a few things
