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Dan_Askin
Dan_Askin
Level 4
May 3, 2017
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Marketo Puzzle: Randomly Assigned "Lucky #"

  • May 3, 2017
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We're bouncing around a ETW lottery idea. Concept is fairly simple:

Person enters contest.

Person gets a randomly assigned lucky # within a range, 00001 and 99999

No number within the range can be distributed more than once

We email entrants with their randomly assigned lucky #

Is this possible within Marketo?

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    SanfordWhiteman
    SanfordWhiteman
    Level 10
    May 4, 2017

    For the lurkers: Dan asked me about this offline as well (we've worked together on such things before). The answer I gave is...

    It's not possible within Marketo, but easy with FlowBoost. 3 lines of code:

    var allLuckies = new Array(100000).fill().map( (itm,idx) => idx ),
        contest19 = FBRandom.getSequence().seed(19),
        myLuckyNumber = FBRandom.shuffle( contest19, allLuckies )[{{lead.Id}}];

    The number 19 here is just an arbitrary # you assign to the contest. You can have an unlimited number of contests over time, and a lead will have a different lucky number in each contest (and of course unique within the contest).

    N.B. For reasons that will be apparent after some ruminatin', you need more than 6 digits' worth of codes if your Marketo database is bigger than 6 digits, i.e. if you have a million contacts do new Array(1000000).

    Since this is such a straightforward use for FB, I'll blog about how it works this weekend.

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