Responsys

Registration Forms

There are few different ways of getting subscription data into Responsys. You can set up a Responsys hosted form, build your own form and POST data to Responsys, use their API, etc.

POSTing directly to Responsys

1. Build your form HTML. Here's an example
2. Send a POST request to Responsys with your subscription data. The example form uses Curl to send this request.
   1. POST to this URL: http://awesomeness.mozilla.org/pub/rf
   2. Include the following in your POST data...
      1. _ri_ = some unique form ID. This basically tells Responsys where to put your data.
         1. for production, _ri_ = X0Gzc2X%3DUQpglLjHJlTQTtQyTQ3qQ0OQQzgQvQviRVwjpnpgHlpgneHmgJoXX0Gzc2X%3DUQpglLjHJlTQTtQyTQ3qQ0NQQGQvQvH3
         2. for dev/stage, _ri_ = X0Gzc2X%3DUQpglLjHJlTQTtQ1vQ2rQ0bQQzgQvQy8KVwjpnpgHlpgneHmgJoXX0Gzc2X%3DUQpglLjHJlTQTtQ1vQ2rQ0aQQGQvQwPD
      2. A flag to indicate which newsletter the user is signing up for. For example, the about:mozilla newsletter uses, "ABOUT_MOZILLA_FLG = Y". about:mobile is "ABOUT_MOBILE_FLG = Y". This field needs to be set up in the Responsys schema before use.
      3. A similar flag marks when the user signed up. For example, "ABOUT_MOZILLA_DATE = 2010-09-30 10:00:00"
      4. You can include any other data that maps to an existing Responsys field. For example, about:mobile includes the subscribers name using "FIRST_NAME" and "LAST_NAME"

Doing all this on mozilla.com

If you're building a registration form on mozilla.com, many of the steps above are already built for you. There is a library for POSTing to Responsys, and some classes that hopefully make building forms easier. Also, the _ri_ config is handled in mozilla.com's config file. Most of the work falls into building the actual form HTML and any validation rules. The about:mozilla, about:mobile, and mainstream newsletters are all good examples you should work from.