Creating custom resources - Introduction

Adobe Campaign comes with a pre-defined data model, where data is defined through different resources. Campaign provides the ability to extend resources or create brand new resources.

This multipart tutorial will walk you through the steps needed to create and link custom resources. At the end of this tutorial you will have learned how to:

Create a custom resource
Add fields to the custom resource
Link two custom resources
Configure screen definition

Pre requisite

In order to be able to create custom resources, you need to have administration user rights.

Tutorial Overview

We would like to be able to use additional information on what a customer ordered, so that it is available for marketing and re-marketing purposes.

For this we will enrich the Campaign data model by extending the out of the box resources and adding our own custom tables. We will add a customer and an orders table.

This tutorial will explain you step by step how to:

Step 1 - Creating a custom resource
Step 2 - Configuring a screen definition
Step 3 - Linking custom resources
Step 4 - Populating custom resources with data