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Connect to Eloqua

Let's configure the Eloqua Bulk API connection properties to connect to Eloqua.

Before you begin

Before you configure the connection properties, you'll need to get information from your Oracle Eloqua account. You can configure basic and OAuth authentication types to access Oracle Eloqua.
To use basic authentication, you need your Oracle Eloqua base URL, domain name, user name, and password.
To use OAuth authentication, you additionally need the the client ID and client secret for your application.
For more information on how to generate these details, see the Oracle Eloqua documentation.
You can watch the following video to learn where to get the information you need:
https://infa.media/3CwMi1D

Connection details

The following table describes the basic connection properties:
Property
Description
Connection Name
Name of the connection.
Each connection name must be unique within the organization. Connection names can contain alphanumeric characters, spaces, and the following special characters: _ . + -,
Maximum length is 255 characters.
Description
Description of the connection. Maximum length is 4000 characters.
Type
Eloqua Bulk API
Runtime Environment
The name of the runtime environment where you want to run the tasks.
Select a Secure Agent, Hosted Agent, or serverless runtime environment.
Base URL
The base URL to connect to the Eloqua application.
Use one of the following formats to specify the base URL:
  • - https://secure.eloqua.com
  • - https://<host>.eloqua.com/api/bulk/<version number>
For the host, you can enter secure, www02.secure, or secure.p03 based on the pod that hosts the Eloqua instance.
In the https://<host>.eloqua.com/api/bulk/2.0 URL, 2.0 represents the version number. When you do not mention the version number in the base URL, the Secure Agent considers the default version.
For more information about the base URL to connect to the Eloqua application, see Determining Base URL.
Authentication Type
The type of user authentication to connect to the Eloqua application.
Domain Name
The company name of your Eloqua application.
User name
The user name of your Eloqua account.
Password
The password for your Eloqua account.
Client ID
The client ID to complete the OAuth 2.0 authentication to connect to Eloqua. Applies if you select the OAuth 2.0 authentication type.
Client Secret
The client secret key to complete the OAuth 2.0 authentication to connect to Eloqua. Applies if you select the OAuth 2.0 authentication type.

Advanced settings

The following table describes the advanced connection properties:
Property
Description
Time Zone Offset
The time zone in the Eloqua application relative to GMT.
For more information, see Understanding the time zone offset
Enable Debug Logger
Determines if the debug logger registers the SOAP request and response in the session log.
If you enable the debug logger in the connection and run a task, you can view only the response but not the request in the session logs for the read operation. For the write operation, the request appears in the session log, but the response does not appear in the session logs.
Default is enabled.
Fetch Data for Preview
Fetches the first 10 rows of the first five columns in an Eloqua Bulk API object for preview.
Default is enabled.
Activities or Custom Fields Configuration
The Activities object and custom fields of Contact and Account objects in Eloqua that you want to read from or write.
Use the metadata populated in this field to read from or write to the Activities object and custom fields of Contact and Account objects. If you want to include other fields or metadata, ensure that you add them in the JSON format, beginning with an anonymous root structure.
For example, { "address" : { "city": "city name", "state": "state name", }}
For more information, see Activities or custom fields configuration.
For more information about including fields in the custom objects that are not included in the fields API, see the Adding fields which are not part of fields API to the custom objects topic.

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