Using data lookups
Data lookups allow you to retrieve contact, visitor, or custom object data. Implementing a data lookup on your website allows you to personalize web pages with contact or visitor information.
Using web data look ups, you can do the following:
- Display different web pages based on visitor profile data
- Display a specific web page to contacts belonging to an email group
- Allow entry to a portion of your site to known contacts
- Pre-populate a form
To implement a data lookup, you will need the following:
- In Oracle Eloqua, create a new data lookup. You will need the Data Lookup Key call the web data lookup.
- Ensure Oracle Eloqua tracking scripts are implemented on your web page.
Tip: To help implement a data lookup, use the sample code generated by Oracle Eloqua. To view the sample code, open the data lookup and click Data Lookup Options > Get Data Lookup Scripts. Learn more about creating a data lookup.
Writing contact data to a web page
The following describes writing contact data retrieved from a contact data lookup to a web page.
A div is placed on the page and will be populated with the contact details returned by the data lookup.
<div id="contactinfo">
<!-- contact info will be added here -->
</div>
A JavaScript function dynamically creates paragraph elements with the retrieved data and places them in the div above.
function CreateRow(label, value) {
var p = document.createElement('p');
var b = document.createElement('b');
p.appendChild(b);
b.appendChild(document.createTextNode(label));
p.appendChild(document.createTextNode(value));
document.getElementById('contactinfo').appendChild(p);
}
A callback function SetElqContent is used to return the data from the lookup. The function name is important and must be called SetElqContent. The data that is returned depends on how the data lookup was set up. In the following example, contact data is returned.
function SetElqContent() {
CreateRow('Contact Info: ', GetElqContentPersonalizationValue(''));
CreateRow('First Name: ', GetElqContentPersonalizationValue('C_FirstName'));
CreateRow('Last Name: ', GetElqContentPersonalizationValue('C_LastName'));
CreateRow('Email Address: ',GetElqContentPersonalizationValue('C_EmailAddress'));
CreateRow('Salesperson: ', GetElqContentPersonalizationValue('C_Salesperson'));
CreateRow('Company: ', GetElqContentPersonalizationValue('C_Company'));
CreateRow('Address 1: ', GetElqContentPersonalizationValue('C_Address1'));
CreateRow('City: ', GetElqContentPersonalizationValue('C_City'));
CreateRow('State or Province: ',GetElqContentPersonalizationValue('C_State_Prov'));
CreateRow('Zip or Postal Code: ',GetElqContentPersonalizationValue('C_Zip_Postal'));
CreateRow('Business Phone: ', GetElqContentPersonalizationValue('C_BusPhone'));
CreateRow('Country: ', GetElqContentPersonalizationValue('C_Country'));
CreateRow('Industry: ', GetElqContentPersonalizationValue('M_Industry1'));
CreateRow('Revenue: ', GetElqContentPersonalizationValue('M_Revenue1'));
CreateRow('Website: ', GetElqContentPersonalizationValue('M_WebSite1'));
CreateRow('Date Created: ',GetElqContentPersonalizationValue('M_DateCreated'));
}
The _elqQ.push() is called that requests the data lookup from the Oracle Eloqua servers.
_elqQ.push(['elqDataLookup', escape('<Data_Lookup_Key>'), '<Data_Lookup_Criteria>']);
Data_Lookup_Key is a global unique identifier (GUID) that is generated when you create the data lookup. You can retrieve it by opening up the web data lookup in Oracle Eloqua. The Data_Lookup_Criteria (if required) is the criteria you set up to identify the contact or visitor. For example, email address <C_EmailAddress>user@example.com</C_EmailAddress>. Learn more about creating a data lookup.
Trying it all together, we get the following:
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
var _elqQ = _elqQ || [];
_elqQ.push(['elqSetSiteId', '123']);
_elqQ.push(['elqTrackPageView']);
(function () {
function async_load() {
var s = document.createElement('script'); s.type = 'text/javascript'; s.async = true;
s.src = '//img.en25.com/i/elqCfg.min.js';
var x = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; x.parentNode.insertBefore(s, x);
}
if (window.attachEvent) { window.attachEvent('onload', async_load); }
else { window.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', async_load, false); }
})();
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
function CreateRow(label, value) {
var p = document.createElement('p');
var b = document.createElement('b');
var label = document.createTextNode(label);
var value = document.createTextNode(value);
p.appendChild(b);
b.appendChild(label);
p.appendChild(value);
document.getElementById('contactinfo').appendChild(p);
}
function SetElqContent() {
CreateRow('Contact Info: ', GetElqContentPersonalizationValue(''));
CreateRow('First Name: ', GetElqContentPersonalizationValue('C_FirstName'));
CreateRow('Last Name: ', GetElqContentPersonalizationValue('C_LastName'));
CreateRow('Email Address: ', GetElqContentPersonalizationValue('C_EmailAddress'));
CreateRow('Salesperson: ', GetElqContentPersonalizationValue('C_Salesperson'));
CreateRow('Company: ', GetElqContentPersonalizationValue('C_Company'));
CreateRow('Address 1: ', GetElqContentPersonalizationValue('C_Address1'));
CreateRow('City: ', GetElqContentPersonalizationValue('C_City'));
CreateRow('State or Province: ', GetElqContentPersonalizationValue('C_State_Prov'));
CreateRow('Zip or Postal Code: ', GetElqContentPersonalizationValue('C_Zip_Postal'));
CreateRow('Business Phone: ', GetElqContentPersonalizationValue('C_BusPhone'));
CreateRow('Country: ', GetElqContentPersonalizationValue('C_Country'));
CreateRow('Industry: ', GetElqContentPersonalizationValue('M_Industry1'));
CreateRow('Revenue: ', GetElqContentPersonalizationValue('M_Revenue1'));
CreateRow('Website: ', GetElqContentPersonalizationValue('M_WebSite1'));
CreateRow('Date Created: ', GetElqContentPersonalizationValue('M_DateCreated'));
}
_elqQ.push(['elqDataLookup', escape('434C5E6250C04FCBB0D4FC5413F9A40A'), '
<C_EmailAddress>user@example.com</C_EmailAddress>']);
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="contactinfo">
</div>
</body>
</html>