SAP Marketing Cloud – Unable to delete emails and email templates in Content Studio

Symptom

You want to delete old emails that are not used anymore

Environment

SAP Marketing Cloud – SAP Marketing Cloud

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to Content Studio App
  2. Click on show  “All Content” on the top right-hand
  3. Search old emails or e-mail templates

Resolution

1. In general all released emails or e-mail templates cannot be deleted, However there is a work-around for current editor.

2. Released content that was not used in a campaign can be set back to “In Preparation” status by opening it in the editor and pressing “Edit”. After that it can be deleted in the editor or the worklist.

  • The old e-mail\template can now be deleted while the mail status has changed back to the “in preparation” status.

3. It is not possible to delete released e-mail\templates in the new ‘Lite editor’, because the feature to go back into the status “in preparation” is not yet supported.

  • The only available solution would be to set the undesirable e-mail to “Outdated” status, this simply means that the e-mail is obsolete.
  • You can create a filter to filtered out (exclude filter) the outdated e-mail if you do not want to see them.

Note: Restricted Users may not have the authority to edit or delete e-mail templates.

Hybris Marketing Content Studio: Not able to create Email Templates, Emails, Confirmations and Text Messages

The Hybris Marketing Content Studio does allow to create Landing Pages only but no Emails, Confirmations, Email Templates and Text Messages.

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Log on to Fiori Launchpad in Hybris Marketing or S/4 Hana Marketing Cloud environment.
  2. Open the Content Studio App.
  3. There is Landing Pages Content available but no Emails, Confirmations, Email Templates, nor Text Messages.
  4. Creating new Content does allow to created Langing Pages only. There is no option to create Emails, Confirmations, Email Templates, nor Text Messages.

Cause

There is some Campaign Communications related Configuration missing. Emails and Text Messages require a Sender Profile to be sent out – if there is no Sender Profile available in the System the option to create Email Content and Text Messages is not available.

Resolution

SAP Hybris Marketing On-Premise Installation:

  1. Maintain connection to the Email or Text Message Provider in the Provider Configuration using the following Customizing path:
    SAP Hybris Marketing >
    Campaigns >
    Campaign >
    Define Provider Configuration
  2. Create a Sender Profile for the Provider Configuration using the following Customizing path:
    SAP Hybris Marketing >
    Campaigns >
    Campaign >
    Define Sender Profile

For testing the configuration there is the check report CUAN_MKT_EXEC_CHECK_CONFIG available. Further information about the test report and how to handle the check result is available with the following SAP note: 2375193 – Errorhandling of campaign execution issues

S/4HANA Marketing Cloud:

  1. Create Communication Arrangement for the predefined Campaign Execution Scenario for the relevant for the predefined Email or Text Message Provider. This is done in the Communication Arrangements App available in the Communication Management.


    The following Communication Scenarios are available in the standard Content:

    SAP_COM_0016  Marketing – Campaign Execution Amazon SES Integration (together with SAP_COM_0039  Marketing – Campaign Execution Amazon E-Mail Bounce Integration)
    SAP_COM_0040  Marketing – Campaign Execution SAP Mobile Services Email Integration
    SAP_COM_0041  Marketing – Campaign Execution SAP Mobile Services SMS Integration

  2. Maintain the Access Key in the Provider Credentials for the Email and Text Message Service Provider and Maintain the Sender Profiles using the Provider Credentials App and the Sender Profiles App available in the Segmentation and Campaign Configuration.