How to enable "Groups" in a MailChimp email subscription form?

Need help
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I’m trying to create an email form that allows a user to submit additional info so I can put in the right email list. MailChimp has a feature that allows you to create “Groups” within an email list to customize your message to a group of similar users in the same list (instead of having to manage a dozen different lists).

Here’s my use case:

I want to ask a user when signing up…

What grade are you in? (one selection allowed - dropdown menu)

  • 9th
  • 10
  • 11th
  • 12th

Do you play any sports? (multi-selection allowed - checkboxes)

  • Basketball
  • Volleyball
  • Soccer

Is the “Groups” MailChimp feature accessible from Bubble via API? If not, is there a recommended workaround?

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It’s not accessible yet. If you need this, please reach out to us by email and we’ll look into it (support@bubble.is)

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Hi @emmanuel this is a feature that I’m also interested in, I need to put users in certain groups, do you have any workaround?

Thanks.

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Well the API connector can let you do this yourself now, you can add the calls to your app.

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Hi @emmanuel I already conected to the mailchimp API via GET request, because POST I get an error.

When I initialize the call I get the data, I click ok, but I cant use it in the workflows.

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As you can see in image num 3 I cant see any data to use, I even have it in action.

Any clues?

Here is the URL:
https://bubble.io/page?type=page&name=resultados&id=test-estilo-bc&tab=tabs-2

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You can use it, it’s just that all parameters are private, so they can’t be used in the property editor.

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Hi @emmanuel how can I use them if they are private? can you please elaborate?

Thanks

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@luismichelcf You want to do a POST, not a GET, since you’re adding someone to the list.

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Hi @Kfawcett Thanks for the response I’m kinda new to the API’s world, I don’t know why but I get an error when I do POST do you know any tut for this with mailchimp or any suggestions?

Thanks a lot

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Here are some screnshot and the error I get.

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I think your API key is wrong… it should end with the DC you are connected to. Since I am connected to Login | Mailchimp, the end of my API has “-us-14”

You should be able to find your API key at the following URL Login | Mailchimp, but the us14 would probably be us10 if the URL if have here is correct

They provide a place to browse and see the various calls. https://us1.api.mailchimp.com/playground/

They also provide API documentation. Here’s the specific page. http://developer.mailchimp.com/documentation/mailchimp/reference/lists/members/

So you’ll need three pieces of info when initially submitting a new member with their interests, which it looks like you have in the JSON body section.

Status
Email Address
Interests

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I found your API key in the MailChimp plugin and updated it.

There does seem to be an issue though. I am able to submit the same request in postman without an issue. I would submit a bug report to Bubble. https://bubble.io/bug_report

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Hi @Kfawcett thanks a lot for the help, yes, I was able to do the same with postma but had errors with bubble, did you already submit the bug?

Thanks a lot!

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I did not submit a bug. You might want to recheck to see if it’s been fixed. I think the Bubble team was performing some updates to the API connector.

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Hi!

I thought I’d check in to see if this was something that is currently being worked on… I would love to use it!

Thanks!
Jen