Delete Campaigns and Templates API

Deleting Sent Campaigns

By default, only unsent campaigns and templates can be deleted.

In order to delete sent campaigns using this API, you must run this command as root from the command line on your GreenArrow server. This is available only for on-premises customers.

echo "UPDATE s_system_configs SET enable_api_delete_campaigns = 'true'" | /var/hvmail/postgres/default/bin/psql -U greenarrow greenarrow

Deleting Campaigns

DELETE /ga/api/v2/campaigns/{campaign_id}

The campaign and associated records will be removed from the database when the response is returned. The only remaining record will be a stub containing the campaign’s name, allowing old references to it to show “Campaign Name (deleted)” in the user interface.

The campaign may not be deleted if it is “in use”. A campaign is “in use” if:

• It is referenced by a named segment
• It is referenced by the ad-hoc segment of a campaign that has not yet been canceled or finished sending
• It is referenced by the ad-hoc segment of an autoresponder
• It is referenced by the ad-hoc segment of a subscriber export that has not yet been canceled or completed

A deleted campaign may be referenced by (and thus visible by looking at):

• The ad-hoc segment of a completed or canceled campaign that used it
• The ad-hoc segment of a completed or canceled subscriber export that used it

The organization is not updated to remove the deleted campaign’s statistics. Even though the campaign has been deleted, its impact on the organization’s stats remains.

Response

Example

> DELETE /ga/api/v2/campaigns/4 HTTP/1.1
> Authorization: Basic MToxNmRjYjllYmM1MzE1M2Q3YWViOTQ3YmE0MGE3NDVkMzc4N2ViYWJj
> Accept: application/json
> Content-Type: application/json

< Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "campaign": {
      "id": 4,
      "name": "Daily News"
    }
  },
  "error_code": null,
  "error_message": null
}

Deleting Templates

The API for deleting templates has a different endpoint than the API for deleting campaigns, but otherwise is the same:

DELETE /ga/api/v2/templates/{template_id}