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title: "Setting up the Pardot connector in Opensense (classic UI)"
slug: "setting-up-pardot-opensense-side"
description: "Classic UI: set up the Pardot connector in Opensense with your Pardot API User Key, test it with a contact, and add the connector to your signature."
updated: 2024-01-16T22:19:28.000Z
canonical: "https://help.opensense.com/docs/setting-up-pardot-opensense-side"
---

> ## Documentation Index
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# Setting up the Pardot connector in Opensense (classic UI)

:::note[Classic UI]
This article covers the classic Opensense UI.
:::

## Overview

Set up the Pardot connector in Opensense, test that Opensense and Pardot (now Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement) can communicate, and then add the connector to your signature. Before you start, [add the Opensense fields in Pardot](https://help.opensense.com/docs/adding-opensense-fields-in-pardot).


## Setting up the Opensense connector

1. Get this information from the Pardot admin account (see the screenshot): the **Username**, **Password**, and **API User Key**.

   ![The Pardot account My Profile tab, with the user's Role (Administrator) and API User Key highlighted](https://help.opensense.com/media/opensensepardot1-7dcef05b6658.png)

2. Sign in to [the Opensense portal](https://portal.sendergen.com/app3.php). In the **Marketing** menu, select **Connectors**.

   <img src="https://help.opensense.com/media/opensensepardot2-bd3e16188c8c.png" alt="The classic Marketing menu, with Connectors at the bottom" width="533" height="221" loading="lazy" decoding="async">

3. Under **Parameters** (see the screenshot), enter the admin's email address, password, and API User Key.

   ![The Pardot connector with Pardot selected, the email, password, userkey, and testrecipient parameters, and the Default Text field](https://help.opensense.com/media/opensensepardot3-13b220a7403e.png)

4. Optional: use **Default Text** to set a placeholder banner for all non-targeted recipients.
5. When the configuration looks like the screenshot above, select the green check button <img class="kb-inline-icon" src="https://help.opensense.com/media/opensensepardot4-a460e2b2b7f3.png" alt="(green check)" width="23" height="19">.


## Testing communication between Pardot and Opensense

1. In an existing Pardot contact profile (you can use yours), select **Edit**.
2. Scroll down, and select **+ Custom Fields**.
3. Type `banner_name` in the **sgenads** and **sgentags** fields.

   ![The Custom Fields section of a Pardot contact, with banner_name in the sgenads field](https://help.opensense.com/media/opensensepardot7-acdfaf2647b5.png)

4. Give your Opensense representative (or the [help desk](mailto:help@opensense.com)) the email address of the Pardot contact who has `banner_name` in one of their custom Opensense fields. We'll confirm that the connection works properly.


## Adding the connector to your signature

1. In the **Marketing** menu, select **Connectors**.

   <img src="https://help.opensense.com/media/opensensepardot8-a71bda73c947.png" alt="The classic Marketing menu, with Connectors at the bottom" width="533" height="221" loading="lazy" decoding="async">

2. Copy the Pardot connector name, by selecting the copy button <img class="kb-inline-icon" src="https://help.opensense.com/media/opensensepardot9-38d2d8e5ca43.png" alt="(copy)" width="19" height="16">.
3. In the **Signatures** menu, select **Designer Studio**.

   <img src="https://help.opensense.com/media/opensensepardot10-42c8a064e700.png" alt="The classic Signatures menu, with Designer Studio highlighted" width="607" height="296" loading="lazy" decoding="async">

4. Select **Edit** on your signature.
5. Paste the connector name into the HTML template (in the screenshot, `[[plugin:pardot]]` at the end of the template).

   ![The signature editor, with the connector [[plugin:pardot]] at the end of the HTML template](https://help.opensense.com/media/opensensepardot12-8dd963e275a6.png)

6. Select **Save**.

## What's next

- [Adding Opensense fields in Pardot](https://help.opensense.com/docs/adding-opensense-fields-in-pardot)
- [Targeting with CRM or marketing automation platforms](https://help.opensense.com/docs/targeting-with-crm-or-marketing-automation-platforms)