Destinations workspace

In Adobe Experience Platform, select Destinations from the left navigation bar to access the Destinations workspace.

The Destinations workspace consists of five sections, Overview, Catalog, Browse, Accounts, and System View, described in the sections below.

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Overview

The Overview tab displays the Destinations dashboard, providing key metrics related your organization’s destination data. To learn more, visit the Destinations dashboard guide.

NOTE

If your organization is new to Experience Platform and does not yet have active destinations, the Destinations dashboard and Overview tab are not visible. Instead, selecting Destinations from the left navigation displays the Catalog tab.

Catalog

The Catalog tab displays a list of all destinations available in Platform, that you can send data to.

The Platform user interface provides several search and filter options on the destinations catalog page:

  • Use the search functionality on the page to locate a specific destination.
  • Filter destinations using the Categories control.
  • Toggle between All destinations and My destinations. When you select All destinations, all available Platform destinations are displayed. When you select My destinations, you can only see the destinations with which you have established a connection.
  • Select to view Connections and/or Extensions. To understand the difference between the two categories, see Destination Types and Categories.

Catalog

The destination cards contain either a Set up or an Activate segments control, and a secondary control that brings up more options. These controls are described below:

Control Description
Set up Allows you to create a connection to the destination.
Activate segments Once you have established a connection to the destination, you can activate segments.
View account View the accounts you have connected for a destination.
View dataflows View the data activation flows that exist for a destination.
View documentation Opens a link to the documentation page for that specific destination, for more information and to help you set it up.

Controls on the destinations card

Select a destination card in the catalog to open the right rail. Here, you can see a description of the destination. The right rail provides the same controls described in the table above, including a description of the destination, and an indication of the destination category and type.

Destination catalog options

For more information on destination categories and information on each destination, see the Destination catalog and Destination types and categories.

Accounts

The Accounts tab shows you details about the connections that you have established with various destinations, and allows you to update or delete existing account details. See the table below for all the information you can get on each destination account.

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  • Select the three dots in the Platform column and use the Activate segments buttonActivate segments button to send segments to that destination.
  • Select the three dots in the Platform column and use the Edit details buttonEdit details button to update the details of an existing destination account.
  • Select the three dots in the Platform column and use the Delete buttonDelete button to delete an existing destination account.

Accounts tab

Element Description
Platform The destination for which you have set up the connection.
Connection Type Represents the account connection type to your storage bucket or destination. Depending on the destination, authentication options are:
  • For email marketing destinations: Can be S3, FTP, or Azure Blob.
  • For real-time advertising destinations: Server-to-server
  • For Amazon S3 cloud storage destinations: Access Key
  • For SFTP cloud storage destinations: Basic authentication for SFTP
  • OAuth 1 or OAuth 2 authentication
  • Bearer token authentication
Username The username you selected in the connect destination wizard.
Destinations Represents the number of unique successful destination dataflows connected with basic information created for a destination.
Authorized The date when the connection to this destination was authorized.

Browse

The Browse tab displays the destinations with which you have established a connection. Destinations with the Enabled/Disabled toggle turned on set the destination to active or inactive, respectively. You can also view the destinations where you have data flowing by selecting Segments > Browse and selecting a segment to inspect. See the table below for all the information that is provided for each destination in the Browse tab:

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  • Select the three dots in the Name column and use the Activate segments buttonActivate segments button to send segments to that destination.
  • Select the three dots in the Name column and use the Delete buttonDelete button to remove an existing connection to a destination.
  • Select the three dots in the Name column and use the View in monitoring buttonView in monitoring button to view activation information for this destination in the monitoring dashboard.
  • Select the three dots in the Name column and use the Subscribe to alerts Subscribe to alerts button to subscribe to destination dataflow alerts. You can subscribe to alerts to receive messages regarding the status, success, or failure of your flow run. See Subscribe to in-context destination alerts for detailed information on destination dataflow alerts…

Browse Tab

Element Description
Name The name you provided for your activation flow to this destination. The same column includes two controls: Activate and Delete destination.
Last Flow Run Status The status of the last dataflow run. See View destination details for more information about dataflow runs.
Last Flow Run Date Time and date when the last dataflow run has occurred. See View destination details for more information about dataflow runs.
Destination The destination platform that you selected for your activation flow.
Connection Type Represents the connection type to your storage bucket or destination.
  • For email marketing destinations: Can be S3, FTP, or Azure Blob.
  • For real-time advertising destinations: Server-to-server.
  • For streaming destinations: Can be Azure Event Hubs or Amazon Kinesis.
Username The account credentials you selected for the destination flow.
Activation Data Indicates the number of segments that are being activated to this destination. Select this control to find out more about the activated segments. Refer to Activation Data in the destination details page for more information about the activated segments.
Created The date and UTC time when the activation flow to the destination was created. Select the up/down arrow symbol to sort the activation flows by newest first or oldest first.
Status Enabled or Disabled. Indicates whether data is being activated to this destination.

Click on a destination row to bring up more information about the destination in the right rail.

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Select the destination name to see information about the segments activated to this destination. Click Edit activation to modify or add to the segments that are being sent to this destination.

System View

The System View tab displays a graphic representation of the activation flows that you have set up in the Adobe Experience Platform.

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Select any of the destinations displayed on the page and click View dataflows to see information on all the connections you have set up for each destination.

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