Documentation changes

This page lists significant changes made to the Adobe Target product documentation.

Target Standard/Premium 22.15.1 (March 8 & 9, 2023)

Date Topic Changes
March 8 A4T support for Auto-Allocate and Auto-Target activities Updated section to include information about the supported (and unsupported) metrics for Auto-Allocate and Auto-Target activities using Analytics for Target (A4T)
Adobe Target Tutorials Added the following new tutorials:
Edit an activity or save as draft Added a “Best practices” section.
Modifications Added the following note to the “Troubleshooting custom code” section:
  • Custom Code offers in the VEC are not re-rendered when triggerView() is called with {page: false} as the option.
Target release notes (current) Added information about the at.js 2.10.2 release.
Target release notes (current) Added release notes for the Target Standard/Premium 22.15.1 release.

Target Standard/Premium 22.13.3 (January 25, 2023)

Date Topic Changes
February 23 Migrate Target from at.js 2.x to Platform Web SDK Added new tutorial.
February 21 Allowlist Target edge nodes Updated list of IP addresses to allowlist for all regions in the Adobe Target Developer Guide.
Modifications Added text explaining that the example using JQuery assumes that the customer’s website has jQuery available on the page when Target executes the offers.
February 10 Target release notes (current) Added release notes for the Target Standard/Premium 22.14.5 release.
February 8 Target release notes (current) Added release notes for at.js 2.10.1.
February 2 Troubleshooting issues related to the Visual Experience Composer Updated the following section:
  • The VEC appears broken when I use browse mode
Build audiences in Target Added list of characters and character sequences that cannot be used in audience names.
January 31 Limits Added list of allowed and disallowed characters in mbox names.
January 25 Create JSON offers Indicated that support for JSON offers in Automated Personalization (AP) activities using the Form-Based Experience Composer is now available.
Adobe Target announcements and events Added information about the following event:
  • Adobe Target Community Q&A Coffee Break: Mobile & Authenticated Use Cases for Experience Optimization
Target release notes (current) Added release notes for the Target Standard/Premium 22.13.3 release.

Adobe Target Standard/Premium 22.10.1 (staggered release October 10-13, 2022)

Date Topic Changes
January 13 Visual Editing Helper extension Added a Frequently Asked Questions section.
January 12 Visual Experience Composer helper extension Updated Important note explaining the status of the current Visual Experience Composer helper extension.
Targets and audiences FAQ Added information explaining that audience URL targeting and URL targeting added via Template Rules are evaluated as URL targeting.
Target release notes (prerelease) Added prerelease notes for the 22.13.3 release.
December 21 Customize a design using Velocity Clarified that entity attributes sent to Recommendations in the productPage mbox or the CSV upload can be displayed in a design, with the exception of “multi-value” attributes.
December 20 Offer reporting groups in Automated Personalization Added additional information about reporting groups under “Caveats.”
December 14 Report settings Added note under the “Environment” section about using Adobe Experience Platform (AEP) to send metric data to Target.
November 29 Geo Clarified text by adding the following paragraph:
  • A visitor’s geo information is determined from the originating IP address of a Target location request (mbox request). The IP-to-geo resolution is done for the first call of a new session. This means, if the IP address of a visitor changes mid session of a visit, the geo information is still based on the IP address of the first call.
November 28 Models API (Blocklisting) Overview in the Adobe Target Developer Guide. New Models API.
Features can be blocked from Target machine-learning algorithms, preventing them from being used in any Auto-Target or Automated Personalization model or activity.
Target release notes (current) Added information about the Models API release (November 23, 2022).
November 23 Before you implement Analytics for Target (A4T) with at.js Updated the link to the Marketing Cloud Integrations Provisioning Form.
November 16 Adobe Target announcements and events Added registration information for the following event:
  • Adobe Target Community Q&A coffee break (November 29)
November 8 How long should you run an A/B Test? Added important note that to get accurate results you must reload the page before changing any parameter numbers in the Adobe Target Sample Size Calculator. Also added a note in the actual calculator.
Redirect offers - A4T FAQ Updated the description for the adobe_mc_sdid parameter in the table.
Troubleshooting activities Added new section: “After activity conversion, the visitor is not in any experience.”
Custom parameters Added note that the mbox you select from the Filter By drop-down list is not saved on activity creation. This option lets you filter the parameters based on the selected mbox.
November 2 Known issues and resolved issues Removed page and relocated relevant issues to the appropriate pages so that information will be in context.
October 25 Target release notes (current) Added release notes for the Target Standard/Premium 22.10.3 release.
October 19 Category affinity Added a note explaining scoring when several categories are are passed within a single mbox call.
October 18 Create an Automated Personalization activity Updated text to indicate that although you can create up to 30,000 experiences in an AP test, the algorithm performs its best when fewer than 10,000 distinct experiences are used. This same limit is applied even when the activity has enabled the Dissalow Duplicates option.
Automated Personalization FAQs Updated text to indicate that although you can create up to 30,000 experiences in an AP test, the algorithm performs its best when fewer than 10,000 distinct experiences are used. This same limit is applied even when the activity has enabled the Dissalow Duplicates option.
October 14 Adobe Target announcements and events Added registration information about the Adobe Target Community Q&A Coffee Break (October 26, 2022).
October 10 Visual Editing Helper extension New article.
Troubleshooting issues related to the Visual Experience Composer Updated the “My page does not display in the VEC (VEC only)” section.
October 4 Statistical calculations in A/Bn tests New topic.
The information in this article replaces the Adobe Target Calculations for A/B Testing pdf file that was previously available for download on this site.
Target release notes (current) Added release notes for the Target Standard/Premium 22.10.1 release.

Adobe Target Standard/Premium 22.9.1 (staggered release September 13-15, 2022)

Date Topic Changes
October 3 Target release notes (prerelease) Updated the dates for the Target Standard/Premium 22.10.1 release.
September 22 Adobe Target announcements and events Added information about the following event:
  • Adobe Target Community Q&A coffee break (September 28, 2022)
September 15 Adobe Target announcements and events Added information about the following webinar:
  • Fine-Tuning AI-Powered Personalization: New Features in Adobe Target (October 11, 2022)
September 13 Understand the Target UI Added information about notifications when a Recommendations feed fails.
Target release notes (current) Added release notes for the Target Standard/Premium 22.9.1 release.

Adobe Target Standard/Premium 22.8.1 (staggered release: August 17-18, 2022)

Date Topic Changes
August 22 Adobe Target announcements and events Added the information about the following announcement:
  • Target named leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Personalization Engines (2022)
Added information about the following upcoming events:
  • Adobe Target Community Q&A coffee break (August 31, 2022)
  • Chef’s Collection: Recipes for Personalization (August 30, 2022)
  • Adobe Target Skill Builders – Mobile Experience Optimization (September 6, 2022)
  • Adobe Target Skill Builders – AI-Driven Personalization and Recommendations (September 15, 2022)
Added recording link for the following past webinar session:
  • Adobe: Personalization Industry Insider - Retail (August 11, 2022)
August 22 Target release notes (current) Added release notes for the Target Standard/Premium 22.8.1 release.

Adobe Target Standard/Premium 22.6.1 (staggered release: June 7-9, 2022)

Date Topic Changes
June 30 Adobe Target Developer Guide Launched the Adobe Target Developer Guide to consolidate all Target developer content in one convenient portal. The portal includes information about implementing Target and Recommendations, Target SDKs, and Target APIs.
Target release notes (current) Added release notes for the Target Standard/Premium 22.6.2 release.
Target announcements and events Added recording links for past webinar sessions.
June 14 Plan and implement Recommendations Updated code samples in the following sections:
  • Cart adds/cart views/checkout pages
  • Exclude items already in the visitor’s cart
June 7 Target release notes (current) Added release notes for the Target Standard/Premium 22.6.1 release.

Adobe Target Standard/Premium 22.5.1 (staggered release; May 11-13, 2022)

Date Topic Changes
June 7 Target release notes (prerelease) Added prerelease information for the Target Standard/Premium 22.6.1 release.
May 31 Target announcements and events Added information about the upcoming Adobe Target Community Coffee Break (June 29, 2022)
May 25 Target release notes (current) Added information about the Target platform release (May 25, 2022) and the at.js 2.9.0 release (May 27, 2022).
at.js version details Added information about the at.js 2.9.0 release.
User-agent and Client Hints New topic.
Target announcements and events Added link for recording of the following webinar: Dick’s Sporting Goods: Personalization and the Changing Landscape in Retail (May 19, 2022)
May 23 Target release notes (prerelease) Added prerelease notes for at.js version 2.9.0 (May 25, 2022).
May 11 Target announcements and events Added information and registration links for the following webinars:
  • Dick’s Sporting Goods: Personalization and the Changing Landscape in Retail
  • Adobe: Personalization Industry Insider - Financial Services and Insurance
  • City National Bank: How to Achieve the Top 1% in Digital Optimization
  • Adobe: Personalization with Precision - Adobe Analytics and Target
  • City National Bank: Zero to Hero - Starting & Scaling a Personalization Program
  • Adobe: Uncover High-Impact Optimization Opportunities
  • Adobe: Personalization Industry Insider - Retail
Added the recording for the following webinar:
  • Real-Time Personalization with Adobe Target
Content Security Policy (CSP) directives Added FAQ section.
Target release notes (current) Added information about the Target Standard/Premium 22.5.1 and Target platform (May 11-13, 2022) releases.

Adobe Target Standard/Premium 22.4.1 (April 28)

Date Topic Changes
May 10 Target release notes (prerelease) Added prerelease information about the Target Standard/Premium 22.5.1 release.
April 28 Enterprise user permissions Added the following FAQ:
  • Can I move an audience from one workspace to another?
Auto-Allocate overview Added the following FAQs:
  • Can an Auto-Allocate activity adjust the lookback window over the course of a test to take into consideration changing trends over time?
  • Does Auto-Allocate show a winning experience to a returning visitor if the winning experience is different from what the visitor saw when qualifying for the activity?
Target release notes (current) Added information about the Target Standard/Premium 22.4.1 and Target platform (April 27, 2022) releases.

Adobe Target Standard/Premium 22.3.1 (April 5)

Date Topic Changes
April 26 Target announcements and events Added information for the following events:
  • Webinar: Real-Time Personalization with Adobe Target (April 28, 2022)
  • Adobe Target Community Q&A Coffee Break (May 25, 2022)
Redirect offers - A4T FAQ Added the following FAQ:
  • How can I minimize discrepancies in traffic distribution when using redirect offers in A4T activities?
AEM experience fragments Added following section:
  • Removing ClientLibs and extraneous HTML from Experience Fragments exported to Target
April 21 Target release notes (prerelease) Added prerelease information about the Target platform release scheduled for April 17, 2022.
April 20 Target release notes (prerelease) Added prerelease information about the Target Standard/Premium 22.4.1 release.
April 14 Visual Experience Composer options Added information to the Rearrange section to explain how to deal with inconsistent VEC behavior with the Move and Rearrange actions due to lazy loading of DOM elements.
April 13 Target announcements and events Added information about the following event:
  • Adobe Target Community Q&A Coffee Break (April 27, 2022)
Target release notes (current) Added release information about the Target Platform release.
April 4 Target release notes (current) Updated information about the Target Standard/Premium 22.3.1 release.

Adobe Target Standard/Premium 22.2.1 (February 1, 2022)

Date Topic Changes
March 30 Target release notes (current) Added release information about the Target Platform release.
March 28 Target release notes (prerelease) Added prerelease information about the Target Platform release.
March 22 Target release notes (current) Added release information about the Target Standard/Premium customer engineering fixes release.
Target release notes (prerelease) Added prerelease information about the Target Standard/Premium 22.3.1 release.
March 17 Target release notes (prerelease) Added prerelease information about the Target Standard/Premium customer engineering fixes release.
Real-time profile syncing for mbox3rdPartyId Updated following sentence regarding profile syncing: “Updates are synced with the profile store every 5-10 minutes.”
March 8 Target announcements and events Added information about the following event:
  • Adobe Target Community Q&A Coffee Break (March 30, 2022)
March 7 Create audiences Added new section under “Use audiences from Adobe Experience Platform:”
  • Personalization use cases
February 25 A4T support for Auto-Allocate and Auto-Target activities Updated the following sections:
Interpret Auto-Allocate reports Added new FAQ:
  • Are the “No Winner,” “Winner,” and “star” badges available for Auto-Allocate activities that use Analytics as the reporting source (A4T)?
Create an activity-only audience Added information in the “Considerations” section discussing exclude rules.
February 10 Visual Experience Composer helper extension Added information about loading websites with Service Workers in the Visual Experience Composer (VEC).
February 7 Target announcements and events Added information about the following event:
  • Adobe Target Community Q&A Coffee Break (February 23, 2022)
February 3 Create audiences Added new section and video: “Video: Next-hit personalization with Real-time CDP and Adobe Target.”
February 2 Troubleshoot content delivery Added following section: “Escaping double quotes in Target profile attribute value is not working as expected.”
February 1 Target release notes (current) Added information about the Target Standard/Premium 22.2.1 release.

Adobe Target Standard/Premium 22.1.1 (January 12, 2022)

Date Topic Changes
January 31 Target release notes (prerelease) Added prerelease information about the Target Standard/Premium 22.2.1 release.
January 28 Target release notes (current) Added information about the at.js 2.8.1 release.
at.js version details Added information about the at.js 2.8.1 release.
January 27 AEM experience fragments Updated topic and added information about AEM as a Cloud Service and Adobe I/0.
January 26 Target release notes (current) Added information about the Target Standard/Premium 22.1.2 release.
Create audiences Added information about Adobe Experience Platform audiences.
Combine multiple audiences Added information about Adobe Experience Platform audiences.
January 21 at.js version details Added information about the at.js 1.8.3 release.
January 19 Upgrading from at.js 1.x to at.js 2.x Added following section: “at.js 2.x does not support creating audiences using vst.* parameters”
January 12 Target release notes (current) Added information about the Target Standard/Premium 22.1.1 release.
Adobe Experience Platform Web SDK Added link to tutorial with instructions to implement Adobe Experience Cloud with Web SDK.

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