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Activate audiences to streaming profile export destinations

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Overview overview

This article explains the workflow required to activate audience data in Adobe Experience Platform to streaming profile-based destinations (also referred to as enterprise destinations).

This article applies to the following three destinations:

Prerequisites prerequisites

To activate data to destinations, you must have successfully connected to a destination. If you haven’t done so already, go to the destinations catalog, browse the supported destinations, and configure the destination that you want to use.

Select your destination select-destination

  1. Go to Connections > Destinations, select the Catalog tab, then select Activate audiences on the card corresponding to the destination where you want to activate your audiences.

    Destination Catalog tab with the Activate audiences control highlighted on a destination card. {modal="regular"}

  2. (Optional) Use the search box to find a destination connection by name, or use the filters to narrow down the results based on your preferred criteria. Select Hide filters to collapse the filters panel.

  3. Select the checkbox next to the destination connection that you want to use to activate your audiences, then select Next.

    Search box and filters panel highlighted above the list of destination connections, with a destination connection selected in the Select destination step. {modal="regular"}

  4. Move to the next section to select your audiences.

Select your audiences select-audiences

To select the audiences that you want to activate to the destination, use the checkboxes to the left of the audience names, then select Next.

Use the search box to find an audience by name, or use the filters to narrow down the results by evaluation type (edge, streaming, or batch), namespace origin, or tags. Select Hide filters to collapse the filters panel.

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You can filter by the same tags you use on the audience browse screen. Any tags you added to an audience there carry over to this screen.

Search box and filters panel highlighted above the list of audiences, with the checkbox for one audience selected and the Next button highlighted. {modal="regular"}

You can select from multiple types of audiences, depending on their origin:

  • Segmentation Service: Audiences generated within Experience Platform by the Segmentation Service. See the Audience Portal documentation for more details.
  • Custom upload: Audiences generated outside of Experience Platform, and uploaded into Experience Platform as CSV files. To learn more about external audiences, see the documentation on importing an audience.
  • Other types of audiences, originating from other Adobe solutions, such as Audience Manager.

Select profile attributes select-attributes

In the Mapping step, select the profile attributes that you want to send to the target destination.

  1. In the Select attributes page, select Add new field.

    Add new field control highlighted above the existing field mappings. {modal="regular"}

  2. Select the arrow to the right of the Schema field entry.

    Select source field arrow highlighted next to an empty schema field entry. {modal="regular"}

  3. In the Select source field page, select the Select attributes option, select the XDM attributes that you want to send to the destination, then choose Save.

    Use the search box to filter the source fields. Search matches partial, case-insensitive text.

    Use the Show only fields with data toggle to only display schema fields populated with values. By default, only populated schema fields are shown.

    Use the Show display names for fields toggle to display the friendly names for fields, instead of the schema field names.

    Select source field page showing the search box, the display toggles, and a selected source field. {modal="regular"}

  4. To add more fields, repeat steps 1 to 3, then select Next.

Review review

On the Review page, you can see a summary of your selection. Select Cancel to break up the flow, Back to modify your settings, or Finish to confirm your selection and start sending data to the destination.

Connection and Setup and audience summary cards in the review step. {modal="regular"}

Consent policy evaluation is currently not supported in exports to the three enterprise destinations - Amazon Kinesis, Azure Event Hubs, and HTTP API.

This means that profiles which have not consented to being targeted are included in the exports to these three destinations.

Data usage policy checks data-usage-policy-checks

In the Review step, Experience Platform also checks for any data usage policy violations. Shown below is an example where a policy is violated. You cannot complete the audience activation workflow until you have resolved the violation. For information on how to resolve policy violations, read about data usage policy violations in the data governance documentation section.

An example of a data policy violation shown in the activation workflow.

Filter audiences filter-audiences

By default, New audiences is selected, showing only the audiences you selected in the current activation flow. Select Activated audiences to see the audiences already activated to this destination from previous activation flows. Select the Toggle columns icon to choose which table columns you want to see.

New audiences and Activated audiences toggle and the Toggle columns icon highlighted above the audience table in the review step. {modal="regular"}

If you are satisfied with your selection and no policy violations have been detected, select Finish to confirm your selection and start sending data to the destination.

Verify audience activation verify

Your exported Experience Platform data lands in your target destination in JSON format. For example, the event below contains the email address attribute of a profile that has qualified for a certain audience and exited another audience. The identities for this prospect are ECID and email_lc_sha256.

{
  "person": {
    "email": "yourstruly@adobe.com"
  },
  "segmentMembership": {
    "ups": {
      "7841ba61-23c1-4bb3-a495-00d3g5fe1e93": {
        "lastQualificationTime": "2020-05-25T21:24:39Z",
        "status": "exited"
      },
      "59bd2fkd-3c48-4b18-bf56-4f5c5e6967ae": {
        "lastQualificationTime": "2020-05-25T23:37:33Z",
        "status": "realized"
      }
    }
  },
  "identityMap": {
    "ecid": [
      {
        "id": "14575006536349286404619648085736425115"
      },
      {
        "id": "66478888669296734530114754794777368480"
      }
    ],
    "email_lc_sha256": [
      {
        "id": "655332b5fa2aea4498bf7a290cff017cb4"
      },
      {
        "id": "66baf76ef9de8b42df8903f00e0e3dc0b7"
      }
    ]
  }
}
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