Compositions overview

AVAILABILITY
To access compositions, you’ll need one of the following permissions:
-Manage Federated Compositions
-View Federated Compositions
For more information on the required permissions, please read the access control guide.

Federated Audience Composition lets you create compositions, where you can leverage various activities into a visual canvas to create audiences. After creating your composition, the resulting audiences are saved into Adobe Experience Platform and can be leveraged in Experience Platform destinations and Adobe Journey Optimizer to target customers.

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Composition components components

A composition within Federated Audience Composition is made up of the following parts:

  • Activities: An activity is a task to be performed, and are represented within the composition by icons.
  • Transitions: Transitions link a source activity to a destination activity and define their sequence. The information contained in the transitions is stored within a work table. Each composition uses several worktables. The data conveyed in these tables can be used throughout the composition’s life cycle.

Access and manage compositions access

Compositions are accessible from the Adobe Experience Platform Audiences menu, in the Federated compositions tab within the Customers section.

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From this screen, you can view information about the compositions and create new compositions.

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Field
Description
Name
The name of the composition. If you select the composition, you can edit the composition. For more information on creating and editing compositions, read the create a composition guide.
Status

The status of the composition. Possible values include Draft, In progress, Stopped, Paused, and Erroneous.

  • Draft: The composition has been created and saved.
  • In progress: The composition has been executed and is currently running.
  • Stopped: The composition execution is complete and has stopped.
  • Paused: The composition execution has been paused.
  • Erroneous: The composition execution has encountered an error. To view more information about the error, open the composition and access the logs.

To learn how to start or stop a composition, read the create composition guide.

Created by
The name and email address of the person that created the composition.
Modified
The date and time the composition was last updated.

You can also perform quick actions to the compositions by selecting the ellipses button next to its name.

Action
Description
Duplicate
Duplicates the selected composition.
Delete
Deletes the selected composition.
Add to package
Moves the composition between sandboxes. For more information on this feature, read the sandbox tooling guide.

To refine the list and find the composition you are looking for, you can search the list, and filter compositions by their statuses or last processing dates.

You can also customize the list by adding or removing columns. To do this, select the Configure columns button and add or remove the desired output columns.

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Apply access labels access-labels

To apply access labels to a specific composition, select the composition, followed by Manage access.

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The Manage access popover appears. On this page, you can apply the applicable access and data governance labels to your composition.

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Label type
Description
Contract labels
Contract labels (“C” labels) are used to categorize data that has contractual obligations or is related to your organization’s data governance policies.
Identity labels
Identity labels (“I” labels) are used to categorize data that can identify or contact a specific person.
Sensitive labels
Sensitive labels (“S” labels) are used to categorize you and/or your organization consider sensitive.
Partner Ecosystem labels
Partner Ecosystem labels are used to categorize data from sources external to your organization.

For more information about access and data governance labels, please read the data usage label glossary.

Create create

You can create a composition for Adobe Experience Platform using Audience Composition. For more information, read the create a composition guide.

Next steps

After reading this guide, you’ve learned how to access, manage, and create access labels for your compositions. For more information on working with audiences as a whole, please read the audiences guide.

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