Script profile attributes

Last update: July 17, 2023

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  • Developer

Script profile attributes are name/value pairs defined in the Adobe Target solution. The value is determined from executing a JavaScript snippet on Target’s server per server call.

Users write small code snippets that execute per mbox call, and before a visitor is evaluated for audience and activity membership.

Format

Script profile attributes are created in the Audiences section of Target. Any attribute name is valid, and the value is the result of a JavaScript function written by the Target user. The attribute name is automatically prefixed by " user. " in Target to distinguish them from in-page profile attributes.

The code snippet is written in the Rhino JS language and can reference tokens and other values.

Example Use Cases

  • Cart Abandonment: When the visitor reaches the shopping cart, set the profile script to 1. When the visitor converts, reset it to 0. If the value =1, then the visitor has an item in the cart.
  • Visit Count: On every new visit, increment the count by 1 to keep track of how often a visitor returns to the site.

Benefits of method

Requires no page code updates.

Executes before audience and activity membership decisions, so these profile script attributes can affect membership on a single server call.

Can be very robust. As many as 2,000 instructions can be executed per script.

Caveats

Requires JavaScript knowledge.

The execution order of profile scripts cannot be guaranteed, so they cannot rely on each other.

Can be difficult to debug.

Code examples

Profile scripts are quite flexible:

user.purchase_recency: var dayInMillis = 3600 * 24 * 1000; if (mbox.name == 'orderThankyouPage') {  user.setLocal('lastPurchaseTime', new Date().getTime()); } var lastPurchaseTime = user.getLocal('lastPurchaseTime'); if (lastPurchaseTime) {  return ((new Date()).getTime()-lastPurchaseTime)/dayInMillis; }

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