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Level 2
November 8, 2022
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Behavior and Person Score

  • November 8, 2022
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Hi everyone 

 

So I am new to this organization and when I started executing some campaigns I was asked to update the scores in the flow steps of individual programs while we were having an agency update our lead scoring. So for example, when we had list imports come in from content syndication, I was asked to give them 40 points. Well, I assumed that I would be adding this to behavior score since they filled out a form to get into the system, but I was later told they only use person score right now. Is there a way for me to remedy this and add it to the person score without having to go into individual campaigns? If I do have to do it individually, I assume I would make a campaign that takes the 40 points off behavior and then execute another to add to person? Is there a better way to do this?

3 risposte

Darshil_Shah1
Community Advisor and Adobe Champion
Community Advisor and Adobe Champion
November 9, 2022

If you're able to get the names of all the campaigns where-in you've updated the Behavior Score field instead of the Person Score field, then you can use that as a filter in the campaign's SL criteria (use the Member of Smart Campaign filter) and in the flow, you can have two flow steps, one each for updating the Behavior Score and the Person Score. You'd need to deduct 40 score points from the Behavior Score field and add 40 points to the Person Score field. Run this campaign as a onetime batch update.

 

As a rule of thumb and in almost all the scoring models that I've seen, Person Score is always the sum of the Demographic and Behavior Score fields, and if we update any of the score fields (Behavior or Demographic) for a person, we also update the Person Score by same points. Please let us know if you have any questions. 🙂

 

gkrajeski
Level 10
September 16, 2025

@darshil_shah1 do you have an example of a decay and how you data-fy the inverse value for use in the flow step?

 

I recently came across @kenny_elkington post on the Compute Formula User Guide as a potential workaround for Marketo not being able to perform math operations in flows.

Ruchi_Lapran1
Adobe Champion
Adobe Champion
November 14, 2022

The Campaign inspector will help you search all the campaigns with Behaviour Score in their flow steps and I second on @darshil_shah1's recommendation on using Behaviour and Demographic both for calculating the Person Score. However, the form-fill activity tells about a person's interest and it makes sense to update the behavior score based on that activity.

 

Please confirm if Behaviour Score is not being used at all. If that's the scenario and your team does not intend to use it for now, then you can block the field from updates after remediating the score. Furthermore,  you can also nullify the behavior score instead of a deduction. I have experienced some cases wherein clients update scores during list import itself but that resulted in overriding the existing data value and backfill campaigns had to be run.

Using static lists and running batches is a good practice as you'd know exactly which leads are to be targeted and results tab would show the outcomes with descriptions. It's helpful in troubleshooting if a record gets skipped somehow.

 

Level 2
January 23, 2026

Hi ​@KT_CD - yes, you can fix this without editing every program.

Best approach:

  • Stop any campaigns adding Behavior Score going forward.

  • Build one central batch Smart Campaign to realign existing points:

    • Smart List: affected leads (e.g., imported via content syndication / member of those programs / has Behavior Score > 0)

    • Flow: subtract/reset Behavior Score, then add the equivalent to Person Score (if that’s now your model).

  • Going forward, keep scoring in a single centralized scoring program, not inside individual nurtures/programs.

If your scoring logic is spread across many legacy programs, teams like Miinfotech can help audit and consolidate it quickly.

saurabh from miinfotech.com
SanfordWhiteman
Level 10
January 23, 2026

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