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yunseng94
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October 27, 2022
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Visited web page filter [starts with]

  • October 27, 2022
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Hi everyone, basically I have a website example.com/software/procurement/ and I have a smart list with filter of "Visited web page" [starts with]: example.com/software/ ONLY. May I know if my smart list is still able to capture anyone if they visited example.com/software/procurement/ ??

 

Looking forward for your favorable reply.

 

Thanks in advance.

Best answer by Darshil_Shah1

Yes, your SL should be able to capture any web page hits starting with the "https://example.com/software/" string in the constraint, and the link "https://example.com/software/procurement/"  does start with what you have in the SL.

 

The "contains" operator is a superset of the "starts with" operator. If the link that you want to trigger off the campaign upon web page visit is always guaranteed to start with a value, then you can very well use the "starts with" operator. And AFAIK, "contains" is always the slowest of all the operators. 🙂

 

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Disha_Goyal6
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Disha_Goyal6Community Advisor
Community Advisor
October 27, 2022

Hi @yunseng94,

 

If you use 'contains' in place of 'starts with' works better.

 

Thanks,

Disha

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    yunseng94Author
    Level 2
    October 31, 2022

    Thanks for the suggestion Disha

      Darshil_Shah1
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      Darshil_Shah1Community Advisor and Adobe ChampionAccepted solution
      Community Advisor and Adobe Champion
      October 27, 2022

      Yes, your SL should be able to capture any web page hits starting with the "https://example.com/software/" string in the constraint, and the link "https://example.com/software/procurement/"  does start with what you have in the SL.

       

      The "contains" operator is a superset of the "starts with" operator. If the link that you want to trigger off the campaign upon web page visit is always guaranteed to start with a value, then you can very well use the "starts with" operator. And AFAIK, "contains" is always the slowest of all the operators. 🙂

       

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        yunseng94Author
        Level 2
        October 31, 2022

        Hi Darshil, appreciate for your reply and your explanation on "starts with" filter. I believe you made a typo on the first link (should be  example.com/software/ ? ) 😃

        Darshil_Shah1
        Community Advisor and Adobe Champion
        Darshil_Shah1Community Advisor and Adobe Champion
        Community Advisor and Adobe Champion
        October 31, 2022

        Ahh, yes! I just updated it. Thank you for letting me know.

         

        Katja_Keesom
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        Katja_KeesomCommunity Advisor and Adobe Champion
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        October 31, 2022

        In general the answers provided are correct, with the caveat that in my experience, web page visits are stored in the activity log without the protocol at the start, so you should remove the https:// in your value to make it work. Tripped me up more than a few times before I understood the logic...

          Darshil_Shah1
          Community Advisor and Adobe Champion
          Darshil_Shah1Community Advisor and Adobe Champion
          Community Advisor and Adobe Champion
          October 31, 2022

          Yes, that is true Katja, and thank you for mentioning it here! 

           

          In Marketo, the Visits Web Page activity defines "Web Page" as the original hostname + pathname + hash, but not the protocol nor the query string.

           

          For everyone's reference, here's the link to Sandy's comment where-in he explains this along with all the components of an URL in detail.

           

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