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Community Advisor
Feb 5, 2019 6:50 PM UTC
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Delete profile attributes

It would be nice to be able to delete profile attributes without having to wait for the profile to expire or to load the attribute with false data so that it no longer qualifies for an audience.

13 replies

Level 2
Apr 5, 2019 9:34 PM UTC

Agreed. I tried setting the profile attribute to null, hoping that would delete it but it just cleared the value.

So is the only way to remove profile attributes by waiting until they expire?

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MihneaD
Adobe Employee
Adobe Employee
Apr 8, 2019 9:09 PM UTC

@Eric,

Wish I could vote this up twice.

Mihnea Docea | Technical Support Consultant | Customer Experience | Adobe | (:: 1 (800) 497-0335

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Adobe Employee
May 15, 2019 7:20 PM UTC

At this point there is no functionality it Target to delete them and you do have to wait for them to expire.

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Adobe Employee
Jun 3, 2019 4:40 PM UTC

+1 from me, I know there is interest out there from many about exactly this.

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Adobe Employee
Jun 3, 2019 4:44 PM UTC

Definitely a handy feature to have!

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Oct 25, 2019 7:06 PM UTC

Note that while it's apparently still not possible to delete profile attributes, via an offer one could reset the profile to some other value or to an empty string. For example:

adobe.target.trackEvent({

'mbox': 'YOUR-MBOX',

        'params': { 'profile.YOUR-ATTRIBUTE': '' }

});

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Dec 19, 2019 7:54 PM UTC

Is there even a way to reset them? This makes everything so difficult to test. 

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Level 2
Jun 3, 2021 12:37 PM UTC

It would be really useful to force the removal of old attributes.

 

Use-cases:

- Old parameters that were added during development

- Parameters where the name was changed on behalf of our customers

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laurav50689299
Level 2
Jun 10, 2021 8:49 AM UTC

+1 from me too. As mentioned by the other contributors, there are so many relevant use case where it would be relevant to be able to delete this.

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New Member
Jul 23, 2021 2:12 PM UTC

when could we expect a fix for this? I mean, having an option to delete un-used parameters

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