Adobe Launch - accessing Data Element object properties using %...%

[bjoern__koth]

Hi experts,

I was wondering whether there is a way to access attributes from an object type DataElement using the percent syntax?

Let's say you have this data element that may contain an unspecified list of attributes

// sample data element "myDE"
return {
  "hello": "world"
};

Now, is there any chance to use this in XDM, constant data element, etc.?

%myDE.hello%

just returns "%myDE.hello%" since it does not seem to successfully resolve the expression.

I mean the implications of having this feature would be huge since you could save a ton of unnecessary data elements, likely with additional code if you could just map to a result of one single preprocessed data element.

Cheers

[bjoern__koth · Accepted solution]

After checking with the Launch developers, this is not an easy change since DE naming may contain dots and a change may break other functionalites.