AEP - update profile attribute conditionally

[GabrielaNa1]

Hi 

I have a question about the possibility to update a certain profile attribute under some conditions.

Let's say I have a profile attribute called "Last Touchpoint". If the attribute is populated in the profile, I don't want to overwrite it with the value coming from a batch ingestion for a certain source. In other words, I want the value already in the profile to trump any value coming from a certain source, unless the attribute in the profile is empty, but the data source has value.

Can this be achieved? Any suggestions?
Thanks.

[nnakirikanti]

@GabrielaNa1 It would be ideal to fix source flows in such situations, any solution with datalake will be a stopgap solution and wont represent right timestamp for streaming data as it will be processed in batches from UPS to datalake. 

If you need any additional help with this, please let me know; if not, please mark this thread appropriately.

~cheers,

NN.

[GabrielaNa1]

Hi

"It would be ideal to fix source flows in such situations" - not sure I understand what you mean by this. The source (a batch, not streaming in my case, but I don't think is relevant for my question) wouldn't know if the profile has value until the moment of fragment stitching, right? I do not care much here about the timestamp. All I care is to prioritize the value in the profile over anything that comes from this particular data source. Is this even possible?

[nnakirikanti]

@GabrielaNa1 I have interpreted your initial question in-correctly, prioritizing a value from a source is not feasible, you can prioritize a dataset data with dataset precedence. please check the link below.

https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-platform/profile/merge-policies/overview#datas...

~cheers,

NN.

[Harveer_SinghGi1]

Hi @GabrielaNa1 ,

I don't think what you are trying to achieve is possible, the best you can do is prepare your ingestion payload based on the value of the edge profile attribute for the identities you are sending and then ingest the modified payload. So these could be the steps,

• Setup an ETL process to Look up the profile attributes on the edge and modify the profile attributes based on returned data from the lookup request
• Send the batch ingestion request with updated data.

This is not something that I've tried so you can do a POC first if this is something that you think can serve your use case.

Cheers!

[kautuk_sahni]

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