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nirshani
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December 10, 2023
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Data lifecycle requests. what happend to the profile ?

  • December 10, 2023
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hi 

 

i need to remove some of my profiles from the AEP

i can see that i can schedule https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/platform-learn/tutorials/data-hygiene/delete-datasets.html?lang=en

 

  1. is this removing the profile from the profile service or from the data lake or both ?
  2. what happens if the profile is in the middle of the journey ?
  3. what happens with all the data related  to this profiles , like "event-step"  dataset ? is all the logs related to the profile are gone  ?

Thanks

 

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Best answer by AnkurSingla

Hi @nirshani 

If there are 50k profiles then API wouldn't help or would not be an ideal way. You can think about deleting the batch instead or deleting the entire dataset if that is a possibility but a dataset can have more than 50k profiles and probably you don't want all the data to be deleted.

As you delete a profile and at this very moment, whatever data has been collected will get deleted which means previous journeys part of the profile are no longer valid. When new data goes in AEP for the same user, it will create a new profile.

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AnkurSingla
AnkurSingla
Level 2
December 11, 2023

Hi @nirshani

You can delete an entity using /ups/access/entities API
https://platform.adobe.io/data/core/ups/access/entities?schema.name=_xdm.context.profile&entityId=$$$$&entityIdNS=$$$$$&mergePolicyId=$$$$


Detailed documentation here:

https://developer.adobe.com/experience-platform-apis/references/profile/#tag/Entities/operation/deleteEntity

  1. is this removing the profile from the profile service or from the data lake or both ? Both
  2. what happens if the profile is in the middle of the journey ? It will get added again once a new identity gets into AEP but with future data. 
  3. what happens with all the data related  to this profiles , like "event-step"  dataset ? is all the logs related to the profile are gone? Yes


Thanks,
Ankur

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    nirshaniAuthor
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    December 11, 2023

    thanks

    i need to remove 50k profiles to API is not a good option  

    for my second question let me sharpen it  - what happens if i'm deleting a profile while he is in the middle of journey ? does he finish the journey then delete or it thrown out of the journey in the exact moment ?

     

     

      AnkurSingla
      AnkurSinglaAccepted solution
      Level 2
      December 11, 2023

      Hi @nirshani 

      If there are 50k profiles then API wouldn't help or would not be an ideal way. You can think about deleting the batch instead or deleting the entire dataset if that is a possibility but a dataset can have more than 50k profiles and probably you don't want all the data to be deleted.

      As you delete a profile and at this very moment, whatever data has been collected will get deleted which means previous journeys part of the profile are no longer valid. When new data goes in AEP for the same user, it will create a new profile.

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