ECID value to be sent to Adobe Analytics

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July 12, 2024
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Hello team,

Earlier with appmeasurement, we used to send Adobe analytics the ECID with "D=mid" to one of our eVars.

Now with WebSDK, Adobe recommends we use alloy send if we have to use it on client side:

return alloy("getIdentity")
.then(function(result) {
console.log (result.identity.ECID);
_satellite.setVar("mcid", result.identity.ECID);
});

So i use aboe code, but this code always runs at the last even if the rule has priority 1.

Do you have any other recommendations on how can i send ECID to Adobe Analytics?

Thanks,

Nitin

Experience Platform

Best answer by bjoern__koth

Hi @nitinct

this is indeed a super unreliable way to use. Please refer to this documentation

https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-platform/tags/extensions/client/web-sdk/accessing-the-ecid

and rather do the mapping on your datastream in the Experience Platform.

Don't ask me why Adobe has made this so complicated, but this way I am reliably getting the values in. No need for any client-side requests anymore.

bjoern__koth

Accepted solution

Community Advisor and Adobe Champion

Hi @nitinct

this is indeed a super unreliable way to use. Please refer to this documentation

https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-platform/tags/extensions/client/web-sdk/accessing-the-ecid

and rather do the mapping on your datastream in the Experience Platform.

Don't ask me why Adobe has made this so complicated, but this way I am reliably getting the values in. No need for any client-side requests anymore.

Cheers from Switzerland!

N

NitinCTAuthor

Level 2

hi Bjoern_koth,

Thank you so much for reply. And you are right on why Adobe might have made this so much complicated. Typical Adobe.

Now when i use Data Prep, i dont see this mapping available for me:

xdm.identitymap.ECID[0].id.

I am guessing this would only when i feed this to my Data object on my site. Question is how do i have this available in my data object.

If you can share some steps that would be great.

Once all this is done, how do i debug if this value is getting into my XDM object?

bjoern__koth

Community Advisor and Adobe Champion

Got it, One last thing, how do i verify that this value is getting assigned to the eVar of my choice? I tried to see it in debugger but i dont see that happening.

You will have to use the Experience Platform Debugger and/or AEP Assurance for it and check the Edge Transactions.

Theoretically, you will also see this inside of the debugger itself, but this is typically such an overloaded visualization without working filtering which tends to crash, that Assurance might be the easier way...