Edge Ingestion of Individual Profile Attributes

[trojan_horse]

Hello, 

I have a bit of an urgent ask. Is it possible to ingest attributes from the edge network into an individual profile class? So instead of the data getting saved into an experience event class we would need to map the individual profile class attributes in data collection. If this is possible, how can it be done?

Thanks,

Sachin

[bjoern__koth]

Hi @trojan_horse 

unfortunately, this is currently not possible through the Web SDK. This is a known limitation, I opened a product idea for this a couple of weeks back, also sketching roughly how I used Launch SSF to achieve this.

You can use HTTP API Connections for this.

[AbinashNayak]

Hi @bjoern__koth ,
I have a similar question on this regd,
what is the below Profile Dataset option is used for in Datastream config for AEP.

Thanks,
Abinash

[bjoern__koth]

Hi @AbinashNayak 

Presumably, that is to signal AEP RTCDP which profile dataset it shall try to merge the events with, using the identity map information in your experience events..

(Or maybe an indicator of what's to come in the future, should it ever be possible to send Profile data through the datastream)

Documentation on that one.

[Abhishek_Adobe]

As of now the profile dataset field can be used for following purposes:

1. Storing push tokens from mobile app

2. Storing consent information against profile

Directly sending data to Profile dataset is not possible via Data Collection. Couple of ways that can be explored are:

1. Using HTTP API source connection - Define a HTTP API source in AEP and send data from client side using AJAX/fetch method to the DCS API endpoint.

2. Using Event Forwarding (requires RTCDP license)

[trojan_horse]

Is this possible using the edge api call instead of webSDK?

[bjoern__koth]

Yes, you must set up an HTTP API source in AEP and can use that to ingest Profile information.

If you DM me your email, I can send you more details (I had explained my approach it in length to a support agent a few weeks back via mail and can forward you that if you like)

[dwright]

The only valid use of that "Profile Dataset" option that I am aware of is for storing device tokens when doing Push messaging to mobile devices with AJO. I wish that field had a label that didn't suggest it could be used to send XDM Individual Profile data to AEP.

[dwright]

@trojan_horse ,

Obviously I don't know your use case, but if it's just a field or two you are trying to store as a profile class attribute, one thing you can do is use Computed Attributes to store a field from an XDM Experience Event record as an XDM Individual Profile attribute.

https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/platform-learn/tutorials/profiles/create-a-computed-attri...

[kautuk_sahni]

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