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Adam Wilson is the Director of Marketing Operations at AIR MILES where he works at the intersection of technology, data, and marketing. At AIR MILES, he’s been involved in the end-to-end implementation of AEP RTCDP and Journey Optimizer, establishing a multi-channel audience library and integrated customer journeys that leverage real-time customer interactions. He has deep experience in marketing and advertising operations, designing multi-channel digital campaigns and experiences.
David, our very own AJO Community Advisor, is a seasoned Solution Architect based in Montreal, Canada, bringing extensive experience in IT consulting, software architecture, and marketing solutions implementation. His career has been marked by a strong focus on delivering end-to-end project excellence ; from requirements gathering and functional design to technical architecture, data modelling, and development. His ability to bridge the gap between complex technical requirements and strategic business goals has consistently delivered measurable value for clients around the world.
When will we be able to do lookups from AJO Fragments? Until then, what are some good workarounds? We are building a global base email template and would like to use lookups to personalize the header fragment in the template.
Hi @PuneetLa
We don't have visibility on the roadmap. We can it to the product team. As a work around, I will say to use the datasets lookup personalization as fragments have guardrails and limitations
Thanks,
David
We've seen some issues with migrating journeys/campaigns where the dependencies (e.g. conditions) aren't getting migrated. Is this a known issue? If so, is there a workaround?
@PuneetLamba_
Adobe is improving and updating the Sandbox Tooling frequently. Please check the lists of Adobe Journey Optimizer objects that are currently supported for sandbox tooling and limitations
In the August 2025 release, a main improvement is below
Sandbox tooling will now always reuse existing objects if objects with the same name are detected, to avoid object proliferation. This change applies to the following objects:
decisioning_ranking
decisioning_rules
While authoring a journey, we sometimes end up with overflow:hidden where a model enables it but doesn't disable it after the modal is exited. Adobe acknowledged the issue but hasn't fixed it. What's the best workaround for this? I've noticed that zooming out sometimes helps.
Support and/or Product team are working on this issue. Please open a ticket with Support to get a fix or a viable workaround.
For a read audience journey, Will there be an OOTB Allow reentry option coming up?? We are currently facing lot of issues with incremental read option, which doesn't help us anymore.
Agree. We've abandoned incremental read because it essentially prevents journey versioning (causes incremental read to reset)
For anyone that's facing a similar limitation on the Incremental Read option in relation to journey versions, you should be able to accomplish something similar, leveraging an audience exclusion.
This set-up should allow for re-entry after the customer has moved through the journey but prevent them from being contacted more frequently than you'd like.
Hi everyone! Welcome to our follow-up AMA from the AJO Skill Exchange sessions. I’m joined by our amazing experts @awilsonL1 and @DavidKangni, who led their respective sessions and are here to answer your questions live.
Drop your questions below, and while we wait for them to roll in, I’ll surface a few that came up during the webinar but couldn’t be addressed due to time. Let’s dive in!
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Are there any available details on the Mobile SDK code or trigger setup for the In-App channel in AJO? The IAM behavior appears inconsistent, as the messages are not always displaying within the app.
I'm not aware of this specific issue but I'd start by focusing troubleshooting on your Mobile SDK implementation.
Use Assurance to validate that the events you've configured as triggers within Journey Optimizer are, in fact, being fired when expected. It may be that there's a reason within your implementation that the events that trigger the message are not being fired.
In the event that you've validated that, I would also double-check the frequency settings within the in-app message configuration.
If you've already validated that the events are being fired as expected and the frequency settings are not going to block the expected message display, then I'd open a ticket. In the event there's actually a bug, leveraging the details from the debugging done in Assurance (mentioned above) will help narrow in on the specific issue with engineering.
Thank you Adam for your inputs.
One of the questions that came up in the Skill Exchange was:
is there a way in AJO to set alerts when journeys are about to expire, so
marketers get notified to extend them if required?
There's no out-of-the-box alerting option for this specific scenario but there's a few ways to approach this.
Can AJO also send alerts for drops or failures in a journey run — for example, if a breaking event or data flow issue causes interruptions?
Adobe Experience Platform provides several predefined alert rules that you can enable.
Here is a tutorial to subscribe to data ingestion alert using Adobe I/O Events notifications
You can leverage this approach with Observability Insights to build your own monitoring/alerts
There are a few out-of-the-box alert options for specific journeys.
If you're leveraging custom actions, you can be alerted when any of those actions leveraged within your journeys fails. A threshold can also be set in case you're only interested in being alerted if the action fails on more than <xx>% of profiles moving through the journey.
If your journey is leveraging Read Audience actions, you can also configure an alert to ensure you are notified if there is a failure in reading profiles on recurring journeys.
Details on these journey-specific alerts can be found within the product documentation here.
A side-note on alerts; if you'd like to be notified outside of the platform UI, double-check within your account settings to ensure you have email notifications enabled!
Another scenario that folks asked about during the Skill Exchange: what’s the best way to manage overlap when a customer qualifies for multiple journeys at the same time?
As of today, AJO offers several tools for conflict management and prioritization. These tools are available for campaigns and unitary, Audience Qualification, and Read audience journeys.
Find mor details here
Another question, for the requirement of having multiple IAMs triggered at different stages of the journey using the same trigger, can this be achieved within a single journey?
It's not recommended to use the same trigger at the different stages of your journeys. You can try to leverage Rule-based events to identify the relevant events that will trigger your IAMs at the stages. This rule can be based on any field available in the event payload but as best practices do not over engineering.
Thanks
Another question that sparked interest was around initiation: does a journey always need to start with a customer action, or can marketers also initiate a journey themselves?
Great question!
While customer actions are the most common use case, you occasionally want to trigger a journey based on an event that's not tied to an individual profile. This is where Business Events are useful.
There are a few things you will want to consider when setting these up.
With these things considered, you can leverage these business events within a journey where the occurrence of one of these events will trigger a journey that subsequently reads an audience of customers for inclusion within the journey you define.
Thanks everyone for joining today’s AMA! Huge shoutout to @awilsonL1 and @DavidKangni for taking out the time today to share their thoughts and insights. Really appreciate it!
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Aug 27, 2025 - 08:00 AM (PDT)
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