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Richard Fahey

asked in Product Q&A

Can Segment be configured to selectively hash certain data or fields when exporting data? #doublehashing

Has anyone experienced scenarios where hashed email addresses are fed into Segment? We need to create audiences that will be sent back to our Marketing estate, retaining the original encryption of the email addresses. My understanding is that Segment hashes the outbound audience list, which would result in the email field being double hashed. Is there a feature in Segment that allows us to choose which fields to hash? I presume this setting would be in the associated tracking plan?

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5 months ago

Kelvin Ng

posted in Product Q&A

Error in accepting team invitaion

Hello, may I know do anyone encounter this situation? My team member have send me a workspace to me invitation through the email. It requires me to sign in, but I have no account so I created one, after that I cannot get into the workspace, do there are any solutions?

Inherited property from previous events

In the context of an app implementation, we are using screen calls and track calls to collect events from our front-end.Is there a way, using destination functions or something else, to force track calls to inherit some of the properties from the preceding screen call? The idea is to add context to events in order to know on which screen they happened.This is needed in my case because some downstream destinations do not support this screen>event hierarchy and do not display screen properties to events. I see that Mixpanel has this concept of “borrowed property” which is cool but limited (and only works in Mixpanel obviously).Thanks!

I use segment to maintain audiences. At times I want to activate an audience by downloading a CSV file from segment and using it to trigger for example a discount for an audience. for each audience I would like to maintain a say 5% control group, so that I can prove the audience behavior is triggered by the discount. I don’t seem to be able to find a method within Segment to be able to do this. Instead I need to run my downloaded file through an SFMC feature that will split out a random group of 5% from the audience.Does anybody know of a way that such a task can be done within Segment itself. Creating for example a random 5% of the Audience in another audience that would then be the control group for that audience.

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5 months ago

Bella Randall

posted in Product Q&A

Salesforce sync success rate dropped

Getting the error response that the cookie consent policy expires. Has anyone encountered this?

Qualaroo Destination not Receiving Identify payload

We have set up Qualaroo as a destination, and the tag is running fine. However we have identified a problem. We’re calling identify() from the server side which means the Qualaroo tag does not receive the traits and id payload via Segment’s _kiq.push() call, precisely because we are firing identify from the server-side.As a workaround to this issue we were considering adding a custom source function in order to trigger the identify call on the client side. We would use the page event to trigger the identify call. Something like this: async function onPage(event, settings) { let eventBody = request.json(); Segment.identify({ userId: eventBody.userId });} Question: is this possible? If so, are there any issues or risks with this approach?

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5 months ago

Chauntel GreavesCommunity Manager

published in News & Updates

Product Announcement: An easier way build personalized audience segments using Linked AudiencesNews

🔗 Introducing Linked Audiences 🔗Designed to address the challenges both Data Teams and Marketers face with complex data processes, data pipelines to ensuring quality and compliance, Linked Audiences makes it easier and faster to create extremely targeted audience segments. Built on top of the Data Graph, Linked Audiences brings together warehouse data and real-time events for better profile enrichment and ultimately, better messaging. Read more about the release here and join us on June 25th, 12pm EST to learn more and ask questions.

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5 months ago

Chauntel GreavesCommunity Manager

published in News & Updates

New native extensions for dbt and Git SyncNews

Newly released integrations with dbt and Git Sync... With the Segment x dbt integration, you can: Select dbt models to sync and version-controlled through git. Schedule syncs after dbt Cloud jobs Validate your model changes With the Segment x Git Sync integration, you now have all the great features of Git in your Segment workspace to manage version control across Segment resources. Learn more about both here. Interested in being an early adopter? Let our Product Team know by replying on this thread.

Custom link based button inside engage email

Can we use a custom link as a ‘trait’ and then hyperlink it on a button in engage emails? I could not find a way to add a hyperlink to a button which is stored in a user trait. My use case - I want to send a personalised mail to my users which will be able to take them to their respective account pages (hence the custom link).

Hey all, I thought I would share a tip here in case someone else finds it useful. Recently, we needed to set up an integration from Google Lead Gen. None of the standard integrations from Google suited our needs, and we didn't want to use Zapier due to the additional costs. So, we created a source function and used the webhook integration from Google Lead Gen. This setup allowed us to send data to any of the sources connected to Segment.To understand the payload, we connected the source function to Google Lead Gen and inspected the incoming data. We then wrote the source function to transform the data into the correct format.The new Action-Based destinations in Segment are also beneficial because they make the mapping configuration straightforward.!-->

It’s not perfectly up-to-date, as I made this almost 2 years ago now, but this is how we are putting Segment at the center of our world.SourcesWe currently have 16 sources, mostly various front and back end engineering systems, python, ruby, js as well as our ios and android apps. In our typical setup, we have both a staging and prod system connected for testing, but do not connect our staging into the Engage portion to keep data clean. Warehouse & BIAll of our data flows into Redshift and we visualize in Looker. This is a work in progress for sure, but every day we add new reports to get ourselves more campaign performance data.DestinationsThis is where it gets fun in my opinion. We have everything from FullStory to Braze, Branch to Hubspot, Zendesk to Survicate, Google Ads to Optimizely. Needless to say, its a handful. In total, our roadmap is to get to 20 tools. SOOOO….What’s in your stack?

Know a Marketing Engineer looking for a new gig?

Hi! My (super-cool) company, DistroKid, is looking for an experienced engineer who is used to working with Segment, among other marketing tools. The role would work with marketing but will still be part of the engineering organization.DistroKid is the easiest way for musicians to get their music into Spotify, Apple, Amazon, Tidal, TikTok, and YouTube. They distribute over 40% of new music to the world, and artists get to keep 100% of their earnings.Not only is the company mission cool, but the culture is even better. Click here to apply: https://distrokid.teamtailor.com/jobs/4157595-marketing-engineer

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5 months ago

Grant Perry

posted in Product Q&A

Using predictive lifetime value for Meta (FB) ads

I’ve created a predictive LTV trait and want to leverage it via FB ads, especially for new customer acquisition. Is this limited to pushing it as an audience and creating a lookalike etc or is there a more sophisticated way to use this to find likely high LTV new customers?

Survey Solution Suggestions

Hello everyone! We are looking for a potential replacement for Alchemer to run surveys and collect product feedback. We need something that allows for multiple questions, logic-based paths and easy, lightweight implementation. Ideally it would integrate with Segment for easy triggers from Segment track events and streaming of survey data to various destinations. White labeling and a lightweight SDK or cloud-based solution would be great as well. Anyone have a solution they would recommend?

Source Function Not Working as Expected

Hello all!We currently sync all of our Segment data into Snowflake but there is one event which has a format that upon Segments automatic un-nesting of properties into columns creates a column explosion and sync failure.To overcome this we have been proposed creating the below flow. Segment Source via Function - this function is defined to intercept the malformed property and correct it. Creating an identical event besides that one event property being changed. Segment webhook Destination - this is a webhook (actions) destination which has as input our source which brings in the malformed event. This destination has a mapping configured to send to the webhook url defined by the Segment Source via Function.All Testing is showing that the Source Function is behaving as expected where I can pass in an event with the malformed event and it corrects it. The webhook Destination when sending a test event shows that the event being sent was a success. The problem is that the Source, powered by

Linking unknown users to a business / account

Hello, I am exploring how we can use Segment to associate un/known users to un/known businesses. Has anyone top tips to share regarding this activity.To date we have mapped out the un/known contact identities and the priority order. We are about to undertake a similar exercise for the business/accounts.Thanks in advance Richard

RETL Mapping - Refresh Test Data

When editing a mapping for RETL and the source data has changed, the sample data and test data do not refresh. Is there a way to force the preview and test data to refresh?

Integration of talon one and Segment engage

We use Segment Engage as our Engagement Platform and Talon One for promo handling. Wanted to check the viability of this use case if anyone else has tried this - When a user enters and audience/ or triggers an event, we want to generate a personalised promo code in Talon One and send it to Segment engage (in real timish) to send across to that user in an email. Specific question on this, how can we bring this incoming promo code from talon one into email template as a user trait. There is no default integration of Talon One and Segment for engagement use cases. (there is one for CDP data transfer, creating audience etc use case)

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6 months ago

Tri Le

posted in Product Q&A

Giving access to a team member to create destination

This is my use case:I (Admin) have created a few sources. I have given access to source A to my team member, and they need to create a destination that links to source A. However, it seems like only I can create destination, and they cannot. Is there such a setting in User Access Management that would make this possible?The main point is that I don’t want to be the only one creating destinations, because I could make a mistake when connecting sources to destinations, since I have access to all sources. I’d rather someone who only has access to one source, create the destination.

Searching for Historic Call

Hi there, I am hoping someone can help me find a resource where I can search for a historic call? I want to look at the raw data from a call which occurred around 10 hours previously. I can search in Sources > choose source > Debugger for calls which have happened recently (screen shown below) but am hoping to find one further back than this.I’ve taken a look in the documentation but it’s a tricky one to search and I haven’t come across anything that I think would work.Any help or advice anyone has would be greatly appreciated!

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6 months ago

Nicolas Recabarren

posted in Product Q&A

Search Custom Hubspot Object By Multiple Fields

Hello everyone!I have an integration from Segment to Hubspot Cloud Mode (Actions) where I created a mapping for group calls for update some deal’s properties on destination.The problem here is that I have a custom property “empresa_id” for search the deal that may be updated, it’s an unique internal company ID on my application, but in Hubspot it can be repeated in other deal with the same “empresa_id” value so Hubpost API failed, because it supports only one record update by request.I have another property called “empresa_activa” (boolean), it describes if deal is active or not, I want to use that property for search the deal to update too:But when I configure it on mapping, the request always fails because the generated search in request is:"filterGroups": [ { "filters": [ { "operator": "EQ", "propertyName": "empresa_activa", "value": "1" } ] }, { "filters": [ { "operato

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6 months ago

Leonardo

posted in Product Q&A

Facebook Clic Id cookie and FBP cookie are refreshed late

Hello everyone,We've integrated Segment with both Pixel destination and Conversion API destination on our web properties. The documentation emphasizes the importance of passing the `fbc` (Facebook click ID) and `fbp` (browser ID) cookies in the API events to allow Meta to deduplicate events effectively. However, we're encountering a synchronization issue described as follows:A user clicks a Facebook ad and lands on the landing page. Segment initiates, downloading the Pixel via its CDN and sends the `page_view` event to itself. At this point, Meta’s Pixel has not yet activated, so the event sent to Segment may contain either outdated cookies from a previous session or no cookies at all. Meta’s Pixel then activates and performs the following: Extracts the Facebook click ID from the URL and either updates the `fbc` cookie or creates a new one if it's not present. Similarly, it handles the `fbp` cookie, updating or creating it to store the browser identifier. Meta’s Pixel sends the `page

Using objects and arrays of objects as traits in email editor (Broadcast)

Can we use custom traits of data type objects and array of objects in email in Engage? For example - consider these traits - last_car_plan_selected (object type), list_car_policies (array of object type) Now, when I try using these objects in the email in a broadcast - I have used the traits as appearing in merge tags - {{ profile.traits.last_car_plan_selected.name }}, {{ profile.traits.last_car_plan_selected.premium }}, {{ profile.traits.list_car_policies.$.items.policy_start_date }} etc. When this email comes from Segment, the values are blank when infact these traits have specific values in user profiles. I tried using different formats of this using liquid js but it seems nothing works.

Integrating JSON type columns to Snowflake instead of flattening

When we send JSON object type columns to Snowflake, Segment flattens them and create separate columns for each key. This exceeds the 5000 properties limit. What would be a good workaround for this? We are thinking of sending data in Array format but it will require more effort in Snowflake to use such data.

In your companies, which roles are currently responsible for creating audiences in Segment?

Hi everyone, I'm curious to learn more about how your companies are currently building their audience creation processes. Specifically, I'm interested in understanding which roles are involved in this process. Is it primarily handled by the marketing team, the data team, or the product teams?

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