- TLC Home Home
- Discussions & Ideas Discussions & Ideas
- Product Guides Product Guides
- Knowledge Base Knowledge Base
- Developer Docs Developer Docs
- Education Education
- Blog TLC Blog
- Support Desk Support Desk
This article will define what a delayed action is, inform you of some prerequisites of delayed actions, what are the rules that surround delayed actions, and give some examples of delayed actions, for lack of a better word, in action.
In this article:
Only vistor-level attributes can be sent in a delayed action. Visit-level attributes are out of scope by the time the connector action fires.
A delayed action is literally that... an action that is delayed based on a set of conditions and/or time criteria. Delayed actions come in two general types:
• A delayed action is scheduled only if the visitor is in the audience at the end of current visit.
• Also the delayed action is triggered only if the visitor is still in the audience at the scheduled time.
When selecting "DELAY Action for 1 Days", if a visitor is in the audience when the visit ends, a delayed action is scheduled for 1 day later.
More often than not, we find the condition "In Audience at the end of visit" is too easily met. Thus, we added a new option to the "In Audience at the end of visit" condition called "AND was not a member of this Audience at start of visit".
The results of selecting "AND was not a member of this Audience at start of visit" are:
In the "DELAY Action for 1 Days" example above, a delayed action is scheduled 1 day (24 hours) later at the end of the visitor's first visit. If the visitor returns for a second visit 12 hours after the first visit ended AND the visitor meets the condition "In Audience at end of visit" when the second visit ends, then the original delayed action will be rescheduled to 1 day (24 hours) after the second visit ends. In other words, the delayed action is now scheduled to 36 hours after the first visit ends.
In this case, the visitor returns for a second visit after the original delayed action has been triggered. If the visitor meets the condition "In Audience at the end of visit" when the second visit ends, then a new delayed action will be scheduled.
No. The value is stored as an integer. So you can only use whole numbers like 1, 2, 3, etc. Number values like 0.25, 0.75, 1.5 are not allowed. The lowest value you can use is 1.
365 days or 8760 hours
Copyright All Rights Reserved © 2008-2021