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Omnichannel is a legacy feature that has been replaced by the File Import Data Source.
Omnichannel is a feature for importing offline data into AudienceStream where it can enrich visitor profiles and trigger real-time connector actions.
Before you begin:
This guide has the following sections:
Here's a quick overview of the omnichannel feature:
This guide covers the following topics:
The primary goal of an omnichannel import is to supplement online visitor profile data with valuable offline data. This is accomplished using two types of attributes: visitor and omnichannel. Visitor attributes define your visitor profiles and represent the unified view of your customer. Imported omnichannel attributes help complete this view of the customer via attribute enrichments.
An omnichannel attribute must be used in an enrichment of a visitor attribute in order for its data to be imported.
There are two components used in setting up an omnichannel file import: a file transfer service and a file definition.
The file transfer service is a secure location where you upload your files for Tealium to retrieve them. Tealium supports the following file transfer services:
If using your own file transfer service, be sure to have the connection details ready before proceeding.
A file definition is a detailed description of the CSV files to import. This includes the names of the files and the name of each CSV column (corresponds to a Customer Data Hub attribute). Each file definition must also specify a visitor identifier in each row of the file. This identifier links the imported data to visitor profiles in AudienceStream.
When a file is processed, the omnichannel attributes are used to create and update visitor attributes via enrichments. For this reason, it's important that your visitor attributes are configured to use the new omnichannel attributes in their enrichments.
For example, if you are importing offline purchase data and want to update a visitor lifetime order value, create an enrichment in the visitor attribute to leverage the omnichannel attribute.
order_total_amount
Lifetime Order Value
Resulting enrichment:
After you have configured a file transfer service with a file definition, upload a file to the service. The omnichannel system then follows this order of operations:
When multiple files are uploaded at the same time using SFTP or S3, the files are processed in the order of the upload timestamp.
Grouping rows with the same visitor ID increases the speed of the import.
Setting up an omnichannel enrichment requires you to configure a file transfer service and a file definition. To begin setting up an omnichannel enrichment, go to Sources > Omnichannel and click + Add Enrichment. The omnichannel dialog appears with a two-step process to configure a file transfer service and create a file definition.
To configure your file transfer service:
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A file definition identifies the names of the columns in the CSV file. These column names automatically generate omnichannel attributes with the same names. In the next section, these attributes are used to enrich visitor attributes.
Use these steps to set up a file definition and define omnichannel attributes:
Column names are case sensitive and may not contain "#", "^", or whitespace characters.
To see an example of what your CSV file should look like based on the file definition, click Download CSV or Copy CSV. The resulting file contains two rows of data, the header line with the column names and one row of placeholder data.
Example sample CSV:
"Email","OrderID","OrderDate","OrderTotal","TotalProductSpend","TotalShippingCharges"
"example@email.com","yyyyMMdd","value_1","value_2","value_3","value_4"
The next step is to configure your visitor attributes with enrichments based on the omnichannel attributes. Omnichannel attributes appear in the attribute drop-down menus for rules, enrichments, and streams.
Use these steps to view the list of existing omnichannel attributes:
Use these steps to enrich a visitor attribute with an omnichannel attribute:
The final step is to upload your CSV files. You need a third-party application to initiate the upload. We recommend Cyberduck because it’s free and supports FTP and Amazon S3, but you may use any client for this purpose.
To upload a file via FTP or Amazon S3 using Cyberduck:
You are now ready to upload files by dragging and dropping your CSV files into Cyberduck.
When using S/FTP, the file must be located in the root folder. Omnichannel cannot locate files in the sub-folders of an S/FTP connection.
If AudienceStream fails to copy a file via the file transfer service, it waits 10 minutes and tries again.
When a process failure occurs, the file is ignored and no further attempts are made to process it. Submit a Support Desk request to get assistance diagnosing a problem with a failed import.
File processing can fail for one of the following reasons:
Omnichannel does not support PGP or GPG key encryption. FIles must be unencrypted before import.
Compressed files can be imported.
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