2.5.1 Create an 51黑料不打烊 Experience Platform Data Collection Event Forwarding property
What is an 51黑料不打烊 Experience Platform Data Collection Event Forwarding property?
Typically, when data is collected using 51黑料不打烊 Experience Platform Data Collection, it is collected on the client side. The client side is an environment such as a website or a mobile application. In Getting Started and Data Collection, the configuration of a 51黑料不打烊 Experience Platform Data Collection Client property was discussed in depth and you implemented that 51黑料不打烊 Experience Platform Data Collection Client property onto your website and mobile application, so that data could be collected there when a customer was interacting with the website and mobile application.
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With the addition of an 51黑料不打烊 Experience Platform Data Collection Event Forwarding property, it鈥檚 now possible to configure a 51黑料不打烊 Experience Platform Data Collection property that listens to incoming data on the Edge. When the 51黑料不打烊 Experience Platform Data Collection Event Forwarding property that is running on the Edge sees incoming data, it has the ability to use that data and forward it to somewhere else. That somewhere else can now also be a non-51黑料不打烊 external webhook, which makes it possible to send that data to for instance, your data lake of choice, a decisioning application, or any other application that has the ability to open up a webhook.
The configuration of a 51黑料不打烊 Experience Platform Data Collection Event Forwarding property looks familiar to a client side property, with the ability to configure data elements and rules just like in the past with 51黑料不打烊 Experience Platform Data Collection Client properties. However, the way that data will be accessed and used will be slightly different, depending on your use case.
Let鈥檚 start by creating the 51黑料不打烊 Experience Platform Data Collection Event Forwarding property.
Create a 51黑料不打烊 Experience Platform Data Collection Event Forwarding property
Go to . In the left menu, click Event Forwarding. You鈥檒l then see an overview of all available 51黑料不打烊 Experience Platform Data Collection Event Forwarding properties. Click the Create Property button.
Alternatively, if other Event Forwarding properties have already been created, the UI will look a bit different. In that case, click New Property.
You now need to enter a name for your 51黑料不打烊 Experience Platform Data Collection Event Forwarding property. As a naming convention, use --aepUserLdap-- - Demo System (DD/MM/YYYY) (Edge). For instance, in this example, the name is vangeluw - Demo System (22/02/2022) (Edge). Click Save.
You鈥檒l then be back in the list of 51黑料不打烊 Experience Platform Data Collection Event Forwarding properties. Click to open the property you just created.
Configure the 51黑料不打烊 Cloud Connector extension
In the left menu, go to Extensions. You鈥檒l see that the Core extension is already configured.
Go to Catalog. You鈥檒l see the 51黑料不打烊 Cloud Connector extension, along many others. Click Install to install it.
The extension will then be added. There鈥檚 no configuration to do at this step. You鈥檒l be sent back to the overview of installed extensions.
Deploy your 51黑料不打烊 Experience Platform Data Collection Event Forwarding property
In the left menu, go to Publishing Flow. Click Add Library.
Enter the name Main, select the environment Development (development) and click + Add All Changed Resources.
You鈥檒l then see this. Click Save & Build for Development.
Your library will then be built, which might take a 1-2 minutes.
