Restricting input for profiling
When Campaign profiles a field, it creates only those segments that are available in the input to the process in which you are performing profiling.
In other words, if you restrict input to the Segment process, then profile that data based on that same field on which it was restricted, the Profile results can only display segments that were available in the restricted input.
For example, in a Segment process, if you use a query to select only those IDs associated with Credit Score < 5 out of a list of 10 potential credit score levels, then if you profile the same field (in this example, Behavior.CreditScore), then Campaign can only display the four segments corresponding to those four remaining credit score levels.
The following examples compare an unrestricted profile (where Input Cell on the Profile Selected Field window is set to None), and a restricted profile (where the Input Cell is set to Select1.out).
Unrestricted profile
On the Profile Selected Field window, the Input Cell is set to None. When profiling is performed, all 10 distinct values in the field Behavior.CreditScore are displayed.
Restricted profile
On the Profile Selected Field window, the Input Cell is set to Select1.out, the output cell from a select process providing input into the current process which is restricted to credit scores from 1 to 4.
When profiling is performed, only four categories are displayed, each corresponding to one of the allowed values in the input cell.
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