Restricting input for profiling

When Campaign profiles a field, it creates only those segments that are available in the input to the process where you are performing profiling.

In other words, if you restrict input to the Segment process, and you profile a field based on the restricted input, the Profile only displays segments that were available in the restricted input.

Consider this example:

You configure a Select process that does a query that returns only 354 records.

You use that Select process as input to a Segment process.

In the Segment process configuration dialog, you use the Profile feature to see which values are available in various fields.

The selection that you make in the Input list of the Profile Selected Field dialog determines how many records are profiled. If you choose None, Campaign profiles all of the records. If you choose the incoming Select box as the Input, Campaign profiles only the records that were selected by that process. If the Select process query resulted in only 354 records, Campaign profiles only those records.

The following example shows a restricted profile, where the Input is set to Select1.

For the Extract process, you must select the input cell to which the extract table is associated to profile the extracted fields because the extracted fields are attached to the inbound cell. You can choose None only for single input cell. For multiple input cells, you must select the input cell to which the extract table is associated.