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FAQs and troubleshooting

This page provides FAQs and troubleshooting information for common issues related to Customer Data Platform (CDP).

Abandoned cart

Issues

  • I added a product to my cart X weeks ago but didn’t buy it. Why does it appear in my current cart?
  • I added something to my cart and didn’t buy it. Why can’t I see it in the abandoned cart email?

Description

The abandoned cart model includes all the products added to a customer’s cart after the most recent transaction.

Resolution

Abandoned cart campaigns should be built using the following criteria: “INCLUDE (Abandoned a cart <in the timeframe you need>); EXCLUDE (Placed a transaction <in the same timeframe> OR Performed an event <checkout> <in the same timeframe>)”.

Use this criteria to avoid missing use cases where a mastercustomer has N child contacts and abandoned a product in one child contact. However, another child contact bought it later, either online or offline.

Self-service credentials management

Test connection for S3 or SFTP external failed

This issue occurs due to the following reasons:

  • Credentials are incorrect.
  • External service is down or unreachable (S3 or SFTP).

Workaround:

  • Verify the following details and update the credentials accordingly:
    • S3: Bucket Name, Access Key, and Secret Key
    • SFTP: Host, Port, and Username/Password or SSH Key
  • Ensure that the SFTP server is operational and reachable. You can verify the S3 status in AWS Status.

Connector is invisible in destination on the Actions tab

This issue occurs if the connector is not published.

Workaround:

  • Publish the connector. You can verify the status of the connector in the sources or destinations list page. If the status is Unpublished, click the corresponding connector and publish it.

Instance is unavailable in the instances list while adding a new integration

This issue occurs when the instance is already attached to another integration.

Workaround:

  • Create a new instance of the same type or use an existing instance of the same type in the Ready to Use state. You can verify the status of the instance on the instances list page. The status In Use indicates that the instance is already attached to an integration.

Unable to save or publish the connector

This issue occurs when the backend service is down.

Workaround:

Unable to create an instance

This issue occurs due to the following reasons:

  • The number of instances exceeded the maximum limit.
  • Provisioning is disabled.

Workaround:

Could not create a new instance (User role not found with the name A360)

This issue occurs when the A360 role name is not present.

Workaround:

Invalid token identifier

This issue occurs when the bearer token expires.

Workaround:

  • Generate a new bearer token by using the credentials and use it with host API.

Request is malformed or incomplete

This issue occurs when the URL has a missing searchterm.

Workaround:

  • Append ?searchTerm= in the host API URL.

Could not create a new instance (User role not found with the name Tracker)

This issue occurs when the Tracker role name is not present.

Workaround:

Incorrect payload format

This issue occurs when incorrect or incomplete payload data is sent to the Tracker API.

Workaround:

  • Send the payload data with the correct format and all the mandatory fields. For example,

        {
    "transactionitems": [],
    "transactions": [],
    "customers": [],
    "events": []
    }
    

Received an UnknownHostException when attempting to interact with a service

This issue occurs when you use invalid AWS credentials for provisioning.

Workaround:

  • Check with your AM to verify and update the correct AWS credentials in Ansible for the respective environment.

Unable to create the instance and its status is “Failed”

This issue occurs due to the following reasons:

  • The SFTP server cannot be reached. This might be due to temporary issues, such as network problems or server restart.
  • Credentials might have changed but the application doesn’t have access to the latest credentials.

Workaround:

  • Use the Retry Provision button after some time. If the issue persists, check the logs.
  • For credential-related issues, redeploy the service with correct credentials.

Unable to access the instance using correct credentials

This issue occurs due to the following reasons:

  • Lack of whitelisted IP: If you get a timeout issue.
  • invalid credentials: You didn’t copy the credentials correctly or pasted them in an editor that altered their characters.

Workaround:

  • To whitelist an IP, you must evaluate the IP range in your network that must be allowed to contact the SFTP server. After knowing the exact range of IPs, you can whitelist them by using the Allow-List Source IP Addresses option. This allows copy-separated values of individual IPs and Subnet-Masked IPs. After you specify these and save the information, you can retry after getting a successful response.
  • To avoid partial copying of values, you can use the Copy button in the CDP user interface.

User requires the old credentials

Owing to security reasons, CDP cannot display the credentials more than once. You must save the credential information when they are generated. If you do not have access to your old credentials and want to access the instance, you must regenerate credentials and use the new set of credentials for accessing the instance.

Unable to create a batch with more than 200 records in data erasure

CDP allows you to create a batch with no more than 200 records. If you attempt to create a batch that exceeds the limit of 200 records, the system displays an error message. For example,

The request is over the 200 batch limit. Remove profiles to Submit Request.

Workaround:

To ensure that you do not cross the 200 limit, remove the records. You can create separate batches with each batch containing a maximum of 200 record.

Zero-audience warning

Campaign execution in CDP fails with a zero audience warning message. You can view the warning message on the Campaign History page of each campaign. You can get zero-audience count in CDP campaigns due to the following reasons:

  • Audience count is zero: Occurs when the campaign could not target or run on any audience segment.
  • Audience does not have any matching content: Occurs when the targeted audience does not have any matching content.
  • No content that matched to the campaign output table: Occurs when no content matched to the campaign output table or the audience segment could not output data in the table.

Multi-touch attribution reporting

Why don’t I see the Attribution section in the Metrics tab

You are unable to view the Attribution section in the Metrics tab as the multi-touch attribution feature is not provisioned for your account.

To get access to this feature, contact your Acquia CSM or AM.

Why do I see a blank report after selecting relevant dimensions and metrics

This issue occurs when:

  • Either of the Transactionsummary, Promotiontypesummary, or Event tables is not refreshed with relevant data.
  • Tables are not mapped with each other due to blank or null values in the mapping column.