ATG Outreach Administration and Development Guide

The ListImport/project/listImport workflow starts by declaring a repository asset placeholder (Email List) from the /atg/epub/process/ProcessDataRepository and setting the Email List Import item type to required. As a result, users must supply an e-mail list before the workflow will continue.

ATG Outreach stores the uploaded list in the <ATG9dir>\home\data\pub\import directory by default, although you can change the storage location – see Configuring the ImportRMIClient for information.

Import List Task

The ImportList task is the first step in the ListImport/project/listImport workflow:

Step 1 of the Import List project workflow

This task has two possible outcomes, Confirm Import and Delete Project, which correspond to Import List and Cancel choices in the Import an Email List page in the ATG Business Control Center.

If the user selects Cancel, the workflow discards the project. If the user selects Import List, ATG Outreach adds the list entries to the profile repository (/atg/userprofiling/ProfileAdapterRepository) on the ATG Outreach Production/Staging instance configured to handle import operations. It then advances to the Create Import Segment task described below.

Note: Deleting the project (discarding it through the Cancel option) does not remove the list from the <ATG9dir>\home\data\pub\import directory.

Create Import Segment Task

The Create Import Segment task is the second step in the ListImport/project/listImport workflow:

Step 2 of the Import List project workflow

This task has two possible outcomes, Create Segment and Don’t Create Segment, which correspond to the Create User Segment from List option in the ATG Business Control Center.

If the user does not select the option, the workflow checks the project in and marks it as complete.

If the user selects the option, the workflow does the following:

Deleting Profiles Imported Through Lists

Import-based information can be removed from the profile repository only through the list import expiration feature. (For more information, see Importing a New Mailing List in the ATG Outreach Guide for Business Users.) If you set an expiration date when the list was created, the profile information is removed when the date is reached. If you did not set an expiration date, you can remove the list information by expiring the list manually through the ATG Dynamo Server Admin on the ATG Outreach Production/Staging Server. In the Component Browser, navigate to /atg/campaign/list/imports/ImportService and click List Import Infos. Click Expire for the list you want to remove.