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Questions around Opt-Out on Person/Company Person record

  • 24 February 2021
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I can’t seem to find the answers I need to this on the support website (if anything there is lots of conflicting material around this topic) so hoping community-to-the-rescue. 

We haven’t yet sent any non-operational e-mails so we’re not currently using the opt-out preferences, but we want to start doing so (including moving our customers existing preferences from another platform). 

So a couple of questions; 

1. There is an opt-out field on both the Person and Company Person objects - which is the one that is referenced when sending a program? 

Here it implies it uses the Person record; 


Whilst here it implies it uses the Company Person record (as they all need to be unsubscribed separately); 

 

2. If we use a custom object (or even a CSV) to build the participant list, will the system still check against person/company person (and again, which one?) record and exclude those where opt-out = true from the program? e.g. by matching on e-mail address?


I’m sure based on answers I’ll have some follow-up questions…


Thanks,

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Best answer by rakesh_lingala 8 March 2021, 12:52

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@HollySimmons the screenshots attached are not visible here. Could you please reattach them.

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@sai_ram does that work now?

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@sai_ram does that work now?

@HollySimmons yep, that works now. I will work on it and let you know. 

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It’s also not clear how an opt-out that occurs from a contact unsubscribing is stored differently than a contact that is unsubscribed by a GS user on the Person object.

A Person object opt-out is not searchable in the email validator, but someone that has taken the action to opt our or has bounced is, which would indicate they are two different fields. 

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I can’t seem to find the answers I need to this on the support website (if anything there is lots of conflicting material around this topic) so hoping community-to-the-rescue. 

We haven’t yet sent any non-operational e-mails so we’re not currently using the opt-out preferences, but we want to start doing so (including moving our customers existing preferences from another platform). 

So a couple of questions; 

1. There is an opt-out field on both the Person and Company Person objects - which is the one that is referenced when sending a program? 

Here it implies it uses the Person record; 


Whilst here it implies it uses the Company Person record (as they all need to be unsubscribed separately); 

 

2. If we use a custom object (or even a CSV) to build the participant list, will the system still check against person/company person (and again, which one?) record and exclude those where opt-out = true from the program? e.g. by matching on e-mail address?


I’m sure based on answers I’ll have some follow-up questions…


Thanks,

Hello, @HollySimmons,

Please see below the answers to your queries:

  1. If there is an opt-out field on both the Person and Company Person objects, the Person object field is considered while sending a Program.
  2. The Custom object is considered when it is used in any type of source to build the participant list.

Also, the related articles (SFDC / NXT) are updated.

Thanks for posting.

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@rakesh_lingala thanks for the reply. 

Just to dig in on this ;

 

  1. If there is an opt-out field on both the Person and Company Person objects, the Person object field is considered while sending a Program.

The field exists as standard on both objects, so do you mean if the value is not null?

Thanks

 

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@rakesh_lingala so it turns out the field isn’t standard on the Company Person object, it was added during our implementation and so I thought it was (as it has always existed). 

 

Thanks for the information, going to unpick that field and remove it so we can just use the Person one instead. 

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