Journey Settings or Deduplication
About this task
Unica Journey takes input from multiple Entry Sources like file, REST, Kafka, Unica Campaign, Unica Interact, Unica Discover etc. Sometimes an existing audience record might get pushed to the same Journey multiple times. For example, Unica Campaign type entry sources using Kafka could push the same audience information from each run of flowchart to the Journey. Similarly, REST or file-based Entry Source might also send the same audience record in to the Journey. You can use Journey Settings to identify the duplicate records and specify the action to be taken on the duplicate records. The available actions are deleting the duplicates or updating the existing record with new data.
Deduplication works on the Required fields of Data Definition. This setting can be added to only to Journeys in Draft state.
To set deduplication of contacts, complete the following steps: