Two ways to create data filters: automatic generation and manual specification

Marketing Platform provides a utility, datafilteringScriptTool, that processes XML to create the data filters in the Marketing Platform system tables. Depending on how you write the XML, you can use this utility in two ways: automatic generation and manual specification.

Automatic generation

The datafilteringScriptTool utility can automatically generate data filters from a database table or view accessible using JDBC. The utility automatically creates data filters based on unique combinations of values in fields that you specify in the XML (one data filter for each unique combination).

You might want to use this method if you must create many data filters based on unique combinations of values in different fields.

Manual specification

The datafilteringScriptTool utility can create data filters one by one, based on field values that you specify.

You might want to use this method if you want to create a set of data filters that does not include every unique combination of field values.