Welcome
Administration
Learn about how to configure, manage, and maintain HCL Detect environments. It includes details on system setup, user management, and permissions, ensuring seamless operation and efficient deployment of your continuous delivery processes.
Profile Management
Manage profile definitions and attributes through the HCL Detect UI or CLI.
Profile Management Overview
The Profile Management interface enables you to create, configure, and manage profiles that define the key identifiers and attributes for audience members in HCL Detect.
Profile Concepts and Components

Getting Started
Welcome to the documentation for HCL Detect, where you can find information about how to install, maintain, and use this service.
Installation
Learn more about HCL Detect installation and deploying core components of the product.
Administration
Learn about how to configure, manage, and maintain HCL Detect environments. It includes details on system setup, user management, and permissions, ensuring seamless operation and efficient deployment of your continuous delivery processes.
- Introduction
  Use this guide to administer HCL Detect, including user and role access, CLI-based configuration and management tasks, DEL reference topics, and support resources.
- User & Role Management
  This page explains how to manage roles and permission in HCL Detect.
- Configuration Management
  Use CLI commands to query and validate the infrastructure settings required for Detect operations.
- Metadata Management
  Use CLI commands to discover data sources, search tables, and retrieve column metadata for Detect integrations.
- Profile Management
  Manage profile definitions and attributes through the HCL Detect UI or CLI.
  - Profile Management Overview
    The Profile Management interface enables you to create, configure, and manage profiles that define the key identifiers and attributes for audience members in HCL Detect.
    - Profile Concepts and Components
    - Creating a Profile
  - Profile Management CLI Commands
    Use CLI commands to create, update, query, and delete profile definitions used by Detect.
- Feed Application
  Create and manage feed applications through the HCL Detect UI or CLI.
- About derived attribute functions
  Derived attribute functions enable you to offload complex calculations involving multiple tuple attributes to custom Python scripts.
- Feed Parser Mapping
  Use CLI commands to define and maintain feed parser mappings between incoming feed fields and Detect target attributes.
- Destination Management
  Use CLI commands to configure, validate, and manage destination endpoints for Detect event delivery.
- Crypto Management
  Use CLI crypto utilities to encrypt and decrypt sensitive values used in Detect configuration workflows.
- Troubleshooting & Common Errors
- Detect Expression Language
- Detect Expression Language Built-in Functions
Working with the System
The section provides comprehensive instructions for creating, configuring, and managing marketing events. It covers topics such as defining audience conditions, setting up triggers, deploying events, and tracking their performance. Additionally, this section includes explanations of key terminology and offers advanced options to optimize event management.
System Data Model
This section provides detailed information about the internal tables used within the Detect module. It includes descriptions of each table's structure, purpose, and relationships, aiding administrators and developers in understanding and managing the underlying database schema effectively.

Profile Concepts and Components

Understanding Profiles

A profile serves as the foundational data model in Detect. It represents a specific entity type (such as Customer, User, or Subscriber) and defines the attributes available for audience segmentation and personalization in pipelines.

Profile Attributes

Attributes are individual data fields within a profile that represent customer or audience member characteristics. Attributes are mapped from database columns and can include information such as:

Identifiers (AUDIENCE_KEY, CustomerID)
Demographics (firstName, lastName, age, gender)
Contact Information (email, phone, address)
Temporal Data (Date of Birth, registration date)
Other categorical or numerical data

Attribute Mapping

Attribute Mapping is the process of connecting database columns to profile attributes. During mapping, you specify:

DB Column Name (Type): The source database column name and its data type (String, Int64, DateTime, etc.)
Attribute Name: The business name for the attribute in the profile
Key Attribute: A boolean indicator specifying whether this attribute uniquely identifies records

Key Attribute

Every profile must have exactly one Key Attribute. The key attribute serves as the unique identifier for each record in the profile. This attribute is used to:

Match incoming feed data to profile records
Track audience members across pipelines
Link transactional and enrichment data to the profile

The key attribute for every profile must correspond to the primary key of its associated database table. The primary key uniquely identifies each record in the table.

Profile Status

Profiles can exist in the following states:

Draft: Profile is being created or edited but not yet active
Active: Profile is ready and can be used in pipelines
Master Profile: The primary profile in the system; at least one master profile must exist