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Interact runtime environment configuration properties
This section describes all the configuration properties for the Unica Interact runtime environment.
Partition-specific configuration
The configurations defined under partition will be applicable to that partition only.
Interact | partitions | <partitionName> | general
These configuration properties define general settings for your runtime environment globally, including the default logging level and the configuration refresh interval setting. This will be applicable to all the partitions.
Interact | general | API
This configuration property defines setting for the authentication of the Unica Interact APIs.
Interact | partitions | <partitionName> | general | API | parameterHandling
Defines the settings for the API parameters related functionality.

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- Administering Interact
  When you administer Unica Interact you configure and maintain users and roles, data sources, and optional product features. You also monitor and maintain the design and runtime environments. Product-specific application programming interfaces (APIs) are available for you to use.
- Security Management
  Access to the Unica Interact runtime User Interface requires authentication. Only the Login IDs defined in Unica Platform and having Unica Interact admin role can access the pages.
- Configuring users
  Unica Interact requires you to configure two sets of users, runtime environment users and design environment users.
- Managing Unica Interact data sources
  Unica Interact requires several data sources to function properly. Some data sources contain the information Unica Interact requires to function, other data sources contain your data.
- Offer serving
  You can configure Unica Interact in many ways to enhance how it selects offers to present. The following sections describe these optional features in detail.
- Understanding the Interact API
  Unica Interact serves offers dynamically to a wide variety of touchpoints. For example, you can configure the runtime environment and your touchpoint to send messages to your call center employees informing them of the best up sell or cross sell prospects for a customer who has called with a specific type of service inquiry. You can also configure the runtime environment and your touchpoint to provide tailored offers to a customer (visitor) who has entered a particular area of your Web site.
- Managing the Unica Interact API
  Whenever you use the startSession method, you create a Unica Interact runtime session on the runtime server. You can use configuration properties to manage the sessions on a runtime server.
- Classes and methods for the Unica Interact API
  The following sections list requirements and other details you should know before you work with the Unica Interact API.
- Classes and methods for the Interact JavaScript API
  The following sections list requirements and other details you should know before you work with the Unica Interact JavaScript API.
- About the ExternalCallout API
  Unica Interact offers an extensible macro, EXTERNALCALLOUT, for use with your interactive flowcharts. This macro enables you to perform custom logic to communicate with external systems during flowchart runs. For example, if you want to calculate the credit score of a customer during a flowchart run, you can create a Java�� class (a callout) to do so and then use the EXTERNALCALLOUT macro in a Select process in your interactive flowchart to get the credit score from your callout.
- Unica Interact utilities
  This section describes the administrative utilities available with Unica Interact.
- About the Learning API
  Unica Interact offers a learning module which uses a naive-bayesian algorithm to monitor visitor actions and propose optimal offers (in terms of acceptance). You can implement the same Java�� interface with your own algorithms using the Learning API to create your own learning module.
- Interact WSDL
  The Unica Interact installation includes two WDSL (Web Services Description Language) XML files that describe the available web services and how to access them. You can view these files in your Unica Interact home directory, and an example is shown here.
- Interact runtime environment configuration properties
  This section describes all the configuration properties for the Unica Interact runtime environment.
  - Global Configuration
    The configurations defined globally will be applicable to all the partitions.
  - Partition-specific configuration
    The configurations defined under partition will be applicable to that partition only.
    - Interact | partitions | <partitionName> | general
      These configuration properties define general settings for your runtime environment globally, including the default logging level and the configuration refresh interval setting. This will be applicable to all the partitions.
      - Interact | general | API
        This configuration property defines setting for the authentication of the Unica Interact APIs.
        Interact | partitions | <partitionName> | general | API | requestThreadPool
        This configuration property configures the thread pool that retrieves supplemental treatments from other audience IDs specified in UACISupplementAudience.
        Interact | partitions | <partitionName> | general | API | monitoring
        This configuration defines settings for API performance monitoring and capturing JMX data for specific APIs.
        Interact | partitions | <partitionName> | general | API | parameterHandling
        Defines the settings for the API parameters related functionality.
        Interact | partitions | <partitionName> | general | API | parameterHandling | defaultScope
        The parameters in this node are for APIs and you can set the scope of the user defined parameters that are passed with the API. The parameters UACIPreRemoveParameter and UACIPostRemoveParameter will work as usual. They override this default scope setting.
      - Interact | partitions | <partitionName> | general | Customization Parameters
        This configuration provides the option to dynamically add ad-hoc parameters without the need to restart the runtime instance. Parameters added under this node will be picked up by the run time server dynamically if configuration auto-refresh is enabled. Currently, there is no parameter, so this functionality serves as a foundation for future use.
      - Interact | general | centralizedLogger
        This configuration property defines centralized logging for Unica Interact.
      - Interact | general | learningTablesDataSource
        These configuration properties define the data source settings for the built-in learning tables. You must define this data source if you are using Unica Interact built-in learning.
      - Interact | general | prodUserDataSource
        These configuration properties define the data source settings for the production profile tables. You must define this data source. This is the data source the runtime environment references when running interactive flowcharts after deployment.
      - Interact | general | systemTablesDataSource
        These configuration properties define the data source settings for the system tables for runtime environment. You must define this data source.
      - Interact | general | testRunDataSource
        These configuration properties define the data source settings for the test run tables for the Unica Interact design environment. You must define this data source for at least one of your runtime environments. These are the tables used when you perform a test run of your interactive flowchart.
      - Interact | general | contactAndResponseHistoryDataSource
        These configuration properties define the connection settings for the contact and response history data source required for the Unica Interact cross-session response tracking. These settings are not related to the contact and response history module.
      - Interact | general | idsByType
        These configuration properties define settings for ID numbers used by the contact and response history module.
    - Interact | flowchart
      This section defines configuration settings for interactive flowcharts.
    - Interact | partitions | <partitionName> | monitoring
      This set of configuration properties enables you to define JMX monitoring settings. You need to configure these properties only if you are using JMX monitoring. There are separate JMX monitoring properties to define for the contact and response history module in the configuration properties for Unica Interact design environment.
    - Interact | profile
      This set of configuration properties control several of the optional offer serving features, including offer suppression and score override.
    - Interact | partitions | <partitionName> | offerserving
      These configuration properties define the generic learning configuration properties globally. If you are using built-in learning, to tune your learning implementation, use the configuration properties for the design environment.
    - Interact | services
      The configuration properties in this category define settings for all the services which manage collecting contact and response history data and statistics for reporting and writing to the runtime environment system tables.
    - Interact | Caches | PatternStateCache | Parameter Data
      The configuration properties in this category control the Pattern State Cache used to host the states of event patterns and real time offer suppression rules.
    - Interact | Caches | PatternStateCache | loaderWriter | Parameter Data
      The configuration properties in this category control the Pattern State Cache loader.
    - Interact | partitions | <partitionName> | cacheManagement
      This set of configuration properties defines settings for selecting and configuring each of the supported cache managers that you can use to improve the performance of Unica Interact, such as EHCache or Ignite, which is built-in to your Unica Interact installation. Introducing Redis as another caching solution to support dynamically changing environments such as cloud providers. Use the Interact | partitions | <partitionName> | cacheManagement | caches configuration properties to configure the cache manager you want to use to improve performance.
    - Interact | triggeredMessages
      The configuration properties in this category define settings for all triggered messages and offer channel delivery.
    - Interact | activityOrchestrator
      The activity orchestrator category specifies the receivers and gateways for your Unica Interact inbound gateway activity.
    - Interact | ETL | patternStateETL
      The configuration properties in this category define the settings for the ETL process.
    - Interact | simulator
      This section describes all the configuration properties for the Unica Interact simulator. It is not recommended to perform other simulation related actions, such as add, copy, delete, and modify, when a simulation run is in progress. The configuration category defines the parameters to be defined to run the coverage analysis scenario of Simulator module.
- Interact design environment configuration properties
  This section describes all the configuration properties for Unica Interact design environment.
- Real-time offer personalization on the client side
  There may be situations where you want to provide real-time offer personalization without implementing low-level Java�� code or SOAP calls to the Unica Interact server. For example, when a visitor initially loads a web page where Javascript content is your only extended programming available, or when a visitor opens an email message where only HTML content is possible. Unica Interact provides several connectors that provide real-time offer management in situations where you have control only over the web content that is loaded on the client side, or where you want to simplify your interface to Unica Interact.
- JVM parameters
- Unica Interact and Digital Recommendations integration
  Unica Interact can integrate with IBM Digital Recommendations to provide Unica Interact-driven product recommendations. Both products can provide product recommendations for offers, but using different methods. Digital Recommendations uses a visitor's web behavior (collaborative filter) to build correlations between visitors and recommended offers. Unica Interact is based on customer's past behavior, attributes, history, and less on view-level offers, learning which offers best match a customer's behavior profile (based on demographics and other information about the customer). Offer acceptance rates help to build a predictive model through self-learning. Using the best of both products, Unica Interact can use a personal profile to define offers that will pass a category ID to Digital Recommendations and retrieve recommended products based on popularity (the "wisdom of the crowds") for display to the visitor as part of the selected offers. This can provide better recommendations for customers that will result in more click-throughs and better outcomes than either product acting alone.
- Interact and DDX integration
  With Digital Data Exchange, your website can link to Unica Interact to provide a powerful omni-channel execution engine that delivers the best offers to the optimum channels and evolves (learns) from the offer feedback to continuously increase marketing effectiveness.
- Unica Interact and Unica Journey integration
- Unica Interact and Unica Deliver integration
- Configure gateways
  Use triggered message gateways to send offer information from outbound channels.
- Interact Design Time Separation from Campaign
  Unica Interact 12.1.6 onwards, Interact Design Time is a standalone application under Unica suite, independent of Campaign. Interact Design Time has been part of the Unica Campaign product hence tightly coupled with Campaign and uses a lot of Campaign services. After separation, Interact Design Time can function properly irrespective of Campaign is installed or not. Interact Design Time is a new application under HCL Unica having its own configurations for Security, REST API Filter configuration, UI Navigation settings etc deployed with /InteractDT as context root.
- Multi-partition Support in Interact Runtime
  Unica Interact now supports multi-partition in the Interact Runtime configuration.
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Interact | partitions | <partitionName> | general | API | parameterHandling

Defines the settings for the API parameters related functionality.