User Properties

Managing user-level properties that can be used for segmentation and conditional logic in Streams.

Properties can be defined at the user-level and later used for segmentation and conditional logic in Streams.

Updates via Browser

User properties can be managed from the browser by pushing commands to Fanplayr's Data Layer array. The following operations are supported:

user.set

Sets a property on the user record. It overwrites any existing value for the same property name.

Usage:

fanplayr_api.push({
  "_type": "user.set",
  "key": "email"
  "value": "[e-mail]",
  // Optionally expire the property after 7 days
  "maxAge": 7 * 60 * 60 * 24
});

Argument	Type	Description
key	String (required)	The name of the property to store.
value	any (required)	The value to store for the given property name.
maxAge	Number (optional)	Specifies the maximum duration in seconds to store the property.

user.setOnce

Sets a property on the user record, only if it does not already exist.

Usage:

fanplayr_api.push({
  "_type": "user.setOnce",
  "key": "firstSeen"
  "value": new Date()
});

Argument	Type	Description
key	String (required)	The name of the property to store.
value	any (required)	The value to store for the given property name.
maxAge	Number (optional)	Specifies the maximum duration in seconds to store the property.

user.increment

Increments or decrements a numeric property. If the property does not exist it is created and set to the amount specified.

Usage:

fanplayr_api.push({
  "_type": "user.increment",
  "key": "counter1"
  "value": 1
});

fanplayr_api.push({
  "_type": "user.increment",
  "key": "remainingCount"
  "value": -1
});

Argument	Type	Description
key	String (required)	The name of the property to store.
value	Number (optional)	The amount to increment by. Defaults to 1.
maxAge	Number (optional)	Specifies the maximum duration in seconds to store the property.

user.unset

Removes a property on the user record.

Usage:

fanplayr_api.push({
  "_type": "user.unset",
  "key": "email"
});

Argument	Type	Description
key	String (required)	The name of the property to remove.

Updates via Streams

User properties can also be updated via the Update User Data action in streams:

The Update User Data action interface in Streams

Limitations

Maximum storage size

An overall limit of approximately 20 KB can be stored for each user. Any updates to the user data that would exceed this limit are ignored and not persisted. The names, values and expiry information for each property count towards the overall limit.