👉 Targeting configuration

📖 Definition

The targeting step enables you to make your feature visible to one or several groups of users with shared characteristics.
To define your targeting, you can either configure feature targeting for:

• All users: target all the visitors landing on your feature.
• Users by ID: target the users belonging to a specific ID.
• Targeting by key: target the users matching a specific key.

Using the Decision API directly, or one of our SDK (in API or Bucketing mode), you can target your users via different criteria depending on the package you have subscribed to.
These criteria are also called User Context keys and are useful to target users, but also to filter reporting of your feature when analyzing its results.

⚙️ Configuration

For targeting by key, you need to define a User Context key. To do so, you can either use an existing key, by selecting Key from the first dropdown list and its matching value in the Select a value field; or create a new key and define its value.

To configure a new User Context key, click ‘Add a criterion’ and select Key in the first dropdown list and 'Add new' in the Select a value field.

There are two types of User Context keys:

• Technical keys (for example device, system, geolocation, version).
• Behavioral keys (for example VIP, Early Adopter, Buyer, Viewer, DefaultUser, age, name).

⭐ Good to know

You can also create targeting keys in the Persona screen or when calling the Decision API with new context keys.

To send these criteria through one of our SDKs or our Decision API, refer to the Developer Portal.

🚩 Heads up

Once you have retrieved data from your various experiments or feature management use cases, you can use the reporting to filter according to the user context keys that you have configured in the step targeting (see screenshot).

💡 Use case

For example, you may need to deploy your feature progressively to different groups of users. Let’s say you want to test your feature internally first, then make it visible only to your early adopters and finally to all your users.
To do so, you can first push a user context key that you would call “userType”:“internal”, then change it to “userType”:“earlyAdopter” and finally to “All users”.

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