Dynamic Responses
This use case combines: Responses, Subtags and Associate Data to create Dynamic Responses
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This use case combines: Responses, Subtags and Associate Data to create Dynamic Responses
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I work for a games company which runs interactive puzzle rooms. We have a new experience where players have to scan various objects with a sci-fi device (a modified android phone) to view security and interview footage. Each object will have a discrete NFC tag on it and We have the footage as unlisted videos on YouTube. Each tag needs to point to a different YouTube video and ideally, we should be able to manage it all without having to scan each tag.
We needed all our tags to go to the same Website, but each tag then needed to go to a unique page.
With all our videos on YouTube, we looked at the URL's for a few videos and noticed that each one was similar but had a different code at the end. We decided that the best way to do this in ixkio would be using Subtags.
We put all our Footage Tags into a Tag Group and put them into two Batches:
Interview
Security
In the Tag Group we then set the Rule Set Default URL to the generic part of the YouTube URL (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=).
We then went into both Batches and downloaded the Tag Encoding Data. This would let us use Associate Data to make sure that every tag contained a code for a different YouTube video. We decided to use the Customer Unique ID (CUID) to store our unique YouTube code.
And so, in the Tag Group, at the end of our YouTube URL we put a Subtag so that the CUID code would automatically be added to the URL (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v={cuid}). Now we just needed to make sure each tag had YouTube video code as it's CUID.
Next we opened the first Tag Encoding Data we'd downloaded into Excel and we found the CUID Column. We kept the XUID and CUID columns, so the data could be matched up to the tags, but we deleted the other columns that we didn't want to change along with the Batch Name at the top.
Using the Tag Encoding Data we'd downloaded, we found the CUID column and pasted each YouTube code against an XUID.
We also put the video title against the Tag Name so we could keep track of them in ixkio.
Once we'd put all the codes into our trimmed back Tag Encoding Data spreadsheet, we saved it under a new name (e.g. InterviewUIDs) and opened up ixkio again.
We found the Batch we download the Tag Encoding Data from, went to Associate and clicked on Choose File. We selected our UID data file (InterviewUIDs) and then, on ixkio, clicked the Associate Tags button.
Each Tag now had a CUID which was also a YouTube video code.
To check, we opened up a random tag and clicked the dropdown arrow next to the XUID, found in the Tag Detail box. We copied the URL, pasted it into our browser, and it linked through to one of our videos with the same title as the Tag Name we'd put in for it.