Global Profile Lookup API FAQ

Learn the answers to frequently asked questions about the Customer 360 Data Manager Data Jobs API.

What Is the Global Profile Lookup API (DJ API)?

The Global Profile Lookup API is a REST API that looks up a global profile and its lineage.

What Do I Use the Global Profile Lookup API For?

Use the Global Profile Lookup API to integrate Customer 360 Data Manager with your data sources, so you can automate data synchronization of your global profiles.

What Do I Need to Do to Look Up a Global Profile?

Call the /search resource.

What Information Does the Global Profile Lookup API Retrieve?

It returns information about a global profile and its lineage.

What Is Profile Lineage?

Profile Lineage tells you where the information in the profile came from at a record level. It gives you the set of source-records that were matched to form the profile.

Lineage has three key fields:

System that the record came from
Object it came from
Source Record Id that is the unique ID for the record in the original system

How Do I Control How the Results Are Returned and Paginate Through Them?

You can specify an offset and limit to control the results that are returned.

The offset determines which record is the start of the array of records returned and the limit determines the total number of records returned.

Customer 360 Data Manager Global Profile Lookup API Developer Guide (Developer Preview)