Places Service event forwarding to Adobe Experience Platform

Capabilities

Enriches Adobe Journey Optimizer's ability to engage with users based on location entry and exit triggers.
Allows creating audiences based on points of interest (POI) visits.

Mobile SDK

Upgrade the Mobile SDK to the following Places extension version

Platform	Version Supported
iOS	4.1.0 and above
Android	2.1.0 and above

Experience Platform Configuration

Choose your Application's Experience Event Schema

In the browser, navigate to the Platform and login with your credentials.
If your organization is enabled for multiple sandboxes, first select the appropirate sandbox from the top right corner. For more details about sandboxes, please read the sandboxes overview.
From the left panel, select Schemas.
Select your Application's Experience Event Schema from the list of schemas.

Adding PlacesContext to your schema

Under the Field groups section, select Add.

Add New Field Group

Search and add Environment Details field group.

Add Environment Details Field Group

Mask/Remove the unnecessary fields from EnvironmentDetails Field groups

In the Field Group section, select Environmen Details followed by placeContext and on the right pane, select on Manage related fields

Manage Places Context Text Fields

Uncheck all the fields except for poiID (placeContext -> poiDetail -> poiID).

Also mask the devices and environment fields if they are not relevant to your application.

Manage Places Context Text Fields

Save your schema and select confirm. Your schema's placeContext field-group should look like:

Final Schema Structure

Datastream Configuration

In the browser, navigate to the Data Collection UI.
From the left panel, select Datastreams and from the list select the datastream that is configured for your application. For more details about configuring datastream, please read this section.
Find Adobe Experience Platform service, select ... and choose Edit.

Choose Platform Service

Make sure you have set up the dataset with placeContext field-group enabled schema as one of your event datasets in the datastream configuration.

Ensure correct dataset is present

Make sure the Adobe Journey Optimizer check box is enabled.

Please remove the AJO Push Tracking dataset if it exist in the list of event dataset in your datastream. This is a system dataset and is not meant to be configured in the datastream.

Data Collection Tag Configuration

In the browser, navigate to the Data Collection UI.
From the left panel, select Tags tab and from the list select the Tag that is configured for your application.
From the left panel, select Extensions tab.
Update the Places Launch Card to 1.3.0 or greater. No additional configuration is required.
Make sure the Adobe Experience Edge Network, Identity and Consent (optional) extensions are installed.
Make sure the Adobe Experience Edge Network is configured with the appropriate datastream which has a dataset with the placeContext field group enabled in their schema.