Hi there -
I use Segment to pipe my data in to c.io. When I call identify, if a user’s email has changed, it is a normal identify call, and I expect c.io to just update the email address of the user. This is what’s happening in mixpanel, for instance. But in c.io I noticed that it’s actually creating a new user, and it is not setting ID (my app’s ID), because a user already exists with that ID.
Is there some way I need to tweak these identify calls to accomodate this?
Best answer by Penny
Hey
The solution to this might depend on whether your workspace uses both id and email as an identifier (or only id) and whether your workspace settings allow the email attribute to be updated via both cio_id or id:
It sounds like your workspace settings currently is only allowing the email identifier to be updated by cio_id, which is why when you call identify to change the email, it is creating a new profile instead.
Once you’ve updated this setting in your Workspace Settings > General Workspace Settings, this should work as expected. ◡̈
I’ve also linked our help documentation on this for Segment Destinations Actions for your easy reference and this would go more into detail: https://customer.io/docs/journeys/segment-destination/#cio_id-update.
Hopefully this helps!
Hey
The solution to this might depend on whether your workspace uses both id and email as an identifier (or only id) and whether your workspace settings allow the email attribute to be updated via both cio_id or id:
It sounds like your workspace settings currently is only allowing the email identifier to be updated by cio_id, which is why when you call identify to change the email, it is creating a new profile instead.
Once you’ve updated this setting in your Workspace Settings > General Workspace Settings, this should work as expected. ◡̈
I’ve also linked our help documentation on this for Segment Destinations Actions for your easy reference and this would go more into detail: https://customer.io/docs/journeys/segment-destination/#cio_id-update.
Hopefully this helps!
Hi Penny - thanks a lot! I actually did see this before I posted, and I do I have that setting checked (per your screenshot). Could anything else be going on?
Hey
Can you please email us at win@customer.io? Please mention this thread’s URL (https://community.customer.io/data-integrations-38/updating-user-email-in-segment-creates-new-user-in-customer-io-697). Also, if you haven’t already done so, please grant us “Support Team Access” here: https://fly.customer.io/settings/privacy (see also https://customer.io/docs/privacy/#support-team-access)
We’ll be on the lookout for your email! 😊
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