Attributes

Dynata uses attributes as the building blocks for a respondent’s profile. Clients use these same attributes to target respondents for their studies. Partners leverage filter, quota, and cell definitions in the Opportunity Registry to match their respondents to an opportunity.

Attributes are the core of matching respondents to the client studies. Conversion is dependent on the completeness of a respondent’s profile and accuracy of the opportunity targeting. This can be achieved via 3 steps – mapping, profiling, and targeting.

Mapping

To map Dynata attributes to a partner’s system, use the Respondent Gateway list-attributes and get-attribute-info endpoints.

Best Practices

The list-attributes endpoint returns the top 500 attributes sorted by client usage.

Map attributes using the list-attributes and get-attribute-info endpoints. First, focus on attributes that correlate with the partner’s system.
Partners must use the list-attributes endpoint in the production environment to complete the attributes mapping. The results in the sandbox environment are sorted arbitrarily and may contain discrepancies.
Continuously map frequently occurring targeting attributes using the get-attribute-info endpoint.

Profiling

After mapping the Dynata attributes, respondents can be created and updated using the Respondent Gateway put-respondent and put-respondent-answers endpoints. Learn more about respondent profiling here.

Inbound

Respondents can be created and updated upon entry through the Inbound URL.

Targeting

Targeting involves matching respondents to qualifying opportunities from the Opportunity Registry.

Using the attribute mapping to interpret cells and create the opportunity targeting criteria. Then matching respondents with opportunities and sending them in through the Respondent Gateway using the survey flow.

Learn more about Opportunity Targeting.

Attribute Properties

The basic properties for attributes are name, description, question, and answers.

property	description
name	Dynata attribute name.
description	Describes the attribute.
display mode	Question input type and rendering.
parent dependencies	Prerequisite questions and answers.
expiration duration	Length of time before the attribute will need to be asked again.
is active	Designate if the attribute is in use.
countries	Supported countries.
question	Question info and translations.
answers	Answer info and translations.

Restricted Attributes

Some attributes returned from the list-attributes endpoint are restricted. Restricted attributes definitions are not exposed to partners. It’s possible for a filter or quota cell to use a restricted attribute. Partners can choose to ignore opportunities that contain a restricted attribute.

Display Mode

The attribute display mode represents how a question should be rendered if presented to a respondent.

display mode	description
`single_select`, `single_select_searchable`	Accepts only one answer per question. Single selection input (radio buttons).
`multi_select`, `multi_select_searchable`	Accepts one or more answers per question. Multiple selection input (checkboxes).
`single_select_grid`	Accepts only one answer per question, radio buttons in a row; rating scale
`multi_select_grid`	Accepts one or more answers per question. Checkboxes in a row; multiple_choice_matrix.
`none`, `geo`, `zip`	Derived attribute; not rendered to respondents.

Important

Do not use put-respondent or put-respondent-answers with attributes that have a display_mode of none, geo, or zip. These attributes are auto generated based on a respondent’s attributes.

Parent Dependencies

The parent_dependencies are the prerequisite questions and answers required to update an attribute. The dependency can be for attribute as a whole, and can depend on certain attribute answers. It’s possible for an attribute to have multiple parent dependencies requirements.

Missing Dependencies

If the respondent is missing the parent_dependencies, updating the attribute will fail.

Countries

The countries property lists all countries where the attribute is supported. Each country can support a different set of attribute questions and answers.

Recommended

Partners should map attributes individually by country in order to account for potential differences.

Question & Answers

The question and answers contain the translations for each supported country and language.

The answers contains the id, supported countries, and translations for each individual answer.