Interaction Point Requirements

When creating automatic Interaction Points, be aware that you must also create an associated Activity Capture, Attribute Capture or Optimization Point for each one, to enable MXO to trigger these Interactions.

This is to reduce the number of unnecessary Interaction requests sent to MXO, automatically, by the SDK.

Correctly configured Interaction Points are added to the Interaction Map.

Step 1: Create any required Interaction Points

Set up Interaction Points to see all requests sent to MXO by the SDK when using Monitor.

Think of Interactions as the key steps (or elements) of the customer experience, representing the ongoing conversation between you and your customer on any of your Touchpoints.

Interaction Points are the are the means through which you can capture information about those key steps. In a mobile app, an Interaction Point represents an individual screen or context; on a web site, an individual page, and in the call center a customer's reason for calling.

You can create Interaction Points in two ways:

• In the main MXO UI. Typically, these Interaction Points are triggered programmatically by the SDK.
• Automatically, when logged in to the SDK, in Admin mode. These Interaction Points are triggered automatically by the SDK.

To create an Interaction Point in the main MXO UI

1. In MXO, choose Collect.
2. Select Interaction Points.
3. Select the Touchpoint to which you want to add an Interaction Point from the drop-down menu.
4. Click Add Interaction Point.
5. Enter the following details for your Interaction Point:
6. Click Create.

To create a automatic Interaction Point using Admin mode

1. On your device, open your app. You'll see the MXO Poker Chip on-screen.
2. Tap the Poker Chip to view the Login screen.
3. Log in using your MXO username and password.
4. Navigate to the page in your app when you want to create an Interaction Point.
5. Tap the Poker chip to enter Edit mode on the first page of the app.The Poker chip turns blue when in Edit mode.
   
   MXO automatically creates an Interaction Point for you. You can view the new Interaction Point for your mobile Touchpoint, in the main MXO UI.

Step 2: Create App Install and Reinstall Interaction Points

The Mobile SDKs are configured to trigger app install and app reinstall interactions automatically, when integrated into your app, allowing you to track when a mobile app is installed and/or reinstalled by your customers. These interactions are triggered:

• the first time a mobile app, including our SDK, is installed and opened, and
• each time a mobile app is reinstalled, as long as the SDK was integrated prior to uninstall.

To track these interactions, set up the following Interaction Points:

For iOS

For Android

Step 3: Create Last Click Attribution Interactions

The SDKs can track last click attribution in your app by automatically triggering the destination to which a user is going when they click on a link.

Use the following details:

Any links opened from the app send a formatted URL to a /MXO-click Interaction Point in MXO. The URL contains the following parameter

Whenever a user taps on link in the app, the SDK triggers the /MXO-click interaction and sends a formatted URL to the Interaction Point in MXO. The URL contains the following parameters:

• the full URL, sent as a MXO-url property
• the host, sent as a MXO-host property
• the path, sent as a MXO-path property
• any URL parameters, sent with the parameter name as a key

Example

Create a MXO-click Interaction Point that automatically assigns activity based on the URL opened by the customer.

1. Create a generic Last Click Interaction Point that uses a RegEx wildcard in the URL. For example, /MXO-click?MXO-host=*.
   
   
2. Create any relevant Attribute Capture Points for that Interaction Point. For example:
   1. UTMs, such as utm_source, utm_medium, and utm_campaign.
      
      
   2. MXO-host property captured into a new attribute, sponsorURL.
3. Create an On Load Activity Capture Point that sets the Proposition automatically at runtime, using the value captured for the sponsorURL attribute.
   
   
4. Add each sponsor as a separate Proposition with a Proposition code that matches their respective value for the MXO-host parameter.

Using a /MXO-click Interaction Point offers a more robust solution to tracking different links that are opened in the same container, avoiding the need to trigger a more generic Interaction Point every time. For example, when you use the same webview to open a variety of different links.

Step 4: Publish Your Changes

In MXO, publish your changes to push them to your live environment.

Publishing is necessary only when you want to make your configurations available in User mode. You can view and test any changes to the In the works snapshot or on the Launchpad in Preview mode, prior to publishing.

For more information, see an Introduction to Publishing.

Optional - Step 5: Create a Wildcard Interaction Point

Set up a Wildcard Interaction Point to catch all automatic and programmatic requests sent to MXO by the SDK to help you to monitor and test your configuration during initial integration.

Use the following details:

Optional - Step 6: Create a Base Interaction Point

Set up a Base Interaction Point to send Attribute Capture Points at the application level which cannot be associated with an interaction. For example, where you have a set of properties you want to capture in the customer profile without capturing any activity.

Use the following details:

After creating your Base Interaction Point, create the associated Attribute Capture Point.

Example

For information on how to send properties to a Base Interaction Point see our documentation on Github:

• iOS
• Android