How to identify users by something other than key in the UI
I'm using the user's ID as my key when initializing the SDK. Is there a way to add users to a group or whitelist by something other than this key? For example, I want to search for the user's email in the UI and have it add their user ID to the whitelist.
It's hard to look at a whitelist of random IDs and say "oh I'm in this whitelist" without showing some associated metadata like email, name, etc.I tried adding attributes but these don't seem to appear anywhere in the UI
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Hi Brandon, first, apologies for missing this post! To answer your question, we do need to put an ID in for the whitelist. Two thoughts:
1) Unfortunately, we overload the term attributes, and your link references using attributes to target users using key/value pairs at runtime. Those we refer to as custom attributes are used for targeting using rules and never make their way back to Split. Identify attributes are used to associate metadata with an ID. This article describes the difference in more detail. Here's a link to the docs for using the Admin API to add metadata to a key.
2) Segments might help here. I understand that's not quite the same thing and addresses a somewhat different use case, but I thought I'd bring it up to think about.
dave
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