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Calculate Contacts' Ages
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Goal
To calculate the current biological age of your contacts, based on their date of birth.
Background Information
An operation is a type of profile-based automation. An operation consists of expression language applied to a profile attribute with the data type string, number or date. Use an operation to extract or modify data stored in an attribute.
Procedure
In Administration, create a new custom user attribute with the name CurrentAge. The data type is Number.
In Automation, create a new profile-based automation with the type Operation.
The target attribute is CurrentAge.
The operation has the following expression.${ecm:age(date.today,user.DateOfBirth)}
Click the Save button.
Select the profile-based automation and click the Activate button.
⇒ The profile-based automation is now active.Click the Apply Automations button.
⇒ Engage applies the automation to all contacts in the system. This can take a long time. An email notifies you when the automation is finished.