Transformations
Freshpaint supports two uses for transformations
Standard mappings are used to re-format the data you send to Freshpaint into the structure that a destination accepts and assigns special meaning to. For example, you can use transformations to rename your add_to_cart event that you're sending to Freshpaint into Facebook or Pinterest's AddToCart event.
You can use transformations to modify the data Freshpaint sends to destinations in order to match historical data or remove sensitive information before they are sent to a destination.
Use this operation to rename the event. For example, if you have an event named order_complete, but you want this to be named OrderCompleted in a destination, you can use this operation.
You can only rename an event once. If you try to add two "Rename Event" operations to a given event + destination combination, you will receive an error.
You can not use this operation for transformations that do not target an event.
This would lead to you renaming every single event going to a specific destination.
Use this operation to convert between text, number, and true/false values of a property.
If a value cannot be converted to the desired type, it is left untouched.
When converting a property into a number, we leave everything that is not text untouched. For text, we attempt to parse it as a decimal value, if it has characters that are non-numeric, it fails.
Initial Value | Initial Type | Result Value | Result Type |
| Text |
| Number |
| Text |
| Number |
| Text |
| Text |
| Number |
| Number |
| Null |
| Null |
| Text |
| Text |
| Text |
| Text |
When converting a property's value to text, we leave null and text values as-is, but convert objects, arrays, numbers and true/false values. For objects and arrays, we json-encode them without modifying the sub-element's types. For numbers and true/false values, we simply convert them to text as you'd expect.
Initial Value | Initial Type | Result Value | Result Type |
| True/False |
| Text |
| Number |
| Text |
| Null |
| Null |
| Text |
| Text |
| Object |
| Text (json-encoded) |
| Array |
| Text (json-encode) |
When converting a property's value to True/False, all values besides the text values t, f, true and false (case insensitive) are let as-is.
Note: the numerical values of 0 and 1 are not converted to false or true
Initial Value | Initial Type | Result Value | Result Type |
| Text |
| True/False |
| Text |
| True/False |
| Text |
| Text |
| Text |
| True/False |
| Text |
| True/False |
| Text |
| Text |
| True/False |
| True/False |
| True/False |
| True/False |
| Number |
| Number |
| Number |
| Number |
Use these operations to convert the value of a property to upper or lower case. Useful for normalizing email addresses, or converting a currency property from usd to USD to match historical data.
Use this operation to delete an event property. This is often useful if you want to remove sensitive data from flowing into a third party destination.
From the transformation dashboard, you can view and edit your existing transformations, as well as launch the wizard to guide you through creating a new transformation.
Transformations are grouped into sets based on their Transformation Type, Freshpaint Event and Destination.
You can launch the wizard to create a new transformation by clicking the button in the top right.
Expand the transformation set you want to modify by clicking on it. If you just created a new transformation via the wizard, it will already be opened.
2. Click the + button and choose the operation you want to apply. See above for operation descriptions.
Expand the transformation set that contains the operation you want to modify by clicking on it. If you just created a new transformation via the wizard, it will already be opened.
Click on the operation you want to delete or modify. It will highlight and show a pencil icon as you hover over it.
From here you can either change the attributes and click "Save" or delete the operation by clicking "delete."
You can delete an entire set of transformations by clicking on the trash icon on the right side of any transformation set.
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