If a campaign diagram references a link node when you execute or schedule a campaign with Campaign Studio in SAS Marketing Automation 4.4, you can either have performance degradation or have incorrect counts returned.

If the link node's cell is an 'On Change' cell, then executing the campaign will execute the SQL for the entire linked diagram. However, SAS Marketing Automation ignores the new table and uses the data from the original cell. This scenario causes performance degradation. The "On Change" cell has counts, but degradation occurs because the SQL was run previously and . does not need to be rerun. No workaround exists for this degradation. However, the counts that are returned will be correct.

If the link node's cell is a 'Dynamic' cell, the same process occurs but it returns the original count, which might be incorrect. A dynamic cell should execute the diagram and return the new counts. You can avoid this problem when you link to a dynamic cell by executing the linked diagram before you run your campaign.

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A fix for this issue for SAS Marketing Automation 4.4 is available at: