In SAS Customer Intelligence Studio, you might see incorrect counts (or example, in Limit, Split ,or Prioritize nodes) when you use static Link nodes in a campaign. This problem happens when you perform steps similar to the following:

1. Create a campaign (for example, a campaign called Layer1) that contains a Select node and a Cell node.


2. Make the Cell node available for linking and clear the check box for the property Use the most current data when referenced by a link. Then, execute, save, and close the campaign.


3. Create another campaign (for example, a campaign called Layer2) that contains a Link node that points to the Cell node in Layer1 and to another Cell node.


4. Make the Cell node available for linking and clear the check box for the property Use the most current data when referenced by a link. Then, execute, save, and close the campaign.


5. Create a third campaign (Layer3) with a Link node that is linked to the Cell node in Layer2. Then, add the following types of nodes: Limit, Prioritize, or Process. When you execute the campaign in Layer3, the counts are updated properly.


6. Change the selection criteria in campaign Layer1. Then, execute and save the campaign, but keep it open.

When you clear and update counts for Layer3, the Limit node calculates a certain percentage (for example, 10%) of the counts from Layer1, but it does not calculate counts from Layer2. The same issue occurs with the Split and Prioritize nodes, as demonstrated in the following example:

The Link node still contains the counts from Layer2, as expected.

The incorrect behavior is introduced when you have enabled the following Java arguments:

To work around this issue, save and close all three Layer campaigns. Then, when you clear and update counts for Layer3, the counts are correct.

Click the Hot Fix tab in this note to access the hot fix for this issue.

Operating System and Release Information

A fix for this issue for SAS Marketing Automation 6.5 is available at: