We need to talk about requiresPeriodicRefresh. This optional attribute is present on a number of transform primitives, but the full extent of the documentation for it consists of one sentence: This true or false value indicates whether the transform logic should be reevaluated every evening as pa…

Hey @sup3rmark , After talking with a few people, here is what I have for you. I will update the documentation with this information as well. [image] Mark Corsillo: What is the default for requiresPeriodicRefresh, true or false? The default value is false. The flag is set to true on Transfo…

An important question here as well is how this works with nested transforms, considering both cases of nesting transforms through reference transforms and nesting transforms by directly defining the child transforms. And taking this into account, why would this attribute only be documented on some …

[image] Angelo Mekenkamp: of nesting transforms through reference transforms and nesting transforms by directly defining the child transforms. This was designed specifically for those cases where you are evaluating against now and you want it to get evaluated daily and not only when account a…

[image] Tyler Mairose: Manual and time based via nextProcessing shouldn’t care about requiredPeriodicRefresh. They will both refresh the identity, regardless of the requiresPeriodicRefresh being true/false. I’ve updated my response here based upon internal responses I’ve received.

Thank you @cpatel for your reply, but your reply does not address the point I am making regarding nesting. My point is regarding nesting. To be more specific, suppose I have an identity profile mapping pointing to transform A (for example a lookup transform), and this transform A has child transfo…

[image] Angelo Mekenkamp: To be more specific, suppose I have an identity profile mapping pointing to transform A (for example a lookup transform), and this transform A has child transforms B and C. Suppose that transform B is just an account attribute, but C is a date based transform comparing …

@tyler_mairose , I have a follow-up question, as I am seeing conflicting information. Since the aforementioned flag is configured on a transform, does this mean that if at least one transform used in an identity attribute mapping has this flag set to true, then all identities assigned to the given …

[Going Crazy Will Ferrell GIF] Did something change with requiresPeriodicRefresh, @tyler_mairose ? I know that I definitely did have this in transforms at some point, but it seems to have… disappeared? And I can’t re-add it? When I try to add "requiresPeriodicRefresh": true to a static transform no…

requiresPeriodicRefresh - strangely undocumented?

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sup3rmark (Mark Corsillo) August 27, 2025, 8:50pm 10

Oh. Nevermind. It’s because I added the line in the wrong spot! It needs to be part of the attributes object, not in the root of the transform!

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requiresPeriodicRefresh - changes and wrong documentation

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