Last Traffic Soufce: "Offline Sources"

Hello,

We are creating a Workflow that let us track Traffic Sources and translate it into “our language”. I stumble upon a bucket of Contacts that we want to set “event” as their Latest Traffic Source whenever we make an Import and use specific naming convention to fetch them. However as I was testing, I uploaded a contact’s data through an Import and was expecting for Latest Traffic Source to Update to “Offline Source” and Drill-down 1 to “IMPORT”. However this did not happen. It appears that this values only update for when the contact is created.

Any reasoning behind this? Would appreaciate any insights!

Hi @galvanA81,

This is not documented well, but the latest traffic source does not update reliably for imported contacts. It’s a property meant to track traffic sources, not offline sources / imports.

Offline isn’t even mentioned in the table in this article anymore: Understand Original and Latest traffic source properties

With this note referring to offline methods:


To understand how records were created in HubSpot, including offline methods, refer to the list of change source values or record source property instead.


If you want to track touchpoints like a recent webinar, I’d recommend creating a custom property for that an update that via import or workflow.

Best regards