What do we mean by "Met-Before Flag"?
How does Grip identify if the supplier or buyer had a meeting in the past?
How does actually "Met Before Flag" work?
How to set the Met Before Flag on the Grip dashboard
What do we mean by "Met-Before Flag"?
Met-Before Flag is a function to track meetings across different events within 1 application in. This is to understand whether the suppliers and buyers had any meetings in the past in an application.
Golden Rules
- “Met before Flag” takes into consideration [Pre-scheduled meetings + Free Flow Meetings]. In general, anything meetings in the past that have been booked in an application.
- The stronger and weaker group has no impact on the "Met Before Flag"
How does Grip identify if the supplier or buyer had a meeting in the past?
Classic Smart Scheduling Platform
Suppliers (defined by group type) use exhibitor IDs. If there is no exhibitor ID for a specific supplier - then it will default to using their Grip Thing ID (i.e. if your user has met me before - that would count as a past meeting).
Non suppliers use email.
Any2any or Restricted Any2any Smart Scheduling platform
General Rule: If your “thing Id” has met my “thing Id” . No emails no exhibitor ID are needed. It is a "thing" to "thing".
How does actually "Met Before Flag" work?
Classic Smart Scheduling Platform
| Group/Type | Name | Company Name | Exhibitor ID | ThingID | |
| Buyer | James Swingland | Grip | No Need | james@intros.at | 765345 |
| Supplier | Soulmaz Miller | Intros | X001 | soulmaz@intros.at | 439743 |
Past meeting question:
Has any buyer with the email "james@intros.at" met with anyone previously with exhibitor Id "X001"?
If so - "met_before = 1", (Yes)
if not "met_befeore = 0" (No)
Condition1 : If “met_before=1", and James has swiped on Soulmaz with the exhibitor Id "X001" >>>> meetings could be generated
Condition 2: If “met_before=1", and no swipe has occurred between James and Soulmaz "X001" >>>> No meeting will be generated.
Condition 3: Met Before Flag takes into account companies having met before.
Any2any and Restricted any2any Smart Scheduling Platform
Remember in Any2any the logic is "If your “thing Id” has met my “thing Id”. No emails no exhibitor ID are needed.
| Group/Type | Name | ThingID |
| Distributor | Lee Martin | 6666 |
| Co-producer | Jake Gonzales | 7777 |
Past meeting question:
Has Thing ID: 6666 met with Thing ID 7777 in the past?
If so - "met_before = 1", (Yes)
if not "met_befeore = 0" (No)
Condition 1 & 2 in the Classic Smart Scheduling platform applies here as well. BUT
Condition 3: Jake can meet the same person in Grip that Lee met before. Because Jake and Lee are not the same person.
How to set the Met Before Flag on the Grip dashboard
1- make sure that during the data import/integration/configuration the "Met Before Flag" requirements are applied.
2- Go to MustMeet
3- Set the platform on the "Closed Phase: Meetings are currently being scheduled"
4- Go to "Scoring Matrix"
5- Select the relevant "Preference Matrix Type"
6- Past Meetings Cutoff (UTC): Select a date and time BEFORE the first meetings were pushed from H2H to Grip.
Exp: If you generated the meetings in H2H and pushed to Grip on 20.02.2022 at 19:30 pm
The "Past Meetings Cutoff (UTC)" would be: 20.02.2022 - 19:25 (any time before 19:35)
Note: If you don't remember this time, please get in touch with the Data Science team.