GetProfileDefinitions Method

Retrieves a set of profile definitions available to the campaigns system.

Namespace:  Microsoft.CommerceServer.Marketing
Assembly:  Microsoft.CommerceServer.Marketing.CrossTierTypes (in Microsoft.CommerceServer.Marketing.CrossTierTypes.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Function GetProfileDefinitions ( _
    profileDefinitionNames As String() _
) As XmlElement

'Usage
Dim instance As ProfileDefinitionReader
Dim profileDefinitionNames As String()
Dim returnValue As XmlElement

returnValue = instance.GetProfileDefinitions(profileDefinitionNames)

public XmlElement GetProfileDefinitions(
    string[] profileDefinitionNames
)

public:
XmlElement^ GetProfileDefinitions(
    array<String^>^ profileDefinitionNames
)

public function GetProfileDefinitions(
    profileDefinitionNames : String[]
) : XmlElement

Parameters

• profileDefinitionNames
  Type: array<System..::.String>[]()[]
  An optional array of the ProfileDefinition names to retrieve. If nullNothingnullptra null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic) or an empty string list is passed, then all profile definitions available to the campaigns system are returned, including the catalog product schema as a profile definition from Catalog System.

Return Value

Type: System.Xml..::.XmlElement
An XML document containing a set of ProfileDefinition values available.

Exceptions

Remarks

To get the catalog product schema, the user can either specify a special profile definition named, “Product”, or pass nullNothingnullptra null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic) or empty string list to get all the available profile definitions. GetProfileDefinitions internally uses the Profile system to get a ProfileDefinition and also interacts with the Catalog system to retrieve the catalog schema as a ProfileDefinition.

Permissions

• Full trust for the immediate caller. This member cannot be used by partially trusted code. For more information, see Using Libraries from Partially Trusted Code.

See Also

Reference

ProfileDefinitionReader Class

ProfileDefinitionReader Members

Microsoft.CommerceServer.Marketing Namespace