How to Add a Property Group to a Profile Definition

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You can create new property groups to organize the properties in your profile definitions. For example, if you add 50 properties to a user profile definition that relate to four different categories, such as lifestyle, opinion, education, and preferences, you can create four property groups, one for each category, and arrange the properties that belong to each category in the appropriate property group. You can choose to show or hide the properties for each property group.

To add a property group to a profile definition

  1. Expand Commerce Server Manager, expand Global Resources, expand Profiles, expand Profile Catalog, expand Profile Definitions, and then click the profile definition to which you want to add a property group.

  2. In the Commerce Server Manager, in the right pane, click Add.

  3. In the Add dialog box, select Add a new group, and then click OK.

  4. In the Commerce Server Manager, in the right pane, in the Attributes section, do the following:

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    Name

    Type the programmatic name for the property group. The name can contain a maximum of 127 alphanumeric characters and the underscore (_) symbol. The name cannot contain spaces.

    Display Name

    Type a display name that contains a maximum of 127 Unicode characters.

    Description

    Type a description of the property. The description can contain a maximum of 127 Unicode characters.

  5. Click Apply.

  6. To save the profile definition, click the Save icon on the toolbar.

The profile definition is saved with the new property group. You can move properties into the group or add new properties to the group.

See Also

Other Resources

Managing Profile Properties

How to Use the Profiles Schema Manager

About the Profiles Schema Manager