Commerce Server Blog

In recent commerce server training, new commerce server developers have raised quite good number of questions which has triggered me to create more blogs in next few weeks. One of the question they have asked is – “I would like to give 50% discount to a corporate from a particular city”. Their perception is that the targeting will work with only UserObject profile and they have some work around to implement this functionality.

Commerce server provides us functionality to target all profile objects i.e., we can able to target a discount or advertisement to a user based on his profile properties like credit card, address or organization profile. When you install commerce server, by default, you can able to see only userobject and targeting context in the targeting dropdown.

If you want to show other profile objects in field dropdown – follow below steps.

1. Open Marketing Manager

2. From left pane, under views -> click on “Expressions”.

3. From left pane, under tasks -> click on “Set targeting profiles”

4. A popup opens. All available profiles are shown on left side list box and already targeted profiles are shown on right side list box.

5. Use Add button to add a profile from profile list box to targeted list box and use remove button to add a profile from targeted list box to profile list box. Use remove all button to remove all profiles from targeted list box.

The student query can be easily achieved by targeting organization profile.

	If you try to save the window without selecting any profile under targeted list box – the application throws following error – “You must specify at least one profile in the targeted profiles list.”.
	If you try to remove a profile but it was used by another target expression the application will throw following error – “The Expression Category object cannot be deleted because another Expression object depends on it.”