Search contacts by business foundation field value

Mark Prins

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Hello all,

I want to be able to load a specific contact from the system by a value stored in a specific business foundation field. (in this case I want to load the contact by the facebook ID)

I have found a function that I think should be able to do this, but I have no idea how it works.

Can I use the CustomerContext.Current.GetContactsByPattern(string pattern) function to search for contacts? And what would the pattern look like?

#70226

Apr 15, 2013 16:31

Michael Jensen

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Hello!

Take a look at this

http://sdk.episerver.com/commerce/1.1.2/Content/Developers%20Guide/Tutorials/Training/TrainBusinessFoundation.htm

I think this small snippet below should get you on the right track

FilterElementCollection filterElementCustomer = new FilterElementCollection();

//Or use your custom business foundation field as filter element
filterElementCustomer.Add(FilterElement.EqualElement("Email", email));

EntityObject[] sortedListCustomer = BusinessManager.List
(CustomerContact.ClassName, filterElementCustomer.ToArray());

EntityObject customer = sortedListCustomer.FirstOrDefault();

if (customer != null)
{

customer.Properties["YourCustomBusinessFoundationField"].Value = "YourCustomValue"
Mediachase.BusinessFoundation.Data.Business.BusinessManager.Update(customer);
}

#70707

Apr 27, 2013 10:51

Mark Prins

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Hi Michael,

Thanks for your reply. Using a filterelement I got it working.

var filterElement = new FilterElement("FBUserId", FilterElementType.Equal, (object)fbUserId);
var filterElementArray = new[] { filterElement };
var entityObjectArray = BusinessManager.List("Contact", filterElementArray);

if (entityObjectArray.Length == 1)
{ ... }

#70727

Apr 29, 2013 10:08

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