Hi,

I have instlled FP1. Added marketing resource,catelog and marketing
webservices to my site..

Then as instructed, i have edited web.config and changed the discount
cache from "discounts" to "MarketingDiscounts" so that I can use the
Discount Manager for processing discounts.

Then on the home page of my site, i tried to get the discount content by
using the follwing code
=======================
CommerceContext ctx = CommerceContext.Current;
Profile userProfile = null;
bool isLoggedOn = ctx.AuthenticationInfo.IsAuthenticated();

if (isLoggedOn)
{
// Extract the user's profile for the Campaign system to
// decide if the user should be targeted for a given ad.

userProfile = ctx.UserProfile;
}
//check for the profile


// Get the Discount

// Create a targeting profile

// ctx is still active

// Get a ContentSelector and set its properties
ContentSelector csoDiscount =
ctx.TargetingSystem.SelectionContexts["discounts"].GetSelector();
csoDiscount.TraceMode = true;
csoDiscount.ItemsRequested = 1;

if(null != userProfile)
{
csoDiscount.Profiles.Add("User", userProfile);
}


// Get the content using CS2002 Content Selection Framework
StringCollection discountPayload = csoDiscount.GetContent();
foreach (string discountItem in discountPayload)
{
discountLabel.Text = discountLabel.Text + discountItem.ToString() + "";
}
==================================

This works when i set the discount cache in web.config to "discounts". But
when i change it to "marketingDiscounts", it doesnt work and gives me the
following error

================
Component Execution failed for component[0x0] hr: 0x80004005 ProgID:
Commerce.CSFInitPipeline.1 Dictionary error: Value for key 'templates' in
dictionary 'Advertising cache' missing (expected a variant of type 9)
==============================

Could anybody please tell me whats wrong? I read in another related post
that there is a patch from MS for a similar issue. Is that the case here
also?

Or is it some configuration issue?

Thanks In Advance,
Geo

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This is a well-documented limitation of FP1 - the "CSF Display" of
discounts is not supported when using the FP1 marketing system schema (the
schema for display properties and targeting information is not there).

Expect that to supported in Commerce Server 2006.

-djm
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Hi,

I have instlled FP1. Added marketing resource,catelog and marketing
webservices to my site..

Then as instructed, i have edited web.config and changed the discount
cache from "discounts" to "MarketingDiscounts" so that I can use the
Discount Manager for processing discounts.

Then on the home page of my site, i tried to get the discount content by
using the follwing code
=======================
CommerceContext ctx = CommerceContext.Current;
Profile userProfile = null;
bool isLoggedOn = ctx.AuthenticationInfo.IsAuthenticated();

if (isLoggedOn)
{
// Extract the user's profile for the Campaign system to
// decide if the user should be targeted for a given ad.

userProfile = ctx.UserProfile;
}
//check for the profile


// Get the Discount

// Create a targeting profile

// ctx is still active

// Get a ContentSelector and set its properties
ContentSelector csoDiscount =
ctx.TargetingSystem.SelectionContexts["discounts"].GetSelector();
csoDiscount.TraceMode = true;
csoDiscount.ItemsRequested = 1;

if(null != userProfile)
{
csoDiscount.Profiles.Add("User", userProfile);
}


// Get the content using CS2002 Content Selection Framework
StringCollection discountPayload = csoDiscount.GetContent();
foreach (string discountItem in discountPayload)
{
discountLabel.Text = discountLabel.Text + discountItem.ToString() + "";
}
==================================

This works when i set the discount cache in web.config to "discounts". But
when i change it to "marketingDiscounts", it doesnt work and gives me the
following error

================
Component Execution failed for component[0x0] hr: 0x80004005 ProgID:
Commerce.CSFInitPipeline.1 Dictionary error: Value for key 'templates' in
dictionary 'Advertising cache' missing (expected a variant of type 9)
==============================

Could anybody please tell me whats wrong? I read in another related post
that there is a patch from MS for a similar issue. Is that the case here
also?

Or is it some configuration issue?

Thanks In Advance,
Geo

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