Changing a Data Object

You use the Profiles resource to change the following properties of a data object:

• Display name
• Description

If you want to change the programmatic name of the data object, you must delete and then recreate the data object with the new programmatic name.

To change the display name and description of a data object

To delete a data object

To change the display name and description of a data object

1. Expand Commerce Server Manager, expand Global Resources, expand Profiles, expand Profile Catalog, expand Data Sources, expand the data source that contains the data object you want to change, expand Data Objects, right-click the data object you want to change, and then click Properties.
2. In the <data object> Properties dialog box, on the Identity tab, do the following:

   Use this	To do this
   Display Name	Edit the name for the data object. The display name can contain a maximum of 127 Unicode characters.
   Description	Edit the description for the data object. The description can contain a maximum of 127 Unicode characters.

3. Click OK.

The display name and description of the data object are changed.

Note

• You can change the display name of a data object; however, you cannot change the programmatic name of a data object.

To delete a data object

Caution

• You cannot recover a data object after you delete it.

1. Expand Commerce Server Manager, expand Global Resources, expand Profiles, expand Profile Catalog, expand Data Sources, expand the data source that contains the data object you want to delete, expand Data Objects, right-click the data object you want to delete, and then click Delete.
2. In the Delete Data Object confirmation dialog box, click Yes.

The data object is deleted from the data source.

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