You use the Profiles modules to manage the collection of data on your Web site. For example, you can define what data is collected from users, and what data is exported to the Data Warehouse. You also use the Profiles modules to manage profiles, for example to change a user password or an organization administrative contact.

This section contains:

• Workflow for Profile Management. Illustrates the workflow for managing user and organization profiles, designing profile definitions, and editing site terms.
• About Profiles. Describes user profiles, organization profiles, profile definitions, and site terms, and how you work with them in Commerce Server.
• Best Practices for Business Desk Profiles. Provides important information about creating and managing your profiles.
• Creating a Site Term Group. Explains how to add new site term groups, and organize your site terms.
• Creating a Site Term. Explains how to add new site terms.
• Adding a Term to a Site Term. Explains how to add terms (values) to your site terms.
• Creating a Profile Definition. Explains how your system administrator can create generic profile definitions to meet your business needs.
• Adding a Property Group to a Profile Definition. Explains how to organize your properties by adding a property group to a profile definition.
• Adding Properties to a Profile Definition. Explains how to add new properties to profile definitions.
• Adding a Property that Maps to a Site Term. Explains how to add a site term to a profile definition and use the site term to select the value for the property to which it is associated.
• Adding Encrypted Properties to a Profile Definition. Explains how to add new profile properties that can be encrypted.
• Embedding a Profile Definition. Explains how to associate the contents of profiles by embedding a profile definition in another profile definition.
• Publishing Profile Definition Changes on Your Web Site. Explains how to synchronize profile definition changes with your Web site.
• Adding a User Profile. Explains how to add new user profiles to your Web site.
• Adding a Delegated Administrator. Explains how to add a profile for a user designated as the delegated administrator for an organization.
• Resetting a User Password. Explains how to reset a password for a registered user.
• Adding an Organization Profile. Explains how to add new organization profiles to your Web site.
• Adding a Generic Profile. Explains how to add new generic profiles to your Web site.
• Adding Users to an Active Directory Group. Explains how to add new users to an Active Directory group.
• Adding Groups to an Active Directory Group. Explains how to add Microsoft Active Directory groups to an Active Directory group.
• Managing Site Terms and Groups. Explains how to edit, organize, and delete site terms and site term groups. Also explains how to delete terms (values) from site terms.
• Managing Profile Definitions. Explains how to find, copy, and edit profile definitions, and delete profile properties.
• Managing User Profiles. Explains how to find, edit, copy, and delete user profiles.
• Managing Organization Profiles. Explains how to find, edit, copy, and delete organization profiles.
• Managing Generic Profiles. Explains how to find, edit, copy, and delete generic profiles.
• Removing Users from Active Directory Groups. Explains how to delete users and Microsoft Active Directory groups from Active Directory groups.