Changing a Data Member

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

  • Display name
  • Description

To change the programmatic name of the data member, you must delete the data member and then recreate it with the new programmatic name.

To change the display name and description of a data member

To delete a data member

To change the display name and description of a data member

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  • You can change the display name of a data member; however, you cannot change the programmatic name of a data member.
  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 that contains the data member you want to change, expand Data Objects, and then click the data object that contains the data member you want to change.
  2. In the data member list, right-click the data member you want to change, and then click Properties.
  3. In the <data member> Properties dialog box, on the General tab, do the following:
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    Display Name Edit the name for the data member. The display name can contain a maximum of 127 Unicode characters.
    Description Edit the description for the data member. The description can contain a maximum of 127 Unicode characters.
  4. Click OK.

To delete a data member

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  • You cannot recover a data member 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 that contains the data member you want to delete, expand Data Objects, and then click the data object that contains the data member you want to delete.
  2. In the data member list, right-click the data member you want to delete, and then click Delete.
  3. In the Delete Data Member confirmation dialog box, click Yes.

The data member is deleted from the data source.

See Also

About the Profiles Resource

Creating a New Data Source in the Profiles Resource

Adding a New Data Object in the Profiles Resource

Adding a New Data Member in the Profiles Resource

Creating a Profile Definition with Two Data Sources

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