AutomaticContactMerger Class

Class for automatic contact merging. Merges similar contacts together - can merge site contacts based on given columns, then global contacts based on given columns, then merge those two together.

Inheritance Hierarchy

System.Object
  CMS.OnlineMarketing.AutomaticContactMerger

Namespace: CMS.OnlineMarketing
Assembly: CMS.OnlineMarketing (in CMS.OnlineMarketing.dll) Version: 8.2.23

Syntax

public class AutomaticContactMerger : IEquatable<AutomaticContactMerger>

The AutomaticContactMerger type exposes the following members.

Constructors

	Name	Description
Public method	AutomaticContactMerger(IEnumerable<String>, Boolean, Boolean)	Sets custom automatic merging of contacts based on same contact columns.
Public method	AutomaticContactMerger(IEnumerable<String>, String, String)	Sets custom automatic merging of contacts based on same contact columns.

Methods

	Name	Description
Protected method	AllowMergeToGlobal	Decides whether contacts should be merged to a global contact or not.
Protected method	AllowMergeWithinSite	Decides whether contacts should be merged within a site or not.
Public method	ContactIsMergedByColumn	Checks if automatic contact merging is based on given contact column.
Protected method	CreateGlobalContact	Creates a global version of given contact.
Public method	Equals	Compares object with another for equality.
Protected method	GetWhereCondition	Gets where condition used to get contacts similar to given one (without site ID).
Protected method	MergeGlobals	Merges global contacts to a best fitting based on CMSSelectGlobalContactBy global setting.
Protected method	MergeWithinSite	Merges contacts within a site. Decides to which one to merge by CMSContactForVisitor site setting.
Public method	Run	Runs the merge itself. Merges contact with contacts with same values in columns specified in sameColumns parameter.

Extension Methods

	Name	Description
Public Extension Method	AsValue	Converts object to a query value which can be used as a query parameter (Defined by QueryExtensions.)
Public Extension Method	GetAPIString	Gets the string by the specified resource key (Defined by CoreExtensions.)
Public Extension Method	GetString	Gets the string by the specified resource key (Defined by CoreExtensions.)
Public Extension Method	ToBoolean	Returns the boolean representation of an object or default value if not. (Defined by CoreExtensions.)
Public Extension Method	ToDateTime	Returns the DateTime representation of an object or default value if not. (Defined by CoreExtensions.)
Public Extension Method	ToDouble	Returns the double representation of an object or default value if not. (Defined by CoreExtensions.)
Public Extension Method	ToGuid	Returns the Guid representation of an object or default value if not. (Defined by CoreExtensions.)
Public Extension Method	ToInteger	Returns the integer representation of an object or default value if not. (Defined by CoreExtensions.)
Public Extension Method	ToString	Returns the string representation of an object or default value if not. (Defined by CoreExtensions.)