I'm looking to determine whether it's possible via visitor API to be able to find out all visitor ID's.
In the code examples below, [your mcorgid here] is your company's marketing cloud organization id. If you do not know this then you need to contact Adobe Client Care to get it.
getMarketingCloudVisitorID - Get the Marketing Cloud Visitor ID (mid= param)
var visitor = Visitor.getInstance("[your mcorgid here]#AdobeOrg")
var mcvid = visitor.getMarketingCloudVisitorID();
getAnalytcisVisitorID - get legacy visitor id (aid= if applicable)
var visitor = Visitor.getInstance("[your mcorgid here]#AdobeOrg")
var aid = visitor.getAnalyticsVisitorID();
getCustomerIDs - get all customer IDs
var visitor = Visitor.getInstance("[your mcorgid here]#AdobeOrg");
var customerIDs = visitor.getCustomerIDs();
s_fid - Fallback ID
There is no built-in method for retrieving this, but you can use AA's s.c_r() cookie reading utility function, or any other cookie reading method you have to look for the s_fid cookie. (sidenote: I do not recommend using DTM's _satellite.readCookie()method. It only looks for cookies on the current page's full (not root) domain, and there is no way to change that. Since AA and most other things usually set on root domain, it makes _satellite.readCookie() unreliable in practice).
var fid = s.c_r('s_fid');
Use Adobe datawarehouse and extract Experience Cloud ID. Assuming you know how to use the API already, here is an easy report to try
report_definition = ReportDefinition(
dimensions="marketingcloudvisitorid",
metrics="visits",
date_from=insertdate,
date_to=insertdate,
source="warehouse"
)
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Why do I want this?
I'm trying to get a unique identifier from my user which I can connect to database records. There are reasons I don't want to use the Email as the identifier. I read that SUB claim isn't supported with B2C, and to use OID in it's place.
Steps I've Taken
So, I've set up that both of my policies return Object ID on Azure B2C:
I'm using individual SignIn and SignUp policies at the moment, and I get all of the claims back, including the email claim which I specified I wanted to be returned. I cannot however find a claim related to OID or SUB.
User.Claims
Nets me the following results:
The single breadcrumb of hope that I have found is this claim:
Type: http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/nameidentifier
Value: Not supported currently. Use oid claim.
Questions
Have I missed some additional step that you need to perform to retrieve this particular claim?
Has anyone had any success retrieving an OID or SUB from Azure B2C?
Well, this is embarrassing, I must have looked over this line about 30 times and not noticed...
I was retrieving the OID token, it's claim type was:
http://schemas.microsoft.com/identity/claims/objectidentifier
As can be clearly seen in my provided screenshots. I'll leave this question up as, the schema may throw someone else off.
I struggled with this for a little while and this post helped me.
To update things with some code, the below will obtain the object identifier value (unique user id in Azure)
User.FindFirst("http://schemas.microsoft.com/identity/claims/objectidentifier").Value
Thanks for pointing out the differences in the schema/types!
If you are using the Microsoft.Identity.Web package there is now a ClaimsPrincipalExtensions class that provides an extension method, so that you can simply use:
// using Microsoft.Identity.Web;
User.GetObjectId();
This uses the oid or http://schemas.microsoft.com/identity/claims/objectidentifier claim.
Since the links above are broken and this is something that I really struggled to find a working example of, here is a code fragment of what I ended up using;
using System.IdentityModel.Tokens.Jwt;
...
string oid;
string pTokenInput = Request.Headers["x-ms-token-aad-id-token"].ToString();
var lJWTHandler = new JwtSecurityTokenHandler();
if (lJWTHandler.CanReadToken(pTokenInput)
{
var lToken = lJWTHandler.ReadJwtToken(pTokenInput);
if (lToken.Payload.ContainsKey("oid"))
oid = lToken.Payload["oid"].ToString();
}
Hopefully, this will help someone else...
It seems that you do not necessarily need object-identifier here.
When debugging, I see that the value of object-identifier is mapped to nameidentifier
Which is accessible with the built-in constant NameIdentifier:
var identity = authState.User.Identity as System.Security.Claims.ClaimsIdentity;
var userId = identity.FindFirst(System.Security.Claims.ClaimTypes.NameIdentifier).Value;
I want to be able to use the AppReceiptId from the result of CurrentApp.GetAppReceiptAsync() and tie it to a username in my backend service, to verify that the user has actually purchased the app.
I know I'm supposed to use CurrentAppSimulator in place of CurrentApp, but CurrentAppSimulator.GetAppReceiptAsync() always returns a different, random value for AppReceiptId. This makes it difficult to test with my service.
Is there a way to make it always return the same value, other than just using a hardcoded one? I'm worried that when I replace CurrentAppSimulator with CurrentApp and submit it to the store, it won't behave the way I expect it to. In the real world, the AppReceiptId won't ever change, right?
The Code I use to get AppReceiptId:
var receiptString = await CurrentAppSimulator.GetAppReceiptAsync();
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.LoadXml(receiptString);
var ReceiptNode = (from s in doc.ChildNodes
where s.NodeName == "Receipt"
select s).Single();
var AppReceiptNode = (from s in ReceiptNode.ChildNodes
where s.NodeName == "AppReceipt"
select s).Single();
var idNode = (from s in AppReceiptNode.Attributes
where s.NodeName == "Id"
select s).Single();
string id = idNode.NodeValue.ToString();
id will always be some random Guid.
CurrentApp.GetAppReceiptAsync().Id is a unique ID for the actual purchase. Although it does technically represent a unique purchase made by a single Windows ID, it doesn't represent the user themselves and I don't think there's any guarantee on the durability of that ID.
Would you be better suited using the Windows Live SDK to track the actual user identity across devices?
At any rate, to answer your original question, no I don't believe there's any way to make it return the same ID all the time. The only logical place for that functionality would be in the WindowsStoreProxy.xml file, and I don't see anything in the schema that would allow you to specify this information.
Question
How do I return different results for the same resource?
Details
I have been searching for some time now about the proper way to build a RESTful API. Tons of great information out there. Now I am actually trying to apply this to my website and have run into a few snags. I found a few suggestions that said to base the resources on your database as a starting point, considering your database should be structured decently. Here is my scenario:
My Site:
Here is a little information about my website and the purpose of the API
We are creating a site that allows people to play games. The API is supposed to allow other developers to build their own games and use our backend to collect user information and store it.
Scenario 1:
We have a players database that stores all player data. A developer needs to select this data based on either a user_id (person who owns the player data) or a game_id (the game that collected the data).
Resource
http://site.com/api/players
Issue:
If the developer calls my resource using GET they will receive a list of players. Since there are multiple developers using this system they must specify some ID by which to select all the players. This is where I find a problem. I want the developer to be able to specify two kinds of ID's. They can select all players by user_id or by game_id.
How do you handle this?
Do I need two separate resources?
Lets say you have a controller name 'Players', then you'll have 2 methods:
function user_get(){
//get id from request and do something
}
function game_get(){
//get id from request and do something
}
now the url will look like: http://site.com/api/players/user/333, http://site.com/api/players/game/333
player is the controller.
user/game are the action
If you use phil sturgeon's framework, you'll do that but the url will look like:
http://site.com/api/players/user/id/333, http://site.com/api/players/game/id/333
and then you get the id using : $this->get('id');
You can limit the results by specifying querystring parameters, i.e:
http://site.com/api/players?id=123
http://site.com/api/players?name=Paolo
use phil's REST Server library: https://github.com/philsturgeon/codeigniter-restserver
I use this library in a product environment using oauth, and api key generation. You would create a api controller, and define methods for each of the requests you want. In my case i created an entirely seperate codeigniter instance and just wrote my models as i needed them.
You can also use this REST library to insert data, its all in his documentation..
Here is a video Phil threw together on the basics back in 2011..
http://philsturgeon.co.uk/blog/2011/03/video-set-up-a-rest-api-with-codeigniter
It should go noted, that RESTful URLs mean using plural/singular wording e.g; player = singular, players = all or more than one, games|game etc..
this will allow you to do things like this in your controller
//users method_get is the http req type.. you could use post, or put as well.
public function players_get(){
//query db for players, pass back data
}
Your API Request URL would be something like:
http://api.example.com/players/format/[csv|json|xml|html|php]
this would return a json object of all the users based on your query in your model.
OR
public function player_get($id = false, $game = false){
//if $game_id isset, search by game_id
//query db for a specific player, pass back data
}
Your API Request URL would be something like:
http://api.example.com/player/game/1/format/[csv|json|xml|html|php]
OR
public function playerGames_get($id){
//query db for a specific players games based on $userid
}
Your API Request URL would be something like:
http://api.example.com/playerGames/1/format/[csv|json|xml|html|php]
I found the following difference between the old VBScript API and the .Net API:
In the old VBScript API it's possible to invoke "TDSE.getObject" to retrieve a Tridion object passing by the webdav path, an integer to select how to open it (read only, read and write, etc) and the ID of the publication where there is the exact element of the blueprint we want.
In the new .Net API all I found was "Engine.GetObject" but it only receives the TCM ID or the webdav path of an element.
Our scenario is the following; in the old VBScript code, this overload of the getObject method was used to avoid some permission issues detected while using TCM IDs instead of the webdav paths and because it's much more handful when you need to copy the code between different environments (see DEV, PREPROD and PROD for example), avoiding changing TCM IDs.
So my questions are:
Is there and overload like the old one in the new .Net API?
If not, is there a way of retrieving items by webdav keeping in mind that some of them could be localized and changed from their parent? (the old way works with this, if you send the root webdav path it will retrieve local objects even if their names aren't exactly the same as the parents)
Thank you!
Do you want to be able to use the webdav url of the top-level item, and specify the publication id from which to get the item?
I would create an extension method on Engine that does this for you:
public static T GetObject<T>(this Engine engine, string webDavUrl, int publicationId)
where T : IdentifiableObject
{
[logic to retreive the item and then if needed
get the correct tcm uri and get the intended item]
return item as T;
}
However, this is quite an expensive operation since you get two objects instead of one. So I dont know if I would use this method very often.
Here some samples
IdentifiableObject item = engine.GetObject(new TcmUri("tcm:5-677"));
//will give you the latest approved version in the publication 5.
IdentifiableObject item = engine.GetObject(new TcmUri("tcm:5-677-v0"));
//will give you the WF or Editable version.
TcmUri uri = new TcmUri("tcm:5-677");
uri.PublicationId = 6;
IdentifiableObject item = engine.GetObject(uri);
//will give you the latest approved version in the publication 6.
Engine.GetObject has 4 overloaded method.
GetObject(Session, string)
GetObject(string)
GetObject(TcmUri)
GetObject(Item)
You can check the Tom.Net Api for more details.
Actually, using Engine.GetObject Method (String) should work.
public virtual IdentifiableObject GetObject(
string itemUriOrWebDavUrl
)
You can do something in this way:-
Get the Object based on WebDav URL
Get the TCM ID from this object
Based on your publication, modified your TCM ID accordingly and do your stuff
OR
Try something this way too:-
Repository testRepository = (Repository)session.GetObject("tcm:0-2-1");
Component testComponent = (Component)testRepository.GetObject(webdavURL); //Assuming actual TCM ID is "tcm:1-3"
Console.WriteLine(testComponent.Id); // should show "tcm:2-3"
// Do Your Other Stuff
how can I get all accounts of am employee?
In the "Siebel Object Interaces Reference" I found an example, how to get all industries of an account:
var myAccountBO = TheApplication().GetBusObject("Account");
var myAccountBC = myAccountBO.GetBusComp("Account");
var myAssocBC = myAccountBC.GetMVGBusComp("Industry");
So I would like to do something like:
var myEmployeeBO = TheApplication().GetBusObject("Employee");
var myEmployeeBC = myAccountBO.GetBusComp("Employee");
var myAssocBC = myAccountBC.GetMVGBusComp("Account");
But I get an error
Semantic Warning around line 23:No such predefined property Account in class BusComp[Employee].MVGFields.
I can see in Tools that there is no Multi Value Link called "Account" in Business Component "Employee", so I can actually understand the error message.
So I wonder how I can get all accounts of an employee.
I found the Business Component "User" which has a Multi Value Link to "Organisation" and another link "User/Account".
Is this what I am looking for?
How can I know? Where is documentation which tells me about the semantics of links? (Is this described in "Siebel data model reference"? I cannot download this document, although I have signed in...) This link could also link a user to the organization it belongs to.
If one of these links IS what I am looking for, what would be the way to go to get the "User" Business Component of a corresponding "Employee" Business Component?
Many questions of a Siebel newb...Thanks for your patience.
Nang. An easy way to approach this (and to learn it) is to figure out how you'd do it in the UI. Then move onto figuring out how to do the same thing in script.
When you say, "get all account of an employee," do you really mean get all accounts where a particular employee is on the account team? In the UI, that would be done by going to: Accounts > All Accounts Across Organizations, and querying for that specific user in the "Account Team" multi-value field.
From that same view, go to Help > About View in the application menu. You'll see in the popup that the view uses the Account business object and the Account business component. A quick examination of the applet you queried on will show you that the "Account Team" field on the applet is really the "Sales Rep" field on the Account business component. Here's how to mimic what we did in the UI, in script:
var boAccount = TheApplication().GetBusObject("Account");
var bcAccount = boAccount.GetBusComp("Account");
bcAccount.SetViewMode(AllView); // like All .. Across Orgs
bcAccount.ClearToQuery();
bcAccount.SetSearchSpec("Sales Rep", "NANG");
bcAccount.ExecuteQuery();
Then you can walk through the list of accounts and do something with each one like this:
// for each account
for (var bIsRowActive = bcAccount.FirstRecord();
bIsRowActive; b = bcAccount.NextRecord())
{
// do something here
}
I hope you're enjoying Siebel.