Get Audience Manager Contact in SDL DXA 1.4 .NET

Question

I am trying access the Audience Manager Contacts in my DXA .Net application. I have followed the steps from SDL docs and able to create contacts using CME in Web 8 and also able to synchronize the contacts with the Subscription Management table using the Synchronize end Point micro service.

I have referenced the following two DLLs in the DXA Web site project to use the Audience Manager functions

1. Sdl.AudienceManager.ContentDelivery.dll
2. Tridion.OutboundEmail.ContentDelivery.dll

When trying to instantiate the Sdl.AudienceManager.ContentDelivery.Profile.Contact object. I am getting the following exception:

Unable to determine the current Publication. Please make sure the Ambient Data Framework is running, or configure a DefaultPublicationId in the cd_audience_manager_conf.xml configuration file

I have installed the Ambient framework in the Session enabled Content Service. Is there any config file I need to add in the DXA solution as per Tridion 2013 SP1 or the discovery service will handle this?

Please help!

Edit 1

I have modified and added the cd_Audience_Manager_Conf.xml in the DXA.

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <Configuration Version="8.1">  
    <Email>
      <OpenImage>MailOpened.gif</OpenImage>
    </Email>
    <Redirect> 
      <ErrorResolvingLink>Resolve.html</ErrorResolvingLink>   
      <ErrorResolvingBinary>Empty.gif</ErrorResolvingBinary>
      <GeneralError>Error.html</GeneralError>
      <AppendTrackingInfo>false</AppendTrackingInfo>
    </Redirect>
    <AmbientData>
       <CacheDuration>300</CacheDuration>
     </AmbientData>
     <Publications>
       <Publication Id="27">      
        </Publication>
      </Publications>
  </Configuration>

Apart from that I also tried to add cd_storage_conf.xml and the jars in the bbin\Lib folder in the DXA solution

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Configuration Version="8.1">
    <Global>

        <Storages>
            <StorageBindings>
                <Bundle src="AudienceManagerDAOBundle.xml"/>
            </StorageBindings>
           <Storage Id="profiledb" Class="com.tridion.storage.persistence.JPADAOFactory" Type="persistence" dialect="MSSQL">
              <Pool CheckoutTimeout="120" IdleTimeout="120" MonitorInterval="60" Size="5" Type="jdbc"/>
              <DataSource Class="com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDataSource">
                  <Property Name="serverName" Value="WSV001704"/>
                  <Property Name="portNumber" Value="1433"/>
                  <Property Name="databaseName" Value="tridion_submgmt"/>
                  <Property Name="user" Value="TMSSMUSER"/>
                  <Property Name="password" Value="Tridion!232!"/>
              </DataSource>
            </Storage>          

          <Storage Id="trackingdb" Class="com.tridion.storage.persistence.JPADAOFactory" Type="persistence" dialect="MSSQL">
            <Pool CheckoutTimeout="120" IdleTimeout="120" MonitorInterval="60" Size="5" Type="jdbc"/>
            <DataSource Class="com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDataSource">
                <Property Name="serverName" Value="WSV001704"/>
                <Property Name="portNumber" Value="1433"/>
                <Property Name="databaseName" Value="tridion_tracking"/>
                <Property Name="user" Value="TMSPSUSER"/>
                <Property Name="password" Value="Tridion!232!"/>
            </DataSource>
          </Storage>
        </Storages>
    </Global>

    <!-- Audience Manager type mappings -->
    <ItemTypes defaultStorageId="defaultFile">
        <Item typeMapping="AudienceManagerProfile" storageId="profiledb"/>
        <Item typeMapping="AudienceManagerTracking" storageId="trackingdb"/>
    </ItemTypes>
    <License Location="c:\SDLWeb\cd_licenses.xml"/>
</Configuration>

still I am getting the same error. Is there any other work around?

Answer 1

Audience Manager needs to know the current Publication. It can do that in one of two ways:

1. Figure it out based on the current URL.
2. Read a configuration setting that you've manually set.

When looking it up based on the URL, it first tries to extract the URL from the Ambient Data Framework (taf:request:full_url claim) and then looks up the page using the GetPageMetaByURL method of the DynamicMetaRetriever class.

If any of those steps fail, it will typically log the reason (i.e. unable to read the page metadata) and then fall back to option #2: reading the DefaultPublicationId setting from cd_audience_manager_conf.xml.

If not found, it has no way of knowing the current Publication and so cannot contact the right Audience Manager standalone service.