Changes to Audience Manager and Outbound E-mail APIs

This section describes the changes to the Audience Manager and Outbound E-mail Content Manager and Content Delivery APIs between version 2009 and version 2011.

Content Manager API name and namespace change
The Outbound E-mail Contact Management (.NET) API available in SDL Tridion 2009 has been deprecated and will no longer be supported in the next version release. The SDL Tridion 2009 functionality is available in the following namespace:
Tridion.OutboundEmail.ContentManagement
In Audience Manager and Outbound E-mail 2011, API access to Audience Manager and Outbound E-mail functionality on the Content Manager Server is available in the Audience Manager (.NET) API. The API provides access to the Audience Manager item types (Contacts and Segments) and provides functionality to perform bulk import of Contacts. The functionality is available in the following namespaces:
  • Tridion.AudienceManagement.API—contains classes that provide access to Audience Manager items on the Content Manager Server.
  • Tridion.AudienceManagement.API.Import—contains classes that enable bulk import of Contacts on the Content Manager Server.
Content Delivery APIs
The Content Delivery APIs for Outbound E-mail and Audience Manager have been extended to provide access to Segments on the presentation server.
The APIs provide access to Contact Synchronization, Segments, and Tracking (including linking) on the Content Delivery system:
  • The Outbound E-mail Content Delivery (ASP.NET) API—contains methods and properties which allow you to implement functionality on a .NET Presentation Server.
  • The Outbound E-mail Content Delivery (Java) API—contains methods and properties which allow you to implement functionality on a Java Presentation Server.