Whats new in Audience Manager and Outbound E-mail 2013
This section describes what's new and what has changed in Audience Manager between versions 2011 SP1 and 2013.
Audience Manager
Audience Manager ships with sample Web pages that implement a simple subscription model. The sample Web pages in the previous version stored passwords in plain text. Since it is not best practice to store passwords in plain text, in Audience Manager 2013 new utility methods have been added to the APIs so that you can encrypt passwords using one-way hash values.
The sample Web pages have been updated to use these methods and you need to install an additional JAR file (jasypt.jar) on your Presentation Server. The JAR file is available on the installation media:
- Outbound E-Mail/Presentation System/Java/Subscription/jasypt.jar
- Outbound E-Mail/Presentation System/NET/lib/jasypt.jar
- Audience Manager API (.NET).
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The Audience Manager API provides access to Audience Manager item types (Contacts and Segments) on the Content Manager. If you already have Contacts with plain text passwords, you can convert these passwords to one-way hash values using the
DigestPassword()andCheckPassword()methods in theTridion.AudienceManagement.APInamespace. - Outbound E-mail Content Delivery (Java)
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If your Web site uses Java, encrypt passwords using the
DigestPassword()andCheckPassword()methods in thecom.tridion.marketingsolution.utilitiespackage. - Outbound E-mail Content Delivery (.NET)
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If your Web site uses .NET, encrypt passwords using the
DigestPassword()andCheckPassword()methods in theTridion.OutboundEmail.ContentDelivery.Utilitiesnamespace.
Outbound Email
GetLinkBinary("tcm:uri")renamed toGetLinkBinaryURL("tcm:uri")GetLinkBinary()is a method you can use in a Dreamweaver Template for Outbound E-mail to create a link to a Multimedia Component (image).GetLinkBinary()has been renamed toGetLinkBinaryURL(). Support for the oldGetLinkBinary()is deprecated.<UseSSL>setting inOutboundEmail.xml<UseSSL>is a new setting in the<BounceProcessing>section of theOutboundEmail.xmlconfiguration file. Set<UseSSL>to true to instruct Chilkat to create an SSL connection with the mail server, otherwise false. If you do not specify a value, default Chilkat behavior applies. For example, if you set the port value to the default SSL ports (995for POP3 or993for IMAP), Chilkat will connect over SSL.<SynchronizationTimeout>setting inOutboundEmail.xml<SynchronizationTimeout>is a new optional setting in the<PresentationSide>section of theOutboundEmail.xmlconfiguration file. The setting specified the number of seconds the Synchronization service has to perform an iteration before the service is timed out.