Deprecated Audience Manager and Outbound E-mail functionality

This topic describes Audience Manager and Outbound E-mail functionality that is deprecated in SDL Web 8.5.

Outbound E-mail feature

The entire Outbound E-mail feature is deprecated.

Outbound E-mail Content Delivery (Java) API
In the com.tridion.marketingsolution.contact:
  • int id = getGroupId() and void setGroupId(int id) are deprecated; use get/set AddressBook instead.
  • Map details = getExtendedDetails() and void setExtendedDetails(Map details) are deprecated; use ExtendedDetails details = getDetails() instead. Also, there is no setDetails() as modifications are done on the returned collection from getDetails().
Audience Manager API (.NET)

The Tridion.OutboundEmail.ContentManagement namespace is deprecated; use the Tridion.AudienceManagent.API namespace which provides the same functionality.

Outbound E-mail Script Extension

The Outbound E-mail Script Extension for the VBScript/JScript templating framework is deprecated; use the .NET-based Modular Templating framework which interacts with the TOM.NET API to implement Mailings.

GetLinkBinary("tcm:uri") is deprecated

GetLinkBinary() is a method you can use in a Dreamweaver Template for Outbound E-mail to create a link to a Multimedia Component (image). Because GetLinkBinary() was renamed to GetLinkBinaryURL(), support for the old GetLinkBinary() is deprecated.