Customer custom attribute

Hi,
how can i check the value of a customer custom attribute?
say i created an attribute called <Is Preferred> and its type of dropdown with "yes" and "no" values.

how can i get the value of Is Preferred attribute for a signed in customer?

thanks


ps: is it possible to search in forum topics? cant seem to find a search feature.

ulker4hire wrote:

Hi,

You can use the GetAttribute extension method from GenericAttributeExtensions class. Here is an example:

string isPreferredGenericAttributeKey = "IsPreferred";
string isPreferred = customer.GetAttribute<string>(isPreferredGenericAttributeKey);

Hope this helps!

Regards,
Hristian

thanks for the reply.
so that attribute key is the name i pick with spaces moved?
if my custom attribute name is <Is Preferred Customer> the key is "IsPreferredCustomer", right?

thanks again

I think the code Hristian posted is actually just to retrieve a generic attribute associated with the customer. If you're talking about a Custom customer attribute that can be defined from the Customer form fields tab on the Customer Settings page then it's a bit different as multiple attributes are stored in an XML format.

The XML is still stored as a generic attribute so it starts the same:

var customAttributesXml = customer.GetAttribute<string>(SystemCustomerAttributeNames.CustomCustomerAttributes)

Which should return an XML representation of the customer's custom attributes which you'll need to parse to get the one you're interested in. I haven't tried it but I'd guess that you need one of the functions in the CustomerAttributeParser so possibly something like:

var isPreferredValue = ParseValues(customAttributesXml, {customerAttributeId}).FirstOrDefault()

Where {customerAttributeId} is the integer Id of the Custom customer attribute that you created in the admin site.

You are exactly right.

The only problem here is the Id of the attribute i want.
It is impossible to know the Id if there are many custom attributes.

Is there a better way to handle this?

thank you

ulker4hire wrote:
Just edit the attribute from the admin site, it'll open a page with a url like this:

http://admin-demo.nopcommerce.com/Admin/CustomerAttribute/Edit/1

The number on the end of the url is the attribute's Id.

Alternatively you can look in the CustomerAttribute table in the database.

Hi,

does anyone know if there is a way for the "(optional)" after Phone number to be removed in the checkout stage?

Thanks,
Rachel.

RachelJ wrote:
All text can be edited from the string resources tab on the appropriate language page, just search for the value you want to change.