User resources

The needs and interests of the site visitors are stored as User needs, interests, and preferences of site visitors can be captured explicitly using HTML input forms, or implicitly using an analysis of a user's actions on the Web site, and data from a user's non-Web interactions with the business. Visitor properties are stored in the user profile data store.

Users can be profiled or grouped into categories. For example, on an internal Web site, certain information might be appropriate for managers, while other content may be suitable for salespersons.

The Portal User Collection resource collection included with Personalization cannot currently be used to select lists of users in select content rules. The resource collection may be used to profile the user in a profiler rule. This applies to both the user resource collection which is installed with Personalization as well as any custom resource collections created with the manager class...

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