AudienceRuleComponent Constructor (String, String, String)

Initializes a new instance of the AudienceRuleComponent class with the operand, operator, and content for an audience rule.

Namespace:  Microsoft.Office.Server.Audience
Assembly:  Microsoft.Office.Server (in Microsoft.Office.Server.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Sub New ( _
    leftContent As String, _
    ruleOperator As String, _
    rightContent As String _
)

'Usage
Dim leftContent As String
Dim ruleOperator As String
Dim rightContent As String

Dim instance As New AudienceRuleComponent(leftContent, _
    ruleOperator, rightContent)

public AudienceRuleComponent(
    string leftContent,
    string ruleOperator,
    string rightContent
)

Parameters

• leftContent
  Type: System.String

• ruleOperator
  Type: System.String

• rightContent
  Type: System.String

Remarks

This overloaded version of the AudienceRuleComponent class constructor initializes the public fields m_LeftContent, m_Operator, and m_RightContent with the specified values.

Examples

The following code example adds complex rules for an audience called "John and Joe Connection". This example uses AND, OR, and ( and ) operators to combine multiple rules and to group rules.

Replace servername and other strings with actual values before running the code example. Also add the following references in your Microsoft Visual Studio project:

• Microsoft.Office.Server

• Microsoft.SharePoint

• System.Web

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration;
using Microsoft.Office.Server.Audience;
using Microsoft.SharePoint;
using Microsoft.Office.Server;
using System.Web;
using System.Collections;

namespace AudienceConsoleApp
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            try
            {
                using (SPSite site = new SPSite("https://servername"))
                {
                    ServerContext context = ServerContext.GetContext(site);
                    AudienceManager AudMgr = new AudienceManager(context);

                    AudienceCollection ac = AudMgr.Audiences;
                    Audience a = null;
                    bool ruleListNotEmpty = false;

                    try
                    {
                        a = AudMgr.Audiences["John and Joe Connection"];
                    }
                    catch (AudienceArgumentException ex)
                    {
                        //your exception handling code here
                    }

                    ArrayList aRules = a.AudienceRules;
                    if (aRules == null)
                    {
                        aRules = new ArrayList();
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        ruleListNotEmpty = true;
                    }


                    try
                    {
                        //if the rule is not emply, start with a group operator 'AND' to append
                        if (ruleListNotEmpty)
                        {
                            aRules.Add(new AudienceRuleComponent(null, "AND", null));
                        }

                        AudienceRuleComponent r0 = new AudienceRuleComponent(null, "(", null);
                        aRules.Add(r0);

                        AudienceRuleComponent r1 = new AudienceRuleComponent("FirstName", "Contains", "John");
                        aRules.Add(r1);

                        AudienceRuleComponent r2 = new AudienceRuleComponent(null, "AND", null);
                        aRules.Add(r2);

                        AudienceRuleComponent r3 = new AudienceRuleComponent("WorkEmail", "Contains", "example.com");
                        aRules.Add(r3);

                        AudienceRuleComponent r4 = new AudienceRuleComponent(null, ")", null);
                        aRules.Add(r4);

                        AudienceRuleComponent r5 = new AudienceRuleComponent(null, "OR", null);
                        aRules.Add(r5);

                        AudienceRuleComponent r6 = new AudienceRuleComponent(null, "(", null);
                        aRules.Add(r6);

                        AudienceRuleComponent r7 = new AudienceRuleComponent("FirstName", "Contains", "Joe");
                        aRules.Add(r7);

                        AudienceRuleComponent r8 = new AudienceRuleComponent(null, "AND", null);
                        aRules.Add(r8);

                        AudienceRuleComponent r9 = new AudienceRuleComponent("WorkEmail", "Contains", "someexample.com");
                        aRules.Add(r9);

                        AudienceRuleComponent r10 = new AudienceRuleComponent(null, ")", null);
                        aRules.Add(r10);
                        a.AudienceRules = aRules;
                        a.Commit();
                    }
                    catch (AudienceException e)
                    {
                        //Your exception handling code here
                    }
                }
            }

            catch (Exception exception)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(exception.ToString());
                Console.Read();
            }

        }

    }
}

See Also

Reference

AudienceRuleComponent Class

AudienceRuleComponent Members

AudienceRuleComponent Overload

Microsoft.Office.Server.Audience Namespace