How to get Discount Start and End Date from Commerce Server?

Question

I am trying to retrieve the start and end date of a discount using Microsoft Commerce Server, server side code. How can this be achieved? The only data I am stuck with is the promo code "TEST". There are not a lot of code samples on how I can just create the Discount object or CampaignItem object and set the promo code to retrieve its properties. Please help.

Answer 1

The following code snippet demonstrates how to get the StartDate and EndDate for a Commerce Server Discount. This assumes you are using the Commerce Server 2007 API and that you know the ID of the discount you want the dates from.

//The discount id we want to get dates from.
var discountId = 12;//Set to your ID.

//Configure the Commerce Server site name.
var siteName = "StarterSite";

//We need a MarketingContext instance so we can access the marketing API. 
var mc = MarketingContext.Create(siteName, null, AuthorizationMode.NoAuthorization);

//Get our discount.
var discount = (Discount)mc.CampaignItems.GetCampaignItem(discountId);

//Voila.  Start and End dates.
var startDate = discount.StartDate;
var endDate = discount.EndDate;

Note: The MarketingContext.Create overload, returns a MarketingContext instance that utilises the marketing system management API in local mode. For more information on these modes, see Understanding the Different Types of Commerce Server APIs.