Sitecore 8 EXM add a contact to list from listmanager

Question

I\'m using Sitecore 8 and the new Email Experience Manager module. I have configured a newsletter email message with an empty list from the listmanager as recipients.

Answer 1

in case you have a tracker available and you dont need the update immediately, the following should work (note that the contact is added to the list upon session expiration):

//private const string ContactListTagName = "ContactLists";

var contact = Tracker.Current.Contact;

// Identify
if (contact.Identifiers.IdentificationLevel < ContactIdentificationLevel.Known)
{
    Tracker.Current.Session.Identify(email);
}

// Set Email
var contactEmail = contact.GetFacet("Emails");

// Create an email address if not already present

// This can be named anything, but must be the same as "Preferred" if you want
// this email to show in the Experience Profiles backend. 
if (!contactEmail.Entries.Contains("Preferred"))
    contactEmail.Entries.Create("Preferred");

// set the email
var emailEntry = contactEmail.Entries["Preferred"];
emailEntry.SmtpAddress = email;
contactEmail.Preferred = "Preferred";

// set FirstName and Surname (required for List Manager, "N/A" might not be ideal but I don't know how Sitecore behaves with empty strings)
var personal = contact.GetFacet("Personal");
personal.FirstName = personal.FirstName ?? "N/A";
personal.Surname = personal.Surname ?? "N/A";

// Add preferred language
var preferences = contact.GetFacet("Preferences");
preferences.Language = Context.Language.Name;

// Here is the actual adding to the list by adding tags
using (new SecurityDisabler())
{
    var id = ID.Parse("CONTACTLISTID");
    contact.Tags.Set(ContactListTagName, id.ToString().ToUpperInvariant());
}

Greetz, Markus