Convert profile documents to normal documents?

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Is it possible to do this?

The history is that I have an application where I was using profile documents for people to get alerts sent to them based on categories.

What I’ve found though is that the server agent, when it looks up the profiledoccollection, just gets the cached collection. After now researching it this is normal, and I should have looked into it closer before of course.

So, now I just want to convert the profile docs into normal docs and do a loop through a view for the alerts, and to find the docs when people open their profile.

When I just create a view to display those docs nothing displays (because they’ve been created using a getprofiledoc call I guess).

Is there any way of updating them? I can run a getprofiledocccollection agent on my client to retrieve them all, but what can I do with them to convert them to normal docs

Cheers

Dan

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Subject: Converting profile doc to non-profile

I tied this and noticed a profile document has $Name and $NoPurge fields, and it also has no Form field. I tried removing those fields and adding a Form field, but that didn’t work. There is a read only property IsProfile, but being read only you can’t modify it.

One option is to create a new document, set the Form property, loop through items in your profile and copy anything that doesn’t start “$” to the new document. That worked for me.

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Subject: Thanks

Will try this, sounds just what I need, very logical.