Sitecore gender personalization

Question

I added personalization rule in my Sitecore site - "Where the gender of the current contact is Male", but I can't figure out how to set "Visitors settings" to test it.

I'll be very grateful if someone can help me with this.

Thanks in advance!

Where do you have the gender coming from? Is that extended user profile? Also what is your Sitecore version? — Martin Miles
I added this condition using Device Editor -> Controls -> Personalization, then I selected that gender condition from the conditions list. My current Sitecore version is 8. Tnaks in advance! — Bube

Martin Miles Martin Miles · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-05T10:16:56

The only Gender condition I found in default Sitecore 8 installation is the one coming from Social module (that is now built-in) located at /sitecore/system/Settings/Rules/Definitions/Macros/Social/Gender in Sitecore tree. Looking up its code I see the following code:

protected override bool Execute(T ruleContext)
{
  if (!AnalyticsSettings.Enabled || Tracker.Current == null || Tracker.Current.Contact == null)
    return false;
  return string.Equals(this.GenderValue, ((IGenderConditionManager) ResolutionExtensions.Get<IGenderConditionManager>((IResolutionRoot) ExecutingContext.Current.IoC, new IParameter[0])).GetGender(GuidExtensions.GetIdentifier(Tracker.Current.Contact.ContactId)).ToString(), StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
}

From the code above we can see that to make Gender condition work, you should have analytics and tracking up and running. So if you have that enabled - ensure all settings are correct and it works indeed.

User membership provider does not have gender settings by itself; so the rule condition above can take it only from tracking.

Sitecore gender personalization

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