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The information contained in this section applies to IBM WebSphere Commerce Version 7.0.0.9 and Feautre Pack 8. The documentation also applies to all subsequent releases and modifications until otherwise indicated in new editions.
Administering
Managing features
You can administer the features for your store and site, such as attribute, catalog, promotion, marketing, order management features, and more. The administration tasks that you can complete differ depending on the type of feature and the tool that you use to administer your store and site.
Marketing
You can administer marketing features such as marketing activities, statistics, experiments, and e-mail activities. The adminstration tasks differ depending on whether you use WebSphere Commerce Accelerator or Management Center.
Administering marketing in Management Center
To support marketing features in Management Center, there are a number of administration tasks that you might need to perform.
Administering marketing email activities
If your site uses the Marketing tool in Management Center to send email activities and dialog activities, you must perform some configuration tasks.
Configuring your store to avoid sending multiple marketing e-mails to the same e-mail address
By adding a new attribute to the WebSphere Commerce configuration file, you can prevent the server from sending multiple e-mails to the same address for the same e-mail activity, even when the e-mail address belongs to different users. This ensures that a customer who registers as more than one user but supplies the same e-mail address for each user receives only one e-mail per e-mail activity.

Configuring your store to avoid sending multiple marketing e-mails to the same e-mail address

By adding a new attribute to the WebSphere Commerce configuration file, you can prevent the server from sending multiple e-mails to the same address for the same e-mail activity, even when the e-mail address belongs to different users. This ensures that a customer who registers as more than one user but supplies the same e-mail address for each user receives only one e-mail per e-mail activity.

Procedure

Open the WebSphere Commerce configuration file.
Locate the section of the file that starts with the <Instance element.

Within the <Instance element, add the attribute filterDuplicateEmails="true", as shown in the following example:

<Instance BootstrapMulti="wcs.bootstrap_multi_en_US.xml,"
               . . . . . . . . .
              InstanceName="demo"
              filterDuplicateEmails="true"
              InstanceType="local"
              . . . . . . . . . . .
              WCSInstallDir="D:\WebSphere\CommerceServer70"
              WorkspacePath="" />

Save and close the file.
Propagate the changes to the WebSphere Commerce configuration file.