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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.
Developing
The topics in the Developing section describe tasks performed by an application developer.
Presentation layer
WebSphere Commerce uses Java Server Pages (JSP) to implement the view layer of the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern. The view layer is in charge of retrieving data from the database through the use of data beans and formatting it to meet the display requirements. The view layers determines whether the request is sent to a browser or streamed out as XML. JSP files present a clean separation between data content and presentation.
Customizing promotions
Customizing promotions can involve the customization of the promotion business user tools and the underlying promotion engine, which features a clean architecture supporting rich functionality, as well as a wide array of customization possibilities.
Promotions customization: Management Center
If the default promotion types supplied with the Management Center do not meet your business needs, you can create custom promotion types. Business users can then use the custom promotion types in the Management Center Promotions tool to create promotions for the store.
Reverting order-level free gift promotions to pre-Version-7 behavior
If you are migrating promotions to Management Center Version 7 and you do not want migrated order-level free gift promotions to use the Version 7 choice of free gift option, you can disable this option for your site. As a result, migrated order-level free gift promotions will work as they did before migration.

Reverting order-level free gift promotions to pre-Version-7 behavior

If you are migrating promotions to Management Center Version 7 and you do not want migrated order-level free gift promotions to use the Version 7 choice of free gift option, you can disable this option for your site. As a result, migrated order-level free gift promotions will work as they did before migration.

About this task

The features of pre-Version-7 of order-level free gift promotions are:

Customers cannot remove the free gifts from their shopping carts if they do not want the gift
The promotion can have only one SKU as a gift, although multiples of the SKU are allowed

Procedure

Navigate to the WC_eardir/xml/config/com.ibm.commerce.promotion-ext/template directory.
Open the OrderFreeGiftBehaviourControl.xsl file in an editor.

Locate the following line of code:

<xsl:variable name="preventRemovalOfFreeGiftFromCart">false</xsl:variable>

Change the value false to true.
Save your changes.
Deploy your changes to the production server.