Feature Pack 5

Testing your customization code

Feature Pack 5

In this lesson, you are testing your folder customization in Management Center.

Feature Pack 6 or laterAttention: This tutorial is based on the folder support that is included in Feature Pack 5 and is not recommended if you are on a newer feature pack level. Beginning with Feature Pack 6, support is provided by default for grouping e-Marketing Spots, activities, customer segments, marketing content, promotions, and attribute dictionary attributes. This support includes the capability of creating, changing, and deleting folders within the Management Center Catalogs, Marketing, and Promotions tools. You are not able to group folders created by following this tutorial with folders that are created by using Management Center. If you create Management Center folders by following the steps included in this tutorial, delete those folders before you create folders by using Management Center. For more information about folders, see Folders.

Feature Pack 7 or laterSupport is provided by default for grouping content pages and layouts in the Commerce Composer tool. This support includes creating, changing, and deleting folders with the Commerce Composer tool.

Procedure

  1. Start your WebSphere Commerce Test Server.
  2. Open the Marketing tool.
  3. Select your Aurora starter store.
  4. From the explorer tree, select E-Marketing Spot Folders > EMarketing SpotFolder > JanuarySpots. The following image displays the folders list in the left navigation panel:

  5. Right-click a sample folder EMarketing SpotFolder; select Show E-Marketing Spot Folders List

  6. The corresponding sub folders display in the main work area. Ensure that your main work area display resembles the following image:

  7. Right-click a sub folder JanuarySpots; select Show E-Marketing Spot List

  8. The E-Marketing Spot List displays in the folder. Ensure that your E-Marketing Spot List resembles the following image:

  9. Click the Open Utilities Toolbar icon to open the utilities view. Browse your E-Marketing Spots with the utilities view and drag or copy the E-Marketing Spot from the utilities view to your folders.

  10. Save your changes.

Results

If you can view your folders in the Marketing tool, and add and remove e-Marketing Spots to and from your folders, your customization is successfully complete.