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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 marketing
Working with Product Advisor
Creating a metaphor XML input file
Create an XML input file to specify which store's metaphors you want to build, update, or delete with the create metaphor scheduler command.
Preparing a Guided Sell metaphor
The steps in this section explain how to prepare Guided Sell metaphor.
Setting the default link for a Guided Sell metaphor
You can set the default link for a Guided Sell metaphor, so that any answer in your question and answer tree for which you do not specify a link will automatically use the default. This link can be to any prepared Product Exploration, Product Comparison, or Guided Sell metaphor for any category. You can also set a default link to an HTML Web page.

Deprecated feature

Setting the default link for a Guided Sell metaphor

You can set the default link for a Guided Sell metaphor, so that any answer in your question and answer tree for which you do not specify a link will automatically use the default. This link can be to any prepared Product Exploration, Product Comparison, or Guided Sell metaphor for any category. You can also set a default link to an HTML Web page.

About this task

To set the default link:

Procedure

Edit the XML input file
Insert a metaphorLink element immediately after the template element in a salesAssistant element.
Save the XML file.
Continue to create the question and answer tree.

Results

Note: If an answer links to a metaphor that either has not been created, or had been created and then subsequently deleted, the answer displays in the customer's viewer as plain text. The customer will not be able to select that answer.