Store
preview allows you to ensure that content changes made in WebSphere
Commerce Accelerator show up in your store as expected. You can use
preview in production 
, authoring, and
staging environments. For example, your marketing team decides to
promote a line of leather coats. You create an e-Marketing Spot for
the new coats in the WebSphere Commerce Accelerator. Using preview,
you can ensure that the e-Marketing Spot is displayed the promotion
in your store as you expect, with the correct fonts, images and text.
Procedure
- Open the WebSphere Commerce
Accelerator.
- Click .
The Store Preview Options page
is displayed.
- In the What store
URL do you want to preview? field,
enter the store URL of the first page that you want to see in the
preview. For example, enter a product display URL. By default, this
field contains the URL of the store home page.
- In
the Date and time options field,
select an option:
| Option | Description |
|---|
| What is the start
date and time inside the preview? | - Current
date and time use your system's
date and time in the preview
- Specify start date
and time enter a specific
date and time. For example, you can enter a date two months in the
future to test if an e-promotion displays on that date as expected.
|
|---|
| Does time elapse in the preview? |
- Time in the preview does not elapse as
real time elapses maintain
the same date and time in the preview. For example, if the preview
starts on July 6, 2006 at 11:15 a.m. and five minutes elapse, the
date and time in the preview remains July 6, 2006 at 11:15 a.m.
- Time in the preview elapses as real time elapses. allow
time to elapse in the preview. For example, if the preview starts
on July 6, 2006 at 11:15 a.m. and five minutes elapse, the date and
time in the preview is July 6, 2006 at 11:20 a.m.
|
|---|
- In the Product
recommendations field,
choose and option:
Within a web activity, you can choose
to display product recommendations depending on the number of units
of a product in your inventory. Within store preview, you can set
options to facilitate testing the product recommendations. In the
examples below, assume the product recommendation displays if there
are more than 100 units in inventory.
| Option | Description |
|---|
| Use inventory levels in the database (default) |
If the database says that there are more than 100 units, the
product recommendation displays, otherwise it does not display. |
| Set all inventory filter results to true |
The store preview behaves as if there are more than 100 units
in inventory and the product recommendation displays. The data in
the database is not a factor in this decision. |
|---|
| Set all inventory filter results to false | Preview behaves as if there are less than 100
units in inventory and the product recommendation does not display.
The data in the database is not a factor in this decision. |
- Click OK.
The preview store opens
in a separate window.
When previewing a store from within
a workspace, attempting to process an order in the previewed store
might cause errors that prevent you from completing the order.