Configuring the site to use Marketing instead of the Marketing tool

If you migrate to Version 7, but you do not want to use the Marketing tool in , you must modify an attribute in a configuration file. As a result, your site will use the marketing runtime that works with instead of the marketing services that work with . After you make this change, business users must manage all marketing information, such as Web activities and e-Marketing Spots, using .

About this task

You can continue to use the e-Marketing Spot JSP snippet for on your store pages rather than the e-Marketing Spot JSP snippet for .

Note that the starter stores supplied with Version 7 use the e-Marketing Spot JSP snippet for . Also, the Web activities for the starter stores are created in the Marketing tool.

Procedure

  1. Open the configuration file in a text editor.
  2. To use for marketing management:
    1. Find the<Marketing> element.
      It looks like the following example: 
      <Marketing version="Dialog"/>
    2. Change the version attribute of the <Marketing> element so that the value is Classic.

      There are two marketing versions: Classic refers to the versions before Version 6 Feature Pack 3 marketing runtime that works with ; Dialog refers to the marketing services that work with . When you set this value to Classic, you must use for all marketing functions.

  3. Save your changes.
  4. Propagate your changes to the configuration file.