Enabling a Subscribe link for an e-Marketing Spot feed in the Aurora starter store

The Aurora starter store includes a feature that allows customers to subscribe to e-Marketing Spot feeds for catalog entry recommendations. To familiarize yourself with the Aurora implementation, you can enable and test the Subscribe link for an e-Marketing Spot on the Department page. Then, consider a similar implementation for your own store.

The Subscribe link is included in the upper-right corner of an e-Marketing Spot (horizontal product recommendation widget) in the fourth row of the Department page:


Subscribe link in an e-Marketing Spot
When a customer clicks the Subscribe link, the e-Marketing Spot feed displays in a browser. To subscribe to the feed, the customer can copy the URL and paste it into a feed reader.

Procedure

  1. For the Aurora starter store that you published, use the Store Management tool to enable the following store function on the Wish Lists and Feeds tab:
    • E-Marketing Spot feeds

    This store function enables the Subscribe link for the [category]Row4_CatEntries e-Marketing Spot on the Department page.

  2. View and test the Subscribe link:
    1. Launch store preview.
    2. Browse to the Apparel department page.
    3. View the Subscribe link above the e-Marketing Spot in the fourth row, as shown in the previous screen capture.
      Tip: The code that adds the Subscribe link to the Department page e-Marketing Spot is in the following JSP file for the Aurora starter store:

      /Stores/WebContent/Aurora/Layouts/TopCategoryPage.jsp

    4. Click the Subscribe link.
      The browser displays the feed in the manner the browser supports. For example, some browsers display the formatted feed whereas others display the XML code. Either way, the feed URL displays in the address bar.
    5. To subscribe to the feed, copy the feed URL and paste it into a feed reader.