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HCL Commerce is a high-availability, highly scalable and customizable e-commerce platform. Able to support hundreds of thousands of transactions per day, HCL Commerce allows you to do business with consumers (B2C) or directly with businesses (B2B). HCL Commerce uses cloud friendly technology to make deployment and operation both easy and efficient. It provides easy-to-use tools for business users to centrally manage a cross-channel strategy. Business users can create and manage precision marketing campaigns, promotions, catalog, and merchandising across all sales channels. Business users can also use AI enabled content management capabilities.
Customizing
The topics in the Customizing section describe tasks performed by an application developer to customize HCL Commerce.
Customizing HCL Commerce
You can extend the HCL Commerce product to fit your business needs. This topic describes the prerequisite skills and required knowledge that you need to customize business logic. After you have the required knowledge, use HCL Commerce Developer to take tutorials that guide you step-by-step through various customization scenarios.
Supporting globalization
The HCL Commerce architecture is designed to support globalization. Globalization is the proper design and execution of systems, software, services, and procedures so that one instance of software, running on a single server or end-user machine, can process multilingual data and present culturally correct data in a multicultural environment such as the Internet.
Globalized tools framework
As is the case with globalized stores in HCL Commerce, all tools pages are enabled for globalization. The globalization enablement of tools pages is accomplished through the use of a set of tools framework's functions and utilities.
Address and name formatting in the tools
Address and name formatting in the HCL Commerce tools uses XML files to encapsulate the address or name format control information. The XML files contain address or name control information such as what fields are required, the number of lines that constitute an address or name format, the sequence and nature of address or name attributes that must display on one line, and so on.

Address and name formatting in the tools

Address and name formatting in the HCL Commerce tools uses XML files to encapsulate the address or name format control information. The XML files contain address or name control information such as what fields are required, the number of lines that constitute an address or name format, the sequence and nature of address or name attributes that must display on one line, and so on.

About this task

The following is a high-level description of the address or name format approach that HCL Commerce tools follows:

Procedure

Create an XML file to hold your address format information.


<de_DE>
<line0 elements="nickName"/>
<line1 elements="title,space,firstName,space,lastName"/>
<line2 elements="address1,space,address2,space,address3"/>
<line3 elements="postalCode,space,city"/>
<line4 elements="region,comma,space,country"/>
<line5 elements="phoneNumber"/>
</de_DE>

For a sample implementation, see workspace_dir\wc\xml\tools\order\addressFormats.xml

Use the tools framework XMLUtil.get(Hash table tree, String path) to parse your XML file. This method is one of the utility classes to read and write XML files and strings contained in the tools framework. When reading XML files and strings, these parsers turn the XML data into a hash table.
Use the address format control information stored in the hash table created in the previous step, to display the formatted address attributes to the end user as shown in the following example: CommerceAccelerator.war\tools\order\OrderBillingAddressPage.jsp.