Prerequisites for creating an e-Marketing Spot for a JSP Store

Before you can create an e-Marketing Spot for a JSP Store, you must complete the prerequsite tasks.

You must work with the store developer to ensure that you can create an e-Marketing Spot in the Management Center.

Prerequisites for creating e-Marketing Spots

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The e-Marketing Spot is on a store page Before you complete this procedure, a store developer must:
  • Create a JSP file for the e-Marketing Spot by using the sample e-Marketing Spot JSP code snippet.
  • Add the e-Marketing Spot to a store page.
Ask the developer for the following information about the JSP file for the e-Marketing Spot:
  • The name of the e-Marketing Spot as defined in the JSP file, that is, the value for the emsName parameter.
  • The types of marketing information that can be displayed in the e-Marketing Spot is defined in the JSP file. Data types can be:
    • Content
    • Categories
    • Catalog entries
The e-Marketing Spot is being used exclusively as a remote widget A store developer does not need to create the JSP file for the e-Marketing Spot and add it to a store page.
The e-Marketing Spot is for an E-Marketing Spot widget in the Commerce Composer tool. A store developer does not need to create the JSP file for the e-Marketing Spot and add it to a store page.
  • For a common e-Marketing Spot, you can give the e-Marketing Spot any name you want.
  • For a page-specific e-Marketing Spot, you must used the generated name for the e-Marketing Spot. For each page to which the layout is assigned, the generated e-Marketing Spot name uses this format:
  • [page_name][suffix], for example, ElectronicsRow1Ad.