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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.
Administering
Topics in the Administering category highlight tasks that are typically performed by the Site Administrator, to support daily operations of the HCL Commerce site.
Managing features
You can administer the features for your store and site, such as attribute, catalog, promotion, marketing, order management features, and more. The administration tasks that you can complete differ depending on the type of feature and the tool that you use to administer your store and site.
Promotions
You can administer promotion features such as creating or deleting promotion folders and configuring the promotions engine.
Configuring the promotion engine
By editing the promotion engine configuration XML file, you can change various configuration settings for the promotion engine.
Automatically reloading promotion configuration files
This feature allows changes to promotion configuration files to be applied without having to restart the HCL Commerce server. The reloading occurs after the specified reload interval period has elapsed. This feature reloads the following configuration files: WCSPromotionEngineConfig.xml and wc-admin-component.xml (-ext), depending on whether the files have been modified since the last reload time.

Automatically reloading promotion configuration files

This feature allows changes to promotion configuration files to be applied without having to restart the HCL Commerce server. The reloading occurs after the specified reload interval period has elapsed. This feature reloads the following configuration files: WCSPromotionEngineConfig.xml and wc-admin-component.xml (-ext), depending on whether the files have been modified since the last reload time.

About this task

When this feature is enabled, any changes to promotion configuration files are automatically reloaded after the specified reload interval period has elapsed. Ensure that you monitor the trace for potential errors that might occur as a result of the reload.

Procedure

Open HCL Commerce Developer and switch to the Enterprise Explorer view.
Open the promotion engine configuration XML file in an editor:

workspace_dir/WC/xml/PromotionEngineConfiguration/WCSPromotionEngineConfig.xml

Within the <DefaultBehavior> element, locate the line of code labeled 1 in the following example:


<DefaultBehavior>
        <StatelessInvocation>true</StatelessInvocation>
        <CheckTargetingAtRuntime>true</CheckTargetingAtRuntime>
        <SkipTargetingOnCodeEntered>true</SkipTargetingOnCodeEntered>
        <PriceAdjustmentBasedOnStandardOfferPrice>true</PriceAdjustmentBasedOnStandardOfferPrice>
        <EvaluationFlowControl>0</EvaluationFlowControl> 
        <SequenceCombinationLimit>50</SequenceCombinationLimit> 
        <Debug>false</Debug>
<ReloadInterval>-1</ReloadInterval>1
</DefaultBehavior>
…

To enable this feature, change the value of the <ReloadInterval> element to the number of milliseconds to wait for the automatic reload to occur. To disable this feature, set the reload interval to any negative value.
Optional: To change the upper limit for the number of sequences to evaluate for each promotion, change the value of the <SequenceCombinationLimit> element to a different number.

Save and close the file.

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