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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.
Reference
Topics in the Reference section contain all of the HCL Commerce reference documentation.
Shopping flow URLs
HCL Commerce shopping flow URLs are organized by subsystem.
Request for Quote (RFQ)
A Request for Quote (RFQ) is a type of trading mechanism available in HCL Commerce. You can maintain and administer RFQs using the HCL Commerce Accelerator. When you publish the advanced B2B starter store provided with HCL Commerce, you get the RFQ request tool.
RFQ URLs
The following URLs are related to RFQ.
RFQItemSpecificationAdd
Adds a product specification to an item in an RFQ.

Documentation
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.
- Getting started
  HCL Commerce has different advantages for business users, administrators and developers. HCL Commerce targets each of these roles with a tailored set of offerings so that each of your users can get maximum benefit.
- Installing and deploying
  Learn how to install and deploy HCL Commerce development environments and HCL Commerce production environments.
- Migrating
  Before you migrate to HCL Commerce Version 9.1, review this information to help plan and execute your migration.
- Operating
  Topics in the Operating category highlight tasks that are typically performed by business users, customer support representatives, to complete their day-to-day tasks in the operation of the HCL Commerce site.
- Integrating
  Topics in the Integrating category highlight the tasks that are commonly performed for using HCL Commerce in combination with other products.
- 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.
- Customizing
  The topics in the Customizing section describe tasks performed by an application developer to customize HCL Commerce.
- Tutorials
  HCL Commerce provides many tutorials to help you customize and understand your HCL Commerce instance and stores.
- Samples
  Topics in the Samples category highlight the various samples that are provided with HCL Commerce.
- Compliance
  The following section describes how you can leverage HCL Commerce features and functionality to help your site be compliant with different privacy and security standards.
- Securing
  These topics describe the security features of HCL Commerce and how to configure these features.
- Performance
  Topics in the Performance section describe the means by which to plan, implement, test, and re-visit the optimization of HCL Commerce site performance.
- Troubleshooting
  Topics in the Troubleshooting section highlight common issues that are encountered with HCL Commerce, and how they can be addressed or mitigated.
- Reference
  Topics in the Reference section contain all of the HCL Commerce reference documentation.
  - HCL Commerce API reference
    HCL Commerce exposes two main programming APIs. The first and newest API is a REST interface, and most new classes are exposed here. The legacy Java API also contains new classes not suitable for REST, and can be browsed in Javadoc format.
  - Cross-reference of data beans and tables
    Data beans are grouped into several component groups.
  - Cross-reference of commands, tasks, and tables
    URL commands, controller commands, task commands, view commands and tables are related to each other.
  - Cross reference: Commands to beans to database tables
    Use this information when you are customizing a command and you want to know which tables are affected. You should also use this topic if you are modifying a table and want to know which commands and beans are affected.
  - Run Engine commands
    The following Run Engine commands are available by default for you to configure the applications that are running inside the containers.
  - Entering Docker containers
    To enter a Docker container you can complete the following steps.
  - Docker container start up logic for HCL Commerce Version 9.1
    When you deploy a container from an HCL provided image, an Entrypoint.sh helper script determines the configurations to use while starting up the container. Review the following information to learn about what the helper script does, and how you can customize the configurations.
  - HCL Commerce database schema
    The HCL Commerce database model was designed for data integrity and optimal performance. HCL Commerce provides several hundred tables that store HCL Commerce instance data. To maintain data integrity, and to ease maintenance referential integrity, constraints are widely used in the database model. Indexes are used carefully on tables to avoid over-indexing and to provide a good balance between data retrieval and data manipulation activities (insert and update). The business rules are implemented at the application level rather than by using database trigger. Triggers, however, are used to facilitate data staging and optimistic locking. A limited number of SQL-based database stored procedures are used for data intensive activities.
  - Payments subsystem
    In HCL Commerce, payment processing uses the Payments subsystem.
  - Dynamic caching
    In general, caching improves response time and reduces system load. Caching techniques are used to improve the performance of World Wide Web Internet applications. Most techniques cache static content (content that rarely changes) such as graphic and text files. However, many websites serve dynamic content, containing personalized information or data that changes more frequently. Caching dynamic content requires more sophisticated caching techniques, such as those provided by the WebSphere Application Server dynamic cache, a built-in service for caching and serving dynamic content.
  - HCL Commerce store pages properties
  - Cache-entry elements
    The root element of the cachespec.xml file, <cache>, contains <cache-entry> elements. The WebSphere dynamic cache service parses the cachespec.xml file during start-up, and extracts a set of configuration parameters from each <cache-entry> element.
  - Data Load utility configuration file schema
    The Data Load utility contains several configuration files. You can use the configuration file schema to understand and customize the data load configuration files.
  - HCL Commerce web services
    HCL Commerce provides many web services.
  - Utilities
    In HCL Commerce utilities are scripts that perform operations such as loading access control policies, loading store data, and cleaning the database of obsolete objects. In runtime environments, run utilities from the Utility server Docker container. In the development environment, run utilities from the bin directory.
  - Shopping flow URLs
    HCL Commerce shopping flow URLs are organized by subsystem.
    - Catalog subsystem URLs
      Catalog subsystem URLs include all logic and data relevant to a catalog, including categories, products and their attributes, items, and groupings of each, and any associations or relationships among them.
    - Member subsystem URLs
      The Member subsystem includes all logic and data relevant to registration, authentication, and grouping of all members. A member can be a user, an organization or organizational entity, or a member group.
    - Order Management subsystem URLs
      The Order Management subsystem includes all logic and data relevant to placing, processing, and managing orders. The Order Management subsystem also deals with returns.
    - Request for Quote (RFQ)
      A Request for Quote (RFQ) is a type of trading mechanism available in HCL Commerce. You can maintain and administer RFQs using the HCL Commerce Accelerator. When you publish the advanced B2B starter store provided with HCL Commerce, you get the RFQ request tool.
      - RFQ notification messages
        HCL Commerce generates RFQ notification messages.
      - Personal dictionary
        The following URLs are related to personal dictionary.
      - RFQ URLs
        The following URLs are related to RFQ.
        RFQActivateAllDue
        Invoked by a scheduled job. Activates (submits) RFQs that are in the future state when the specified date and time are reached.
        RFQCategoryAdd
        Adds a category to group the items in the RFQ.
        CloseAllExpiredRFQs
        Invoked by a scheduled job. Closes all active state RFQs according to the closing rule. The RFQ closing rule is specified in the column RULETYPE of the HCL Commerce table database/database/rfq.html.
        RFQClose
        Closes the RFQs and sets all corresponding responses to the in-evaluation state.
        RFQCancel
        Cancels the specified RFQ requests and their corresponding responses.
        RFQCopy
        Copies an RFQ.
        RFQCreate
        Creates an RFQ.
        RFQCreateForNextRound
        Creates a next round RFQ.
        RFQItemAdd
        Adds items to the RFQ.
        RFQItemCommentAdd
        Adds a product comment to an item in the RFQ.
        RFQItemCommentRemove
        Removes product comments from an item in the RFQ.
        RFQItemCommentUpdate
        Updates product comments to an item in the RFQ.
        RFQItemRemove
        Removes an item from the RFQ.
        RFQItemSpecificationAdd
        Adds a product specification to an item in an RFQ.
        RFQItemSpecificationRemove
        Removes a product specification from an item in an RFQ.
        RFQItemSpecificationUpdate
        Updates product specification to an item in an RFQ.
        RFQItemUpdate
        Updates product information in an RFQ.
        RFQMarkForDelete
        Invoked by a scheduled job. Marks canceled or completed RFQs for deletion after the specified period.
        RFQModifyBasic
        Updates the general information of the RFQ.
        RFQPriceAdjustmentOnCategoryAdd
        Adds a price adjustment on a category in the RFQ.
        RFQPriceAdjustmentOnCategoryRemove
        Removes a price adjustment on a category in the RFQ.
        RFQPriceAdjustmentOnCategoryUpdate
        Updates a price adjustment on a category in the RFQ.
        RFQAcceptResponse
        Sets the specified list of RFQ responses to the Won state.
        RFQResponseProductAccept
        Accepts products in the RFQ.
        RFQRejectResponse
        Sets the specified list of RFQ responses to the Lost state.
        RFQResponseProductReject
        Rejects products in the RFQ response.
        RFQSubmit
        Submits the RFQ.
        RFQTCAdd
        Adds terms and conditions to an RFQ.
        RFQTCRemove
        Removes terms and conditions from an RFQ.
        RFQToContractCreate
        Converts an RFQ to a contract.
        RFQTCUpdate
        Updates terms and conditions in an RFQ.
        RFQTargetListAdd
        Adds stores to the target list of the RFQ.
        RFQTargetListRemove
        Removes stores from the target list of the RFQ.
        RFQToOrderCreate
        Converts an RFQ to an order.
        RFQNotificationClosedMonitor
        Invoked by the HCL Commerce scheduler to process pending notifications for any closed RFQs. This URL is called by scheduler. No display page will return.
        RFQNotificationCompletedMonitor
        Invoked by the HCL Commerce scheduler to process pending notifications for any completed RFQs. This URL is called by scheduler. No display page will return.
        RFQNotificationSubmittedMonitor
        Invoked by the HCL Commerce scheduler to process pending notifications for any submitted RFQs. This URL is called by scheduler. No display page will return.
  - Messaging system URLs
    The following URLs relate to the Messaging system.
  - Scheduler URLs
    The server subsystem consists of functions that are associated with URLs that are run by the scheduler.
  - jQuery Enhancements API
    The Aurora starter store in HCL Commerce is completely written in jQuery, which is one of the most commonly used JavaScript libraries used in dynamic websites. The jQuery AJAX and events API provides an easy to use framework that meets most AJAX requirements for storefront development.
  - HCL Commerce foundation tag library
    The HCL Commerce foundation JSTL tag library is a collection of custom tags that are provided to you to support the authoring of HCL Commerce JSP files. HCL Commerce stores use the JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library (JSTL) to perform logic, instead of Java code. At the same time, business logic is moved into data beans. The combination of these steps allows for less Java code in a JSP page.

HCL Commerce Enterprise

RFQItemSpecificationAdd URL

Adds a product specification to an item in an RFQ.

URL structure

http:// host_name/path/: The fully qualified name of your HCL Commerce Server and the configuration path.

Parameter values

rfqprod_id: Required: The internal identification of the product in the RFQ.
name: Required: Name of the personalized attribute.
operator: Required: The internal reference number of the operator.
valuedelim: Required: Delimiter used to separate multiple value of the personalized specification.
quantityunit: Required: The unit of measure for the quantity specified as the value of the personalized specification.
value: Required: Value of the personalized attribute.
mandatory: Required: Indicate if this product specification is mandatory: 0=this product specification is not mandatory 1=this product specification is mandatory
changeable: Required: Indicate if this product specification is changeable: 0=this product specification is not changeable 1=this product specification is changeable

Example

The following example adds product specifications to the RFQ product with ID 10001.


    
http://myhostname/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/RFQItemSpecificationAdd?rfqprod_id=10001&name=Color
       
&operator=0&valuedelim=,&quantityunit=62&value=red&mandatory=1&changeable=1&URL=/

Behavior

Checks if the supplied RFQ product exists in the database.
Calls the CreatePAttributeValueCmd task command to add the product specification to the RFQ product.

Exception conditions

The parameter rfqprod_id must be specified.
The parameter name must be specified.
The parameter operator must be specified.
The parameter valuedelim must be specified.
The parameter quantityunit must be specified.
The parameter value must be specified.
The parameter mandatory must be specified.
The parameter changeable must be specified.