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| Ravi Shankar 2004-05-01, 7:34 am |
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As part of the site we're building the customer has a
requirement that states that they would like to see all
discounts applicable for a product/SKU to be visible on
the product listing page.
I have gone through the documentation (probably not with
sufficient thoroughness) but am at a loss on how for
every product I can query the CFS for all possible
discounts available on it...
Any pointers welcome
Regards.
Ravi.
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| Andy Xu[MSFT] 2004-05-05, 9:36 pm |
| Ravi,
Unfornately, there is no direct out-of-box solution for the scenario you describe, which is more like predict discounts based on product. The content selection feature provided by
Commerce Server 2002 is to show ad/discount targetted by user profile or target context. What you want is targetted by product/SKU.
A workaround I can think of is to add a property to targeting context, for example, called "TargetedProduct". for each discount, you create a target expression, which is
TargetingContext.TargetedProduct = <SKU value>". And in the runtime code, for each request to the product page, your site code is in charge of adding corresponding SKU(s) to the
targeting context's TargetedProduct property. (CommerceContext.Current.TargetingSystem.TargetingContextProfile ) And running ContentSelector should get the targetted discounts.
The problem is, of course, if you have multiple products in one page, you will probably get more than one returned applicable discounts. You probably have to use the site code to
mapping the returned discount to show with the correct product.
HTH,
Andy Xu [MSFT]
Commerce Server Team
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As part of the site we're building the customer has a
requirement that states that they would like to see all
discounts applicable for a product/SKU to be visible on
the product listing page.
I have gone through the documentation (probably not with
sufficient thoroughness) but am at a loss on how for
every product I can query the CFS for all possible
discounts available on it...
Any pointers welcome
Regards.
Ravi.
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| Ravi Shankar 2004-06-26, 10:50 am |
| I have done the following
1. Extended the "Targeting Context" Profile by adding a
field "TargetProduct"
2. Based on this using BizDesk I created a "Target
Group" where the Expression is TargetProduct="SKU" and
the Action is "Target"
3. In an advertising campaign I created an Advertisement
where "Page Group" was "ALL" and the above TargetGroup
was the assigned target group.
4. I'm trying to retrieve the ad like so...
Dim oCommerceContext As CommerceContext
Dim oCS As ContentSelector
oCommerceContext = CommerceContext.Current
oCommerceContext.TargetingSystem.TargetingContextProfile
("PageGroup").Value = "All"
oCommerceContext.TargetingSystem.TargetingContextProfile
("TargetProduct").Value = ProductID
oCS = oCommerceContext.TargetingSystem.SelectionContexts
("Advertising").GetSelector()
If Not oCS Is Nothing Then
oCS.Profiles.Add("targetingContext",
oCommerceContext.TargetingSystem.TargetingContextProfile)
If oCommerceContext.AuthenticationInfo.IsAuthenticated
() Then
oCS.Profiles.Add("user",
oCommerceContext.UserProfile)
End If
oCS.ItemsRequested = 3
oCS.Size = "Button1"
m_arDiscounts = oCS.GetContent()
If m_arDiscounts.Count > 0 Then
productDiscountsDisplay.DataSource = m_arDiscounts
productDiscountsDisplay.DataBind()
End If
End If
Now what is happening is that the ad is being shown for
every product, While I wanted only where the target group
condition is true.
Is there something I missed ? How can cause the selection
framework to return this only when the target group is
exactly matched.
HELP !
>-----Original Message-----
>Ravi,
>
>Unfornately, there is no direct out-of-box solution for
the scenario you describe, which is more like predict
discounts based on product. The content selection feature
provided by
>Commerce Server 2002 is to show ad/discount targetted by
user profile or target context. What you want is
targetted by product/SKU.
>
>A workaround I can think of is to add a property to
targeting context, for example,
called "TargetedProduct". for each discount, you create
a target expression, which is
>TargetingContext.TargetedProduct = <SKU value>". And in
the runtime code, for each request to the product page,
your site code is in charge of adding corresponding SKU
(s) to the
>targeting context's TargetedProduct property.
(CommerceContext.Current.TargetingSystem.TargetingContextP
rofile ) And running ContentSelector should get the
targetted discounts.
>
>The problem is, of course, if you have multiple products
in one page, you will probably get more than one returned
applicable discounts. You probably have to use the site
code to
>mapping the returned discount to show with the correct
product.
>
>HTH,
>
>Andy Xu [MSFT]
>Commerce Server Team
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>This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
confers no rights. Use of included script samples are
subject to the terms specified at
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>
>
>As part of the site we're building the customer has a
>requirement that states that they would like to see all
>discounts applicable for a product/SKU to be visible on
>the product listing page.
>
>I have gone through the documentation (probably not with
>sufficient thoroughness) but am at a loss on how for
>every product I can query the CFS for all possible
>discounts available on it...
>
>Any pointers welcome
>
>Regards.
>Ravi.
>
>
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| Ravi Shankar 2004-06-26, 10:50 am |
| Solved it.. the issue was with the target group
definition, setting the action to "Require" as opposed
to "Target" resolved the display portion.
>-----Original Message-----
>I have done the following
>
> 1. Extended the "Targeting Context" Profile by adding a
>field "TargetProduct"
>
> 2. Based on this using BizDesk I created a "Target
>Group" where the Expression is TargetProduct="SKU" and
>the Action is "Target"
>
> 3. In an advertising campaign I created an
Advertisement
>where "Page Group" was "ALL" and the above TargetGroup
>was the assigned target group.
>
> 4. I'm trying to retrieve the ad like so...
>
> Dim oCommerceContext As CommerceContext
> Dim oCS As ContentSelector
>
> oCommerceContext = CommerceContext.Current
>
oCommerceContext.TargetingSystem.TargetingContextProfile
>("PageGroup").Value = "All"
>
oCommerceContext.TargetingSystem.TargetingContextProfile
>("TargetProduct").Value = ProductID
>
> oCS =
oCommerceContext.TargetingSystem.SelectionContexts
>("Advertising").GetSelector()
> If Not oCS Is Nothing Then
> oCS.Profiles.Add("targetingContext",
>oCommerceContext.TargetingSystem.TargetingContextProfile)
>
> If
oCommerceContext.AuthenticationInfo.IsAuthenticated
>() Then
> oCS.Profiles.Add("user",
>oCommerceContext.UserProfile)
> End If
>
> oCS.ItemsRequested = 3
> oCS.Size = "Button1"
> m_arDiscounts = oCS.GetContent()
>
> If m_arDiscounts.Count > 0 Then
> productDiscountsDisplay.DataSource =
m_arDiscounts
> productDiscountsDisplay.DataBind()
> End If
> End If
>
>Now what is happening is that the ad is being shown for
>every product, While I wanted only where the target
group
>condition is true.
>
>Is there something I missed ? How can cause the
selection
>framework to return this only when the target group is
>exactly matched.
>
>HELP !
>
>the scenario you describe, which is more like predict
>discounts based on product. The content selection
feature
>provided by
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>targeting context, for example,
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>the runtime code, for each request to the product page,
>your site code is in charge of adding corresponding SKU
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>
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>in one page, you will probably get more than one
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>code to
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