WebSphere Commerce tutorials

New tutorials can help you learn about and customize the new features and functions that are offered by WebSphere Commerce Version 7. By completing tutorials, you can learn how to customize and enhance Management Center, the Data Load utility, your web services, and your storefront display and functionality.

Feature Pack 8

The following tutorial is introduced with Feature Pack 8:

Tutorial that is introduced in Feature Pack 8
Tutorial	Description
Tutorial: Creating and customizing REST services by using the configuration-based controller command and data bean mapping framework	In this tutorial, you use the configuration-based controller command and data bean mapping framework to add support for creating REST services.

Feature Pack 7

The following tutorials are introduced with Feature Pack 7:

Tutorials that are introduced in Feature Pack 7
Tutorial	Description
Tutorial: Creating a site-level Commerce Composer widget	In this tutorial, you create a reusable site-level widget that can be used by Management Center users to compose store pages with the Commerce Composer tool. Your new widget can be reused on multiple store pages and shared across stores.
Tutorial: Creating a page and its layout by using the Commerce Composer tool	In this tutorial, you use Management Center to create a new content page. You then build a layout for the page by using a selection of widgets from the Commerce Composer widget library.
Tutorial: Building and deploying assets into a separated store archive	This tutorial shows you how to deploy your customized code for the warranty tutorial into a separated store archive environment by using the WebSphere Commerce Build and Deployment tool.

Feature Pack 6

The following tutorials are introduced with Feature Pack 6:

Tutorials that are introduced in Feature Pack 6
Tutorial	Description
Tutorial: Indexing external inventory data in WebSphere Commerce search	In this tutorial, you add the ability to index inventory data from an external source in WebSphere Commerce Search. The external source in this tutorial provides product inventory data.
Tutorial: Indexing profit margin data for use in dynamic product recommendation	In this tutorial, you can use specific search conditions to dynamically recommend products to customers based on the profit margin for the products.
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Feature Pack 5

The following tutorials are introduced with Feature Pack 5:

Tutorials that are introduced in Feature Pack 5
Tutorial	Description
Tutorial: Configuring WebSphere Commerce for device detection and redirection to device-specific storefronts	In this tutorial, you learn how to configure WebSphere Commerce for device detection and redirection to device-specific storefronts.
Extending a Management Center tool to support Workspace change history	This tutorial demonstrates how to extend a custom Management Center tool to support workspace change history. Change history maintains a log at the task group level of all changes that are made to business objects while you are working on a task.
Tutorial: Creating folders in the Marketing tool	In this tutorial, you learn how to add support for folders in the Marketing tool. The marketing folders that you create in this tutorial are specific for grouping e-Marketing Spots to improve organizing and managing these e-Marketing Spots.
Tutorial: Adding day-of-month scheduling support for recurring orders	This tutorial shows you how to customize WebSphere Commerce to serve the day-of-month recurring order schedule type in the Aurora starter store. For example, to allow customers to schedule a recurring order on the fifth of every month. The WebSphere Commerce schema is updated to store the new schedule type information. The Subscription service is updated to include the new user data in the Subscription noun.

Feature Pack 4

The following tutorials are introduced with Feature Pack 4:

Tutorials that are introduced in Feature Pack 4
Tutorial	Description
Tutorial: Displaying additional UserData in mobile native applications	In this tutorial, you learn how to display custom UserData in a mobile native application via REST services.
Tutorial: Creating a RESTful service and customizing the response format output	This tutorial demonstrates how to customize and test REST services for Project and Project Collection noun. To customize these REST services, you are also customizing entity providers to facilitate new custom response formats.
Tutorial: Targeting customers in smartphone and tablet starter stores	This tutorial demonstrates how to target customers in smartphone and tablet starter stores by creating a sales catalog for mobile starter stores. In this tutorial, you also create a web activity that targets customers that are using mobile devices.
Tutorial: Adding Facebook buttons to a custom store	In this tutorial, you add the Like and Send buttons and the Connect to Facebook link to the product pages of the Deprecated featureMadisons tablet store.

Feature Pack 3

The following tutorials are introduced with Feature Pack 3:

Tutorials that are introduced in Feature Pack 3
Tutorial	Description
Tutorial: Extending a search profile to retrieve and display custom data in the storefront	In this tutorial, you learn how to create catalog data and display this data in the storefront by using the search-based catalog navigation noun.
Tutorial: Customizing outbound order services from WebSphere Commerce to Sterling DOM	This tutorial demonstrates how to customize the WebSphere Commerce order component to support customization of the OrderItem noun part by using UserData information. This customization enables WebSphere Commerce to capture custom order user data and transfer it to Sterling DOM as part of the transfer order integration flow.
Tutorial: Adding suggestion groups to the auto-suggest menu	In this tutorial, you customize the auto-suggest menu for your storefront search to display a new navigation suggestion group in the menu. The auto-suggest menu is available in your WebSphere Commerce starter store when you enable WebSphere Commerce search.
Tutorial: Creating Search Engine Optimization (SEO) URLs	This tutorial demonstrates how to create Search Engine Optimization (SEO) URLs. Through SEO you can increase your online visibility in search engine results, driving more shoppers to your store. WebSphere Commerce provides several tools to assist with your overall SEO strategy, one of which is to create a short and meaningful search engine friendly URL.
Tutorial: Customizing test automation for custom features	In this tutorial, you learn how to customize test automation for your store to add custom features.
Tutorial: Adding day-of-month scheduling support for recurring orders	This tutorial shows you how to customize WebSphere Commerce to serve the day-of-month recurring order schedule type in the Aurora starter store. For example, to allow customers to schedule a recurring order on the fifth of every month. The WebSphere Commerce schema is updated to store the new schedule type information. The Subscription service is updated to include the new user data in the Subscription noun.
Tutorial: Using the WebSphere Commerce Build and Deployment tool	This tutorial shows you how to deploy your customized code for the warranty tutorial by using the WebSphere Commerce Build and Deployment tool. The WebSphere Commerce Build and Deployment tool is designed to address the error-prone and time-consuming nature of customized asset deployment.

Feature Pack 2

The following tutorials are introduced with Feature Pack 2:

Tutorials that are introduced in Feature Pack 2
Tutorial	Description
Tutorial: Adding support for multiple values of Attribute Dictionary attributes	In this tutorial, you learn how to customize the attribute dictionary feature to add support for multiple values for attribute dictionary attributes.
Tutorial: Adding dynamic text fields to the Store Management tool	This tutorial demonstrates how to add dynamic text fields in the Store Management tool and display this new content in the storefront. To complete this tutorial you modify definition files to use UserData element support, you add a profile field to the Store Management tool and then add the content to your storefront. The Store Management tool provides support for the UserData element in the logical layer object noun and physical layer database. This support acts as an extension point for adding new customizable data fields to a store profile.
Tutorial: Adding a Store Feature to the Store Management tool	In this tutorial, you learn how to customize the Store Management tool to add a link in your storefront to display store contact information.
Tutorial: Extending a Management Center tool to support content versioning for a custom object	In this tutorial, you learn how to add support for the content versioning feature in a new Management Center tool.
Tutorial: Defining write usage in Management Center	In this tutorial, you define a usage policy to determine whether a user has write access to instances of a business object. You create a Search Term Manager role that has write access to the Search Term Association object in the Catalogs tool.
Tutorial: Adding custom catalog entry information to WebSphere Commerce Search	In this tutorial, WebSphere Commerce search is used to enable searching on new custom database tables, where they are then searched upon from the storefront. This scenario assumes that the custom tables are created and might contain data. This tutorial involves adding new search schema fields, a search profile, and changing the catalog search service. The changes to the catalog search service include adding UserData information in the CatalogNavigationViewType noun by using the wc-business-object-mediator.xml file.
Tutorial: Indexing external data in WebSphere Commerce search	In this tutorial, you add the ability to index data from a source external to the WebSphere Commerce database. You then add Management Center support for ranking product search results based on the indexed data.
Tutorial: Adding day-of-month scheduling support for recurring orders	This tutorial shows you how to customize WebSphere Commerce to serve the day-of-month recurring order schedule type. For example, to allow customers to schedule a recurring order on the fifth of every month. The WebSphere Commerce schema is updated to store the new schedule type information. The Subscription service is updated to include the new user data in the Subscription noun.

Feature Pack 1

The following tutorials are introduced with Feature Pack 1:

Tutorials that are introduced in Feature Pack 1
Tutorial	Description
Tutorial: Creating an Atom feed to display information in a remote widget	This tutorial shows you how to customize WebSphere Commerce to use an Atom feed. You can display the information from the feed in a widget that your customers can share to social networks. The widget can contain links to drive traffic from social networks back to your store. By creating this type of Web service feed, you are no longer limited to displaying your information on store pages.
Tutorial: Customizing the Data Load utility to encrypt data	This tutorial demonstrates how to customize the Data Load utility to load user and password information into the WebSphere Commerce database separately.
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Tutorial: Extending the Management Center Catalog Upload feature to upload custom data	This tutorial demonstrates how to customize the Management Center Catalogs tool Catalog Upload feature to load data into custom tables.