Home
User Guide
The information contained in this section applies to IBM WebSphere Commerce Version 7.0.0.9 and Feautre Pack 8. The documentation also applies to all subsequent releases and modifications until otherwise indicated in new editions.
Administering
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.
Auctions
Before you can run auctions in your store, you must first enable auctions with WebSphere Commerce.
Updating store pages for products on auction
As a part of configuring auctions, you have the option to add an auctions link to product pages for items that go on auction. These updates are made by swapping cached product JSP pages in the database with JSP pages that include the auctions link. The swap is done at the time an auction starts. When the auction is closed, the JSP pages in the database are swapped back to the original product pages without the auctions link.

Updating store pages for products on auction

As a part of configuring auctions, you have the option to add an auctions link to product pages for items that go on auction. These updates are made by swapping cached product JSP pages in the database with JSP pages that include the auctions link. The swap is done at the time an auction starts. When the auction is closed, the JSP pages in the database are swapped back to the original product pages without the auctions link.

About this task

The advantage to swapping JSP pages is that a customer who is viewing a product page can know immediately if a product is on auction, and can proceed directly to the auctions rule page for that product.

Note: Enabling JSP page swapping may have a performance impact on your database updates, especially if you anticipate a high number of products on auction.

To enable page swapping for products on auction:

Procedure

Enable caching for auctions.
Restart WebSphere Commerce.