Enabling the WebSphere Commerce search contract price index in Feature Pack 7

You can enable the search contract price index in Feature Pack 7 so that you can build the contract price index using the calculate price utility when you deploy a B2B starter store. The utility updates the information in the price index based on the pricing model your store uses. For example, for a B2B starter store, the price index is built to display contract prices in the storefront.

Before you begin

Install APAR JR52667.

Procedure

Set up the search index structure.
1. Backup your existing search directory:
  - WC_installdir/instances/instance_name/search
  - WC_instance_root/search
  - WCDE_installdir\search
2. Delete the following directories:
  - search/pre-processConfig
  - search/solr/home/MC_masterCatalogId
3. Setup the WebSphere Commerce search index. Performing this task recreates the search directory structure using the SetupSearchIndex utility.
4. Merge your previous customizations into the new search directory structure using the backed up search data.
Build the contract price index. Performing this task updates your stores pricing model and rebuilds the search index and price index accordingly.

Update the storefront JSP files so that the store uses the updated pricing model.

Update all store JSP files that pass the current contract information to the search server when issuing a search REST request for browsing or searching:

The following variable holds the current contract:


<c:set var="env_activeContractIds" value="${fn:split(CommandContext.currentTradingAgreementIdsAsString, ';')}" scope="request"/>

Use the following snippet when calling the search REST services:


<c:forEach var="contractId" items="${env_activeContractIds}">
   <wcf:param name="contractId" value="${contractId}"/>
</c:forEach>

For example, in bold:


<wcf:rest var="categoryHierarchy" url="${searchHostNamePath}${searchContextPath}/store/${WCParam.storeId}/categoryview/@top" format="json" >
   <c:if test="${!empty WCParam.langId}">
   <wcf:param name="langId" value="${WCParam.langId}"/>
   </c:if>
   <c:if test="${empty WCParam.langId}">
   <wcf:param name="langId" value="${langId}"/>
   </c:if>
   <wcf:param name="responseFormat" value="json"/>   
   <wcf:param name="catalogId" value="${WCParam.catalogId}"/>
   <wcf:param name="depthAndLimit" value="${depthAndLimit}"/>
	 	<c:forEach var="contractId" items="${env_activeContractIds}">
   	<wcf:param name="contractId" value="${contractId}"/>
   </c:forEach>
	</wcf:rest>

Update the following price facet files to include multiple contract prices in the storefront.
- PriceFacetDisplay.jspf
- widgettext.properties
For example: