Feature Pack 7 or later

Creating page-specific e-Marketing Spots for the E-Marketing Spot widget

If you add an E-Marketing Spot widget to a layout and choose page-specific e-Marketing Spots, each page to which the layout is assigned has its own generated e-Marketing Spot. For each page, you must use the Marketing tool to create the e-Marketing Spot and populate it with default content, or web activities, or both.

Before you begin

For general information about the e-Marketing Spot widget, read E-Marketing Spot widget.

About this task

This task assumes that you have a layout in progress in the Commerce Composer tool and the layout is assigned to multiple pages. This task begins at the point where you are adding the E-Marketing Spot widget to your layout. For more information about creating a layout, see Creating a layout for a page.

Procedure

  1. Add the E-Marketing Spot widget to a slot in your layout.
    The properties view for the E-Marketing Spot widget is displayed.
  2. In the Widget Properties section, set the properties.
  3. In the Widget Content section, complete these steps:
    1. In the E-Marketing Spot type field, select Page-specific e-Marketing Spot.
    2. In the Suffix field, type a suffix.
      Example: Row1Ad
  4. Click Save and Preview.
    The Store Preview Options window opens. The default Store URL is the first page to which you assigned the layout that contains the E-Marketing Spot widget.
  5. If the start date for the layout is in the future, complete these steps:
    1. Expand Options.
    2. Select Specify date and time, and then specify the start date for the layout.
  6. Click Launch Store Preview.
  7. At the top of the preview window, click Show Page Information.
    A Show Information button is displayed in the location of the slot that contains the page-specific e-Marketing Spot.
    Show Information button
  8. Click Show Information.
    In the Widget Information window, the name of the page-specific e-Marketing Spot is displayed in the Widget Content section of the page.
    Widget Information window
  9. To the right of the e-Marketing Spot name, click Create.
    WebSphere Commerce EnterpriseWebSphere Commerce ProfessionalTip: If you are working in an extended site, you might be prompted to select a store. If you want the e-Marketing Spot to be shared across all extended site stores, select the storefront asset store.

    The properties view for the new page-specific e-Marketing Spot is displayed. In the Name field, the generated e-Marketing Spot name is prefilled.

  10. Complete the properties for the e-Marketing Spot.
    In the Default title content and Default content fields, you can specify a default title and default content.
  11. Save and close the e-Marketing Spot.
  12. Optional: Create a web activity for this e-Marketing Spot. Do not forget to activate the web activity.
  13. To verify that the information in the E-Marketing Spot widget is displayed as expected on the page:
    1. Return to the layout in the Commerce Composer tool.
    2. Click Save and Preview.
      The Store Preview Options window opens.
    3. From the Store URL list, select the page.
    4. Click Launch Store Preview.
    5. Preview the page to make sure that the information is displayed in the page-specific e-Marketing Spot as expected.
  14. Begin the process of populating the E-Marketing Spot widget on the next page to which the layout is assigned:
    1. Return to the layout in the Commerce Composer tool.
    2. Click Save and Preview.
      The Store Preview Options window opens.
    3. From the Store URL list, select the next page to which the layout is assigned.
    4. Click Launch Store Preview.
  15. Repeat steps 7 through 14 for the remaining pages to which the layout is assigned.