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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.
Developing
The topics in the Developing section describe tasks performed by an application developer.
Presentation layer
WebSphere Commerce uses Java Server Pages (JSP) to implement the view layer of the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern. The view layer is in charge of retrieving data from the database through the use of data beans and formatting it to meet the display requirements. The view layers determines whether the request is sent to a browser or streamed out as XML. JSP files present a clean separation between data content and presentation.
Customizing marketing
Working with Product Advisor
Creating a metaphor XML input file
Create an XML input file to specify which store's metaphors you want to build, update, or delete with the create metaphor scheduler command.
Preparing a Guided Sell metaphor
The steps in this section explain how to prepare Guided Sell metaphor.
Editing the question and answer tree
This section contains links to sections dealing with editing the question and answer tree.
Copying and pasting a question or answer
You can copy a question or an answer that you entered in one part of the question and answer tree and paste it to a different part of the tree.

Deprecated feature

Copying and pasting a question or answer

You can copy a question or an answer that you entered in one part of the question and answer tree and paste it to a different part of the tree.

About this task

To copy and paste a question or answer:

Edit the XML input file
Locate the question or answer element that you want to copy.
Highlight and the entire element, including all of the elements that it contains, and use the text editor's tools to copy the selected text. The selected item and all the questions and answers that follow it in the tree are copied and placed on the clipboard.
If you are copying a question, set the cursor inside of the answer element in which you want to paste it. If you are copying an answer, set the cursor inside the question element in which you want to paste it.
Use the text editor's tools to paste the selected text.
Save the XML file.
Update the production server by importing the updated XML file.

Note: You can also use the copy and paste functions to copy questions and answers from one question and answer tree to another.