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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.
Linking an answer to a different metaphor
You can choose to link an answer in the question and answer tree to either a Product Exploration metaphor or a Product Comparison metaphor, so that a customer who selects that answer is directed to a different metaphor. You can link to any prepared metaphor in any category.

Deprecated feature

Linking an answer to a different metaphor

You can choose to link an answer in the question and answer tree to either a Product Exploration metaphor or a Product Comparison metaphor, so that a customer who selects that answer is directed to a different metaphor. You can link to any prepared metaphor in any category.

About this task

To link an answer to a different metaphor:

Procedure

Edit the XML input file
Locate the answer that you want to edit.
Insert a metaphorLink element. In the <metaphorName> element, enter the name of the metaphor that you want to link to. If you do not want to use the default metaphor link, change the value for the templateUsage element to 2.
Save the XML file.
Update the production server by importing the updated XML file.

Results

Note: If an answer links to a metaphor that either has not been created, or has been created and subsequently deleted, then the answer displays in the customer's browser as plain text. The customer will not be able to select that answer.