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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 another Guided Sell metaphor
You can link the last answer in the question and answer tree of one category to the first question in the question and answer tree of any other category, so that a customer who selects that answer is directed to another Guided Sell metaphor.

Deprecated feature

Linking an answer to another Guided Sell metaphor

You can link the last answer in the question and answer tree of one category to the first question in the question and answer tree of any other category, so that a customer who selects that answer is directed to another Guided Sell metaphor.

About this task

To link an answer to another Guided Sell metaphor:

Procedure

Edit the XML input file
Locate the answer that you want to edit.
Insert a metaphorLink element.
In the <metaCategoryId> element, enter the category reference number of the metaphor that you want to link to.
In the <templateName> element, enter the template to use to view the metaphor that you want to link to.
Save the XML file.
Update the production server by importing the updated XML file.