Test the integration by using Management
Center to launch IBM Web Content Manager for
authoring and selecting content to use within Management Center.
About this task
To test the integration, you can launch IBM Web Content Manager from
multiple points in Management Center. The following steps test the
integration by retrieving content to use as an associated asset for
a product. The following steps also test the integration by retrieving
content to display as marketing content in a marketing activity. You
can also test your integration by launching IBM Web Content Manager to
select any kind of content for multiple types of Management Center
objects. You can launch IBM Web Content Manager for
any point where you can select a piece of content.
Procedure
Log on to Management Center to verify that you can use
punch-out option for content to launch IBM Web Content Manager.
Ensure that you can access content in your content libraries in IBM Web Content Managerand
import information for the content (paths) into Management Center.
- Open the Catalogs tool.
- Optional: If workspaces are enabled, select
to work on approved content.
- Locate a product that you want to associate a piece of
content with as an associated asset.
For example, a
thumbnail or a full image.
- Right-click the product; then click Open.
The product properties view displays.
- Click the Associated Assets tab.
- For the Associated asset table, select URL in the dropdown
menu. Select the Edit managed content button next to the URL
entry in the table. The punch-out window to IBM Web Content Manager opens.
Ensure that you are automatically logged on to the application. If
the automatic logon occurs, the single sign-on between the applications is
successful.
- Select a piece of content in IBM Web Content Manager and
save your selection. The window closes. Ensure that the URL to the
content you selected in IBM Web Content Manager displays
as the associated asset for the product in Management Center.
- Save your changes.
- Right-click the URL entry in the Associated asset table.
Click Preview. Locate the product in the storefront
and verify that the associated content from IBM Web Content Manager displays
for the product.
Verify that Management Center can retrieve content from IBM Web Content Manager for
use as marketing content in marketing activities in the storefront.
- Open the Assets tool.
- From the toolbar, click the
Create New icon;
then select Attachment. - Enter information into the mandatory fields for the content.
For the Files or URLs table, select URL in
the dropdown menu. Select the Edit managed content button next
to the URL entry in the table. The punch-out window to IBM Web Content Manager opens.
- Select a piece of content in IBM Web Content Manager and
save your selection. The window closes and you return to working within
Management Center. Ensure that the URL to the content you selected
in IBM Web Content Manager displays
as the associated asset for the product in Management Center.
- Save your changes.
- Open the Marketing tool.
- From the toolbar, click the Create New icon;
then select Content.
- Enter information into the mandatory fields for the content.
For the Content type, select Asset.
- In the Associated asset table, add
the attachment that contains content that is retrieved from IBM Web Content Manager.
You can also select to search or browse for content and directly retrieve
content from IBM Web Content Manager as
an associated asset.
- Create a web activity that displays content. Include the
marketing content that you created in the activity. Activate the activity.
- Open store preview. Locate the e-Marketing Spot that displays
the activity in the storefront and verify that the content from IBM Web Content Manager displays.
Results
If the content retrieved from IBM Web Content Manager displays
successfully in Management Center and the storefront, the integration
is complete.
