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Enable auctions

Before you can run auctions in the store, first enable auctions with WebSphere Commerce.

Enable acutions with Configuration Manager

1. Open the Configuration Manager.

2. From the left navigation within Configuration Manager, expand WebSphere Commerce > host > Instance List > Components > Auctions.

3. From the right window within Configuration Manager, in the SMTP Server field, type the name of the SMTP server.

4. In the Reply Email field, enter the e-mail address of the person who will be sending auction notification messages and receiving responses to them. Typically, this person will be a Site Administrator.

5. Select Enable Component to auctions.

6. Click Apply. A message displays to indicate that the system has successfully configured this component.

7. Close Configuration Manager.

8. Restart WebSphere Commerce.

Enable acutions with Accelerator

1. Open WebSphere Commerce Accelerator.

2. From the Store menu, select Change Flow.

3. From the left navigation frame, click Catalog and select Include auctions.

4. Logon to the corresponding storefront and in the footer, under ORDER TRACKING, the Auctions link is displayed.

Schedule aution jobs

Schedule the following auctions jobs at the site-level.

• CompleteOrder
• DoAuctionNotify
• FinalizeAuction
• MonitorAuction
• ProcessAutoBids
• ProcessDutchBids
• ProcessOpenCryBids

See

• Configure a store for auctions
  To run auctions in a store, configure the store to use auctions.

• Changing delay times for auction messages
  One of the tasks of the scheduler is to send auction notification messages to customers at a specified time or interval. The scheduler is also responsible for periodically sending any unread notification messages to the customer, based on its frequency setting. You can control the length of time that a customer has to view an auction notification message before it is scheduled to be sent as an e-mail. This length of time is known as its delay time.

• Changing the frequency of auction scheduler jobs
  You can change the frequency with which the scheduler performs commands relating to auctions.

• Update store pages for products on auction
  As a part of configuring auctions, you have the option to add an auctions link to product pages for items that go on auction. These updates are made by swapping cached product JSP pages in the database with JSP pages that include the auctions link. The swap is done at the time an auction starts. When the auction is closed, the JSP pages in the database are swapped back to the original product pages without the auctions link.

• Process a bid with the status WF
  The CompleteOrder scheduler command creates orders for winning bids. If a problem occurs while creating the order, the bid status is set to WF and the order is not created.

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