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Disable the promotions tool in the WebSphere Commerce Accelerator

Overview

Once you have decided to use the new Promotion tool in the Management Center, disable the promotions tool in the WebSphere Commerce Accelerator to prevent the business users from creating promotions using both Accelerator and Management Center.

The promotions tool in Accelerator is under the "Marketing" menu selection.

Procedure

1. Navigate to...

   wc_profiledir/xml/tools/common

2. Open CommerceAcceleratorB2C.xml in an editor.

3. Locate the following entry:

   <menuitem name="marketing"
             enabled="true" 
             taskUsages="all" 
             users="buyer catMgr makMgr podMgr seller">
   

4. Within that entry, locate the "promotions" node entry:

   <node name="promotions"
         component="RulesBasedDiscount"
         url="$webapp_accelerator$NewDynamicListView?ActionXMLFile=RLPromotion.RLPromotionList&cmd=RLDiscountListView"
         taskUsages="all"
         users="buyer catMgr makMgr podMgr seller"/>  
   

5. Place an XML comment around this element, so that it resembles the following:

   <!--  
   <node name="promotions"
         component="RulesBasedDiscount"
         url="$webapp_accelerator$NewDynamicListView?ActionXMLFile=RLPromotion.RLPromotionList&cmd=RLDiscountListView"
         taskUsages="all"
         users="buyer catMgr makMgr podMgr seller"/> 
   -->
   

6. Copy the changed files for your store types to...

   wc_eardir/xml/tools/common

7. Deploy the updated file to the application server.

8. Stop and restart the server for the changes to take effect.

What to do next

Verify that the business users will not see the menu items that you have removed, by logging onto Accelerator and checking the menu items. Once you have confirmed that the system is operating correctly using the new Management Center tools, you can remove the commented sections of Accelerator configuration file. You may also want to modify the information shown on Accelerator home page for the store type to remove the information about what the menu items contain so that the business users are not misled.

For example, the highlights listed under "Merchandise" and "Marketing" sections on the main screen (AcceleratorHomeB2C.jsp) indicate functions that are going to be commented in the previous section, which are being moved to the Management Center.

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