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Guided Sell metaphor
The Guided Sell metaphor is intended for customers who are not sure where to start. It presents them with a series of multiple-choice questions, where each answer determines the next question. You can create as many answers as you want for a given question. For each answer, you can create one subsequent question.
As the customer works through the questions, the information provided by each answer is collected and an increasingly refined list of products matching the given answers is determined. The customer can choose to view this list at any time or to continue with the questions. By default, the answers to the last question available will link to a Product Comparison metaphor. This Product Comparison metaphor must be previously defined. When the last question is answered, a list of matching products displays automatically. This default can be overridden to target a different metaphor or a different URL.
The Guided Sell metaphor is the only metaphor that can be prepared without having a fully prepared search space. You can also use the Guided Sell metaphor to create a simple knowledge or navigation tree for the site that leads customers to various pages on the site by omitting constraints for the answers.
Restriction: The Guided Sell metaphor is not supported in the extended sites model.
- Add new features to a metaphor
The steps in this section explain how to add features to a metaphor.
- View the metaphor summary
The steps in this section explain how to view details of the Product Exploration or Product Comparison metaphors.
- View the Guided Sell list
You can list all Guided Sell metaphors in a store.
- Create a Guided Sell for a category
The steps in this section explain how to create a Guided Sell for a category.
- Changing the default link of a Guided Sell
This steps in this section explain how to change the default link of a Guided Sell.
- Delete a Guided Sell
The steps in this section explain how to delete a Guided Sell.
- Preview a Guided Sell
The steps in this section explain how to preview a Guided Sell metaphor.
- Publish a Guided Sell
The steps in this section explain how to publish a Guided Sell.
- Unpublish a Guided Sell
This section explains how to unpublish a Guided Sell.
- View the questions of a Guided Sell
You can view the questions of a Guided Sell metaphor.
- View the Q and A Tree of a Guided Sell
The steps in this section explain how to view the questions and answers of a Guided Sell.
- Create a question for a Guided Sell
This steps in this section explain how to create a question for a Guided Sell.
- Changing a question for a Guided Sell
The steps in this section explain how to change a question for the Guided Sell.
- Delete a question for a Guided Sell
The steps in this section explain how to delete a question for a Guided Sell.
- Delete a question and its links
This steps in this section explain how to delete a question and its links.
- Create an answer for a question
The steps in this section explain how to create an answer for a question.
- Changing an answer for a question
The steps in this section explain how to change an answer for a question of the Guided Sell.
- Create a link to an answer
The steps in this section explain how to create a link to an answer.
- Changing a link to an answer
The steps in this section explain how to change a link for an answer.
- Create constraints for an answer
This section explains how to create constraints for an answer.
- Changing constraints for an answer
The steps in this section explain how to change constraints for an answer.
- Changing the display sequence of an answer
The steps in this section explain how to change the display sequence of an answer.
- Delete a link to an answer
This steps in this section explain how to delete a link for an answer.
- Delete an answer of a question
This section explains how to delete an answer of a question for a Guided Sell.
- Delete an answer and its links
The steps in this section explain how to delete an answer and its links for a question of the Guided Sell.
- Delete constraints for an answer
The steps in this section explain how to delete constraints for an answer.
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