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JSP code snippet for e-Marketing Spots (WebSphere Commerce Accelerator)

This eMarketingSpotDisplay.jsp is built as a sample snippet to display an e-Marketing Spot in a store page. This e-Marketing Spot code supports all types of Web activities.

If you intend to display only one type of the campaign Web activity in the e-Marketing Spot, sections of the code that will not be used can be removed.


Prerequisites:

These two parameters are required by this code:

emsName

This file can be reused in different pages of the store by including it and giving a unique value for emsName, which should match exactly with an eMarketingSpot name that is defined in the WebSphere Commerce Accelerator.

catalogId

catalogId needs to be passed in as it is required to build the proper URL.


How to use this snippet

This is an example of how this file could be included into a page: 

<c:import
url="${jspStoreDir}include/eMarketingSpotDisplay.jsp"> 
<c:param name="emsName" value="ShoppingCartPage" /> 
<c:param name="catalogId" value="${WCParam.catalogId}" /> 
</c:import>

If special characters are used in the e-Marketing Spot name, and they need to be encoded in order to pass them successfully to this page through request parameter, the use the following technique to set the emsName parameter in the import statement: 

request.setAttribute("emsName", java.net.URLEncoder.encode("ShoppingCartPage"));

And retrieve it from the request when setting the parameter: 

<c:param name="emsName" value="${requestScope.emsName}"/>

eMarketingSpotDisplay.jsp contains absolute paths because it is referenced inside another JSP file, that is used as an e-mail template. In order for the e-mail content to be displayed properly, an absolute path to the images is required. If you are using this JSP file as part of the store front and not in the e-mail templates, you can change it to use relative paths. Note that if you do not make the change to the relative path, the browser might display the following SSL warning: your page is showing both secure and non-secure items do to display them?.


Related concepts

eSpots


Related tasks

Create e-Marketing Spots

Changing an e-Marketing Spot

Schedule a Web activity for an e-Marketing Spot

Delete e-Marketing Spots


Related information

Tutorial: Customizing the consumer direct sample store using snippets


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