EMarketing spot and content spot

e-Marketing Spots Using Accelerator

• Click Marketing > e-Marketing Spots in Accelerator
• Click New. The New e-Marketing Spot wizard opens, enabling you to define your e-Marketing Spot.
• Complete the e-Marketing Spot Definition page as appropriate.
• Click Finish to save the e-Marketing Spot.
• If you already have a Web activity click Add
• Select the check box to the left of the Web activity that you want to schedule for this e-Marketing spot. Click Add to return to the e-Marketing Spot Properties page. The selected Web activity now displays in the Scheduled Web Activities list.
• Specify a Start Date and End Date for the Web activity.
• Click OK to save the schedule assignment.
• Add the e-Marketing Spot to the JSP file by dynamically including the spot using the JSTL <c:import> tag structure with any associated parameters. Your code should look similar to the following:

<c:import url="../../include/eMarketingSpotDisplay.jsp">
   <c:param name="emsName" value="StoreHomePage" />
   <c:param name="maxNumDisp" value="8" />
   <c:param name="catalogId" value="${WCParam.catalogId}" />
   <c:param name="maxItemsInRow" value="4" />
   <c:param name="maxColInRow" value="3" />
</c:import>

Working with e-Marketing Spots(Management Center)

• open the Management center
• From the explorer view, click E-Marketing Spots. The E-Marketing Spots - List page opens.

• From the toolbar, click the arrow on the right side of Create New; then select e-Marketing Spot. The New e-Marketing Spot page displays.

• Enter the e-Marketing Spot properties:
  
• Click Save.
  
• Use the WebServiceeMarketingSpotDisplay.jsp sample snippet to display an e-Marketing Spot in a store page. The code uses Web services to call the marketing runtime to get the data to display in the e-Marketing Spot. Use this snippet for e-Marketing Spots that are used in Web activities managed with the Management Center.
  
• The WebServiceeMarketingSpotDisplay.jsp file is available under the following directory:
  

• WC_installdir\samples\Snippets\web\Marketing\Campaigns
• WCDE_installdir\samples\Snippets\web\Marketing\Campaigns
  

• Add the e-Marketing Spot to the JSP file by dynamically including the e-Marketing Spot using the JSTL <c:import> tag structure with any associated parameters. Your code should look similar to the following example:

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

Content spots

1. Open the WebSphere Commerce Accelerator
2. Click Store > Content Spots. The Content Spot list displays, containing the content spots currently defined for the selected store.
3. Click New. The New content spot wizard opens, enabling you to define your content spot.
4. Complete the Content spot Definition page as appropriate.
5. Click Finish to save the content spot. The content spot is displayed in the content spots list.
   
6. In the description box just add comments with parameter like {SampleParam} is came from the Jsp page using params.
   
7. If you already have content click Add. This opens the Content selection list.
   
8. Select the check box to the left of the content that you want to schedule for this content spot. Click Add to return to the Content Spot Properties page. The selected content now displays in the Scheduled Content list.
   
9. Specify a Start Date and End Date, and select the order value for the content. The order value helps determine which content to display when multiple contents are scheduled to display in the same content spot. The content which has an order value of 1 is the highest priority content, and will display before other content that the customer is qualified to view. The content can be moved in the Order list using the Move up and Move down buttons.
   
10. Click OK to save the schedule assignment.
    
11. Select the page and place to place this content spot and add the content spot to the JSP file by dynamically including the spot using the JSTL <c:import> tag structure with any associated parameters. Your code should look similar to the following:

<c:import url="${jspStoreDir}/Snippets/Marketing/Content/ContentSpotDisplay.jsp">
    <c:param name="spotName" value="HelpSpot_part1" />
    <c:param name="substitutionValues" value="{storeName},${storeName}" />
    <c:param name="substitutionValues" value="{SampleParam},SampleParam" />
</c:import>