ISTORE SETUP
CATALOG CREATION
Go to the below responsibility:-
iStore Administrator
1. Navigate to Catalog Tab to see Hierarchy.
2. Click Section image in Accessories Section which is root section. This will create a new section and open up a page to set the various properties.
3. Select Accessories as parent section and mark the Status as Published.
4. Update other fields viz. Section name, Section Code, Description etc.
5. There are Mandatory Product (inventory ) Attributes setup in Oracle inventory viz. Web Status Flag – Published, Orderable on web – Yes, OE Translatable – Yes, Customer Order Enabled- Yes.
6. Similarly all iStore products should be present in pricelist used while iStore Site Creation setup and Order Management Workflow should be assigned to the order type used in iStore (order type profile option)
SITE CREATION
Below steps will create an iStore website.
1. Click Sites tab at the top page
2. Click Create Sites Button to open page ‘Update Site Details” Update the Site Name, Description fields
3. Set Default Language to “American English”
4. Set Default Currency to “US Dollar”
5. Set Walk-in Pricelist to “CKMS Pricelist” or any valid pricelist
6. Set Catalog Root Section to Newly Created Section in previous slides
7. Check all check boxes except (Restrict customer access by responsibility)
8. Click Apply to save the changes
9. Click Payment Link on LHS of update sites screen. Add the necessary payment type (invoice/credit card etc).
10. Click Apply to save changes
11. Click Shipment Link on LHS of update Sites Screen
12. Add necessary Shipping methods
13. Click Apply to Save the changes
14. Click Responsibility link on LHS of Update Sites Screen and add IBE_CUSTOMER responsibility and click apply to save the changes
15. Click Access Link on LHS and Select No Restrictions button and save the changes
ISTORE CUSTOMIZATIONS- TIPS
1 If User Interface requirements are not fulfilled by seeded templates the JSP customizations will be required.
2 The new JSPs will be created based on seeded JSPs which will be attached to seeded Display Templates using Template Manager screen of iStore Administrative site
3 To reflect any changes in JSPs, Item Attributes, Prices etc. Web server will have to be bounced.
4 To view source code of class files used in JSPs developer needs to have following tools
5 Java Decompilers e.g.DJ Java Decompiler 3.9, Jcavaj , JSP editor like JDeveloper or even text editor editplus is sufficient
6 To get information about JSP is getting displayed (which is not necessarily same as jsp name in URL) while using iStore site, use following steps
7 Copy the hard coded texts from JSP page e.g. field label etc.
8 Login to Oracle Applications as Application Developer and navigate to message maintenance screen
9 All hard codes labels/texts in iStore are store as Messages in Database with message code starting from IBE%
10 Get the appropriate message code by querying messages screen
11 Login to UNIX and change directory to $COMMON_TOP/html
12 Use grep command to file given message code in iStore JSPs which will will give list of all JSPs containing given message code e.g.
grep -l “IBE_YOUR_PRICE_COL” ibe*.jsp
