Pricing and Availability System Integration

PTC Arbortext Content Delivery Customization > Customizing Shopping Parameters > Pricing and Availability System Integration

This section details customizations you can make to display or hide pricing and availability information and recommendation information.

These customizations require familiarity with the windchill shell and propagating properties as well as using the xconfmanager utility. For information on these topics see:

• About the windchill shell

• About the xconfmanager Utility

Displaying Pricing and Availability Information

To display pricing and availability information, a custom delegate needs to be created as follows:

1. Create a custom Java class that implements the com.ptc.sc.services.plugins.PricingDelegate interface.

2. The display of the price is determined by the implementation of below method in custom delegate: public boolean isPricingAutomatic();

If this returns true then price and availability will be retrieved and shown in UI with no user action required. If this returns false then the user must click the content action to get pricing and availability. Pricing and availability can be hidden by toggling the action to off.

3. Add the following entry into the <WT_HOME>\codebase.war\com\ptc\sc\xconf\sc.service.properties.xconf file specifying the custom pricing delegate:

<Service context="default" name="com.ptc.sc.services.plugins.
PricingDelegate">
<Option serviceClass="<customDelegateClassName>"
requestor="null" cardinality="duplicate" />
</Service>

4. From a Windchill command line, run the following command: xconfmanager -pF

5. Restart the PTC Arbortext Content Delivery server.

For more information, see the PricingDelegate Javadoc.

Hiding Pricing and Availability Information

To hide pricing and availability information in the UI, disable the custom delegate as follows:

1. Navigate to the <WT_Home>\SW\Applications\Windchill.ear\codebase.war\com\ptc\sc\xconf\ directory. Open the sc.service.properties.xconf file.

2. Search for ‘DemoPricingDelegate’ and comment out the section as shown below.

3. Save and close sc.service.properties.xconf file.

4. From a Windchill command line, run the following command: xconfmanager -pF

5. Restart the PTC Arbortext Content Delivery server.

Displaying Recommendation Information

To display recommendation information, a custom delegate needs to be created as follows:

1. Create a directory to put a custom Java class that implements com.ptc.sc.services.plugins.RecommendationDelegate, which can be found in the <WT_Home>\SW\Applications\Windchill.ear\codebase.war\com\ptc\sc\services\plugins directory.

2. Create a custom java class that implements the com.ptc.sc.services.plugins.RecommendationDelegate interface.

3. Add the following entry into the \ACD\SW\Applications\Windchill.ear\site.xconf file specifying the custom recommendation delegate.

<Service context="default" name"com.ptc.sc.services.plugins.
RecommendationDelegate">
<Option serviceClass="<customDelegateClassName>"
requestor="null"
cardinality="duplicate" />
</Service>

4. Save and close site.xconf file.

5. From a Windchill command line, run the following command: xconfmanager -pF

6. Restart the PTC Arbortext Content Delivery server.

Hiding Recommendation Information

To hide recommendation information from the UI, disable the demo recommendation delegate as follow:

1. Navigate to the <WT_Home>\SW\Applications\Windchill.ear\codebase.war\com\ptc\sc\xconf\ directory. Open the sc.service.properties.xconf file.

2. Search for ‘DemoRecommendationDelegate’ and comment out the section as shown below:

<Service context="default" name"com.ptc.sc.services.plugins.
RecommendationDelegate">
<Option serviceClass="<customDelegateClassName>"
requestor="null"
cardinality="duplicate" />
</Service>

3. Save and close sc.service.properties.xconf file.

4. From a Windchill command line, run the following command: xconfmanager -pF

5. Restart the PTC Arbortext Content Delivery server.