Disabling/ Removing the “Other customers also purchased” in PDP page.

The default page layouts are used by default.

So follow the below steps carefully.

1.    Go to Database and search ”PAGELAYOUT” Table in that check for the corresponding column values NAME=DefaultProductPageLayout and PAGELAYOUT_ID=Product then its IsDefault should be made “0“ and commit.

2.       Now Go to CMC/Management center, Login then navigate to management center tools->Commerce composer.

3.       Go to “LAYOUTS” folder and double click.

4.       Find the Layout with Name as “DefaultProductPageLayout” then Navigate to its Design Layout settings.

5.       Then in the Layout find the corresponding “slot” That is two things should be noted as below

·         Title Number

·         Tab Number

Both title and tabs corresponding to the “Other customers also purchased” should be removed/Deleted from the Layout.

Steps To delete:

v  select the slots from “Layout slots and widgets”
v  Click on the    (Delete Icon).

6.       Now Save Your changes in Management center.

7.       Go to Database and search ”PAGELAYOUT” Table in that check for the corresponding column values NAME=DefaultProductPageLayout and PAGELAYOUT_ID=Product then its IsDefault should be made “1“ and commit.

8.       Test Your Changes in the Store Front.

Steps to remove Select Stores in PDP, Pick Up At stores in checkout page and Remove Store locator from Header

•            Go to Management Center and login.

•            Navigate to Marketing center tools -> Store Management.

•            Double click on “Stores” Folder and select the store to which you want to disable the feature.

•            In the corresponding store Settings Navigate to “Configurations” and uncheck “Store Locator Option” which will automatically change the buy online and pick up at store option.

•            The above change will also Remove “Store locator” from Header.

•            Save the changes and check for the changes in the store front.

WCS SOLr SERVER CONFIGURATION STEPS.

Pre-Requisites

Initially before configuring the Solr server we need to publish a store so that a store ID gets generated. To publish the store follow the following steps.

1 Open IBM => Web Commerce => Web Sphere enterprise

2 Project clean and build

3 Start the server

4 Go to C:\IBM\WCDE_ENT70 and open the file "hintsandtips.html"

5 Go and click on the "IBM Web Sphere Commerce Administration Console"

6 the Default User name: "wcsadmin" and password: "wcsadmin".

7 Change the password when asked

8 Then go to store Archives-Click and check publish status 
-NO STORES WILL BE PUBLISHED-

9 Go to Store Archives  Then Click on publish and publish a  aurora.sar  store as a Non-ATP (Not 

available to promise) inventory.

10 Then wait for the store publish to complete.

IBM WCS - Disabling/Enabling the product compare feature from PLP page.

Follow the Below Steps:

1. In Database, Search for "PAGELAYOUT" Table.Check for the Name="DefaultCategoryPageLayout" and confirm its "PAGELAYOUTTYPE_ID"="Category".
2. Note down it's corresponding "PAGELAYOUT_ID" eg: PAGELAYOUT_ID=10052 (in My case).
3. Then navigate to the "PLWIDGET" table in the Database.
4. Filter the rows with the "PAGELAYOUT_ID"(Noted in the Above step-2).In that navigate to the corresponding column "ADMINNAME" with value "CatalogEntryListWidget" and note its "PLWIDGET_ID" Eg: PLWIDGET_ID=1110 (In my case).
5. In Database now navigate to "PLWIDGETNVP" table and filter the rows with the "PLWIDGET_ID" fetched in the above step-4.
6. Now navigate to the row with value "NAME=disableProductCompare".
7. The corresponding Value column will have "false" by Default(which means the compare feature is enabled).
8. Now Make it "True" to Disable and "False" to Enable.

Note: The compare option will still be available in the search results page, To disable it repeat the same steps as above for the "Name=DefaultSearchResultLayout"  in the PAGELAYOUT table.

Note:- Finally To Test don't forget to do registry Update in the Admin console.