Commerce Connect + Campaign

The integration is included in the Optimizely.Campaign.Commerce NuGet package. See installing Optimizely.

The integration periodically transfers the latest product data from Optimizely Commerce Connect to Optimizely Campaign in a CSV format. The integration includes a scheduled job, Export Product Data To Campaign, to carry out this transfer. The job regularly collects Commerce Connect product data and exports it to a CSV file in a specified format. The file is automatically transferred to a specific folder on an Optimizely server. From there, it is imported into Campaign.

Integration details

Prerequisites

You send the public and private keys (also known as a fingerprint) to Optimizely. Then, Optimizely grants access to the system for that key. When setting up the Commerce Connect-Campaign integration, you convert the private key to an SSH key format and save it as a ".key" file. At that point, you use the key to authenticate the file transfer (as explained in episerver:campaign.SSHFilePath).

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Contact customer support to get the file name, Campaign client ID, FTP information including root folder directory path, and the path and passphrase to the SSH key file. Ensure that the FTP folder is properly set up prior to the first export.

Transfer file information

• Product ID
• Product name
• Product category, a string showing the category hierarchy delimited by hashtags (#). For example, Fashion#Mens#Mens Shoes.

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If a catalog's category exceeds 10 levels, only the first 10 appear in the transfer file.

• Text fields
• Image fields
• Link fields
• Additional data fields

Semicolons (;) delimit the transfer file elements. If you want to open the file in Excel, choose semicolons in the Delimiter field.

Configuration settings

To enable this transfer, add the following settings to the <appSettings> element of your Commerce web.config file.

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If the FTP credentials are incorrect, the transfer file is generated in Commerce Connect site but it cannot be transferred to Campaign server. The scheduled job fails.

The product data model

The ProductDataModel class (listed in the table below) contains the data being transferred to Campaign. Each instance of this class refers to a product item in the CSV template. For a more detailed description of product data, see Use CSV.

Customize data

You can modify how product entries are collected for export and customize the content of each product.
First, a market is selected (using the configured marketid in Configuration Settings). Next, catalogs are selected based on the market's default language, and products within those catalogs are collected. Because products are exported for marketing purposes, only products with a price are processed.

By default, entries under the selected catalogs are collected. To modify the list of collected products, implement IProductLoader.GetEntries().

For each product entry, a data line item is created. The basic fields in that line item are product id, name, and category. Other fields are optional. To customize that data, implement IProductFieldsHandler and override the corresponding methods.

• PopulateCategoryFields() – Populates the category path of the product, separated by the hash symbol (#). The Campaign system can process a maximum of 10 category levels.
• PopulateTextFields() – Populates the text values. Optimizely provides these default Text field values:
  • Text 1: product category
  • Text 2: product code
  • Text 3: product URL
  • Text 4: product unit price
  • Text 5: product discounted price
• PopulateImageFields() – Populates image text and image link.
• PopulateLinkFields() – Populates links.
• PopulateAdditionalDataFields() –. Populates additional data text.