SDL Tridion 2013 SP1 SmartTarget With Fredhopper on Windows Machine

Fredhopper: SDL Fredhopper is a Customer Experience Management tool which provides a seamless, targeted and fully personalized website experience to the end users. The SDL Fredhopper enables the marketing team to target a specific segment of customer with all the right products or content which suits them best.

SmartTarget: SmartTarget is an add-on for SDL Tridion which integrates SDL Tridion with SDL Fredhopper. SmartTarget acts as a bridge between SDL Tridion and SDL Fredhopper so that Marketers can create, update and manage targeted and personalized content for SDL Tridion driven website.

1      configure fredhopper

 The document is developed for SDL Tridion 2013 SP1, smart target 2014 and fredhopper-7.5-revision-13.You first need to configure fredhopper. Assuming Odata Services and CD is already confirmed.

·         extract fredhopper-7.5-revision-13 in C :

      To download Fredhopper Link you would required valid credentials to login 

·         follow below command to configure the fredhopper

·         You need designated service account with username fredhopper  to configure fredhopper

·         ..\fredhopper\config Create a topology.txt in your Fredhopper config folder
                   # The topology file defines your indexing and live servers
                   # instance name | host | preset | indexer | comment
                      SmartTarget|localhost|1|-|Indexer and Preview environment for demo setup                                           SmartTargetLive|localhost|2|SmartTarget|Live Query Server for demo setup

       Where:

     SmartTarget is the Indexer Server (for getting content into Fredhopper)

                SmartTargetLive is the Query Server (for getting content out of Fredhopper)

1.       Open command prompt cmd /admin and execute the below commands in sequence always in new window.

o    bin\deployment-agent

 

o    bin\setup-cluster

2. In the ..\fredhopper\data\instances\SmartTarget folder, create a folder \custom.

3.  Copy configuration-management-rest-extension.jar and smarttarget_api_extension.jar to the \custom folder. 

4.  In the  ..\fredhopper\SmartTarget\data\fas-xml-incremental folder, create a folder \catalog01. 

And Copy the metadata.xml file to the \catalog01 folder. 

5.  Copy the trigger-types.xml and business.xml to C:\fredhopper\data\instances\SmartTarget\config folder. 

6.  Copy the STJob.kjb file to the ..\fredhopper\data\instances\etl folder. 

7.  Start up the SmartTarget or SmartTargetLive instance using the command:

8.  Execute below commands

o    bin\instance SmartTarget start

o    bin\deployment-agent-client –location localhost invoke SmartTarget qserver stop

o    bin\deployment-agent-client –location localhost invoke SmartTarget qserver start

o    bin\run-etl-job STjob.kjb “-DINSTANCE=SmartTarget” “-DTRIGGER=load-data”

 “-DUNIVERSE=catalog01” “-DEXECUTIONPATH=C:/fredhopper/data/instances/SmartTarget/custom”

           9.       Browse to the Fredhopper Business Manager:
     10. http://localhost:8180/fredhopper/admin/ 

   

          11.   Use the credentials admin/admin to log on. (The Business Manager connects to the Indexer Server.)
    
      

      2.Steps for Smart Target static implementation:

Install SmartTarget 2014 available in installation media

Click On Targeting Option

1   .      Create PT for page

1.1.  Add Extract Components from Page tbb.

1.2. Create DWT(Suppose name as ST Region DWT) having content as

<tcdl:region id="Sidebar" type="SmartTarget">

</tcdl:region>

1.3.  Default Finish Actions

1.4.  Open Template Building Block to create PT for page(Suppose name as Smart Target PT)

1.5.  Drag DWT “ST Region DWT” to PT “Smart Target PT”

1.6.  Add SmartTarget Query tbb

1.7.  Add Promotions tbb

1.8.  Add Show SmartTarget Navigation tbb

1.9.  Add Search SmartTarget tbb

1.10.Add Show SmartTarget Items tbb

1.11.Add Apply SmartTarget Settings tbb

1.12. Configure parameter values of above tbbs

1.13.Run PT with page and check if it is working fine

2  .      Create dynamic CT for promotion component

Create a dynamic Component Template (Suppose SendContentToFredhopper) in Template Builder which uses the “Add to SmartTarget” Template Building Block to send content to Fredhopper.

2.1. Add Default DreamWeaver Component Design DWT

2.2.  Add “Add to SmartTarget” tbb

2.3.  Add Default finish action tbb

2.4.  Save and close CT.

2.5.  Add your promotion component schema(Suppose Promotion) as a linked schema

3  .      Create promotion component

Create a component (Suppose “ST Promotion”) with schema “Promotion”.

4  .      Create Promotion

Create a promotion by going to Targeting Tab of CME. Use Trigger as current date.

5  .      Create page

Create a page using PT “Smart Target PT” having component “ST Promotion” and CT “SendContentToFredhopper”.

Execute your Page

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