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Content Slots in B2C Commerce
You can embed a content slot in any part of your storefront site, to show products, categories, content assets, or static HTML based on a schedule. A content asset can be a flash graphic, product carousel, product search result set, or marketing graphic. Use Business Manager to create and schedule a slot configuration, instead of changing storefront code. This topic applies to B2C Commerce.
We’ve developed the B2C Commerce Platform Adoption Playbook: Content Slots, which walks you through the basics of how to use content slots for promotional and personalized messaging on your site.
If you know where you want to add content in the storefront, use the Storefront
toolkit Content Information Tool to identify content slots in the storefront. If you
select the content information tool in the toolkit and hover over the area where you want
to add content, if there’s a content slot you see an Edit Content link.
Clicking the link opens the correct content slot.
You create a slot configuration that specifies the content to show, the schedule when it appears, and any rules for choosing what content appears in the content slot.
Slotting Rules
Salesforce B2C Commerce slotting rules specify what content appears at any given time within a slot type. Use promotion or customer group rules to determine the content shown in the slot.
For a category slot: "Boat Shoes: They Look Good All Four Seasons", you might want to show different products based on the season for a specific (men's) category. The default content is to show the top selling product (boat shoes). You might want to create the following slot configurations for the top slot on the category landing page.
| Name | Start Date | End Date | Content | Template |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Default Teasers | 10/1/2013 | 5/1/2014 | Product: S177809 | slot/render_productl.isml |
| Summer Teasers | 6/1/2014 | 8/30/2014 | Product: S1996574, S2049054, S2126724 | slot/render_product.isml |
| Fall Teasers | 10/1/2014 | 11/30/2014 | Product: S2394357, S2409634, S2409633 | slot/render_product.isml |
