sdl tridion webinar an introduction to smarttarget john winter & tanner brine november 2013
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SDL Tridion Webinar
An introduction to SmartTargetJohn Winter & Tanner Brine
November 2013
About this presentation
• High level overview of SmartTarget• How to implement in SDL Tridion templates• Plugging in Custom ADF Cartridges• Creating promotions inside Smart Target• Some final tips to save you some time• Question session
What is SmartTarget?
Targeted content•Promotions•Search•Navigation & Facets
SmartTarget Architecture
Let’s take a look
What to do in SDL Tridion
• Configure deployer to publish content to SmartTarget
• Install SmartTarget TBB library• Include ‘Add to SmartTarget’
TBB into your Component Templates
• Add SmartTarget Regions to your page layout…
SmartTarget Page Regions
<tcdl:region id="HomepagePromotions" type="SmartTarget”> <!– Content here is rendered as a ‘fallback’--> <!-- TemplateEndRepeat --> </tcdl:region>
Adding your own data
Create your cartridge •member_cartridge_conf.xml
•cd_ambient_conf.xml
Adding your own data
• SmartTarget_conf.xml
• trigger-types.xml
Creating a new promotion
• Demo via my lovely colleague Tanner Brine
Some tips
• ST Logs are great
2013-11-12 10:02:13,743 DEBUG Query - Executing query: fh_location=//catalog01/en_US&cb_member_authenticated=false&cx_os_model=Windows+7&cx_device_displayWidth=1920&taf_request_full_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.smarttarget.com%2Fhome.aspx&cx_device_model=Other&cx_browser_displayHeight=769&taf_response_cookie_generation=true&cx_browser_version=30&taf_tracking_id=tridion_2e828270-6c3e-4b74-a21a-dce056210d17&cx_device_displayHeight=1080&cx_device_pixelRatio=1&cx_browser_displayWidth=1020&cx_browser_model=Chrome
Tips continued…
• Create a page to show the contents of your ADF
Last tip…
• Use the ‘Preview’ to test returned content:
Finally!
• Thanks to Julian, Peter, Nuno and all at SDL • Thanks to Tanner & Mark Saunders @ CB for the test
ADF cartridge• Hire Content Bloom immediately for any SDL Tridion
and SmartTarget efforts – we rule!– [email protected]– http://www.contentbloom.com– http://www.twitter.com/contentbloom