Monday, June 16, 2014

Facebook integration in WCS 7.0

The following step by step instructions will help some one to integrate facebook with WCS Aurora store
  • Open Store Management Tool from Management Center
  • Select the store in which you want to enable face book and open the store via double clicking
  • Select Configuration tab
  • Check the check box named "Facebook Integration" and save
  • The next step is to register the site to face book. If you don't have a facebook developer a/c please register as a developer first
  • Then "Create Application" button in the Facebook developer page and provide the details(You can create 'N' number of applications for each environments like testing,uat prod etc)
  • It will create the AppID. Add the generated to the WCS Database via providing the sql insert into storeconf(STOREENT_ID,NAME,VALUE) values (10001,'wc.facebook.application_id', 'fb_app_id_returned');
  • In the settings session on the Apps session of the Facebook developer page, select the Settings. Then press the "Add Platform" button and select type of application as website
  • The system ask you to enter the url enter http://localhost/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/en/aurora as the url and press Save changes
  • Restart the server
  • Now when you are going to the storefront you will see the "Connect to Facebook" link the header session
  • You can see the statistics in the Dashboard page of Facebook developer
Reference : http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSZLC2_7.0.0/com.ibm.commerce.aurora-starterstore.doc/concepts/csmsocfbint_aurora.htm?lang=en