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Creating Cross-Sell and Up-Sell Messages
An eConfigurator application can act as a virtual sales assistant. If a user configures a product, the Sales application lets the user know that the selection resulted in a valid product. If a user selects a particular product, eConfigurator can also point the user to a better product for their needs or a product accessory. You provide this guidance by adding exception messages to your Configuration tables.
Cross-sells are accessories for a product or any special offers.
Up-sells are similar products, usually an upgrade to the currently configured product.
There are two steps for adding cross-sell and up-sell messages.
- Adding a cross-sell or up-sell message to your data model.
You will add the message to an output non-RULE column in the appropriate configuration rows.
- Adding a cross-sell or up-sell link.
You will add a LINK control to your Output UI.You will edit the file that displays your UI to provide a location where the message will appear followed by a link to the recommended cross-sell or up-sell items.
The procedures for each step are described in the following section. They describe adding an up-sell message, but the steps are the same for both cross-sell and up-sell messages. When adding a cross-sell message, substitute up-sell with cross-sell in the instructions that follow.
For information on creating cross-sells and up-sells that link to the server-based eConfigurator, see Example in Runtime Interaction with the Server-Based eConfigurator.
To add a cross-sell or up-sell message to your data model
- In the Configuration Table designer, add two new rows above the RULE row.
- Name one of the rows UPSELL_LINK.
This column requires the pagest ID of the linked pageset.
- Name the other row "UPSELL_MSG."
This column will include the up-sell message.
- Enter a value of 0 in the Column Type field of both rows.
- Select the Configuration table you want to add the up-sell message to and select the Editor tab.
- In the UPSELL_LINK column, enter the pageset ID of the linked pageset in each row of valid configuration data for which an up-sell link is applicable.
- In the UPSELL_MSG column, enter the text and any HTML formatting tags for the up-sell message.
To add a cross-sell or up-sell link
- In the Output UI tab, create a new LINK control.
- Choose a table and column.
- In the Output UI record, check the Pageset column to indicate that the value in the column is a Pageset ID and not a URL.
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Siebel Interactive Designer Administration Guide Published: 18 April 2003 |