A programmer creates the QFOfferSlot. When you create a slot, you select a content source, which is the slot’s repository (Offers, in this example) and a content type (HTML). Also, you determine how the slot will post the content items it contains.
To view the slot:
Open the Pages and Components > Components by Path screen.
Navigate to
atg/registry/Slots/QFOfferSlot.The bar across the bottom of the Components panel displays information about the selected component (
QFOfferSlot): the path, class, scope, and description. The scope indicates the level of persistence (options include session, global, and request). Session scope means the items in the slot will be discarded when the session ends.Note: Because
QFOfferSlotis session-wide, in thePromoteOverseasFundscenario, a visitor activates a trigger when viewing the international-related articles. Anytime throughout the session, a visit to the investor home page may render the related image in the slot. Once that visitor initiates a new session, the image won’t be available until the site activates the trigger again.Double-click
QFOfferSlotto open it in the Component Editor.
Inspect the items in the Properties tab. These values decide how the slot displays content.
The
generationproperty indicates whether the slot displays content received from scenarios (passive) or triggers a scenario to solicit content (active).The
orderingproperty selects from all items available in a slot, the order in which they display, either sequentially (following the chronology in which they were added) or randomly.The
retrievalproperty manages the retrieval process. Will all items display in a specific order and then be removed from the slot (destructive)? Or will that order repeat (static)? Can an item display multiple times in rotation (rotating)?
According to the QFOfferSlot settings, the slot displays items placed in it by scenarios (passive): it rotates the items it posts beginning with the first placed in the slot. For a complete discussion of slots, see Using Slots in the ATG Personalization Guide for Business Users.
