Layouts are the design tools in Oracle Commerce Cloud that enable you to configure the look of your web store. They are also used by Oracle Experiments as the starting point for your experiments.

To access Oracle Experiments you must select a layout on the Design tab in Oracle Commerce Cloud, then click on the Experiments button and choose whether you wish to view experiments or add a new experiment.

If you select View Experiment, Oracle Experiments opens and displays the Home page. At this point, the Home page is filtered to only display experiments that use the layout you had selected as their control. If you remove the filter, Oracle Experiments displays all displays all experiments associated with your account. For more information on the functionality available at this point, please refer to the View experiments section of this document.

If you select Add Experiment, Oracle Experiments opens and displays the Experiment Configuration screen, with the layout you selected used as the control for the experiment. For more information on the functionality available at this point, please refer to the Create an experiment section of this document.

When you go to the Home page after adding an experiment, the layout filter is still in place, and the Home page only displays experiments which use that layout as the control. If you click on the New Experiment button at this point, a new experiment is created with that layout still selected as the control for the experiment.

If you remove the layout filter and click on New Experiment, the experiment that you create is not associated with any particular layout and is only shown within Oracle Experiments when no layout filter is in place.