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 page in 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 Experiments, Oracle Experiments opens and displays the Experiments dashboard. At this point, the Experiments dashboard 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 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 Experiments dashboard after adding an experiment, the layout filter is still in place, and the Experiments dashboard 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.

It is important to understand that when you create a new experiment using a layout as the control, any changes made to the variant are displayed to all participants selected for the variant path. This means that if you select a product layout as the control, any changes made to the variant are displayed for all products using that layout, and not just a specific product. If you want to make changes for a particular product only, you should remove the layout filter and create a new experiment using the product URL as the experiment URL.