How to Change the Marketing Options of a Business Data Project

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This topic provides steps for changing the marketing options of a business data project. You can change the following options for marketing:

  • Whether to include or exclude marketing data from being staged.

  • Whether to include or exclude promotion codes from being staged.

  • Whether the promotion codes are staged incrementally (stage only the changed promotion codes), or as a full import (stage all promotion codes, regardless of changes).

  • Whether you want to refresh the marketing cache after the deployment finishes.

To change the marketing options of a business data project

  1. Click Start, point to Programs, point to Microsoft Commerce Server 2009 , and the click Commerce Server Staging.

  2. In Microsoft Management Console (MMC), in the left pane, expand Commerce Server Staging, expand <server name>, and then click Projects.

  3. In the right pane, right-click the project that you want to change, and then click Properties.

  4. In the Project Properties dialog box, on the Marketing tab, do the following:

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    Marketing Data

    Select this option to include marketing data in the deployment. Leave this option clear to exclude the marketing data from being deployed.

    Promotion Codes

    Select this option to include promotion code data in the deployment. Leave this option clear to exclude the promotion code data from being deployed.

    Incremental

    If you included promotion codes in your project, select this option to stage only the promotion codes that have changed since the last deployment.

    Full

    If you included promotion codes in your project, select this option to stage all the promotion codes, regardless of any changes since the last deployment.

    Refresh Cache

    Select this option to refresh the marketing cache on the destination server after the deployment finishes. Leave this option clear if you want to manually refresh the cache on the destination server after the deployment finishes or if you have configured post-deployment scripts to refresh the cache.

  5. Click OK.

See Also

Other Resources

What are the Staging Project Options?

Staging Web Sites and Commerce Server Data

Commerce Server Staging