Publishing Campaign Changes on Your Web Site

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You use the Publish Campaigns module to update your site immediately with new information that you have added to your Web site. In most e-commerce businesses, changes are first made to a test site, and then at a scheduled times the changes are published to the production site. Contact your system administrator for information about when and how changes are published to your production site.

The Publish Campaigns module contains a search mechanism that enables you to find sites on your Web Servers by campaign item type. You can view the sites and the campaign caches that they contain. If you do not want to publish the campaign cache of a site, you can remove it from the search results list.

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  • If you do not see your Web Servers or sites appear in the search results list, it may be because no site user has yet visited a page that uses the campaign system. The campaign system automatically registers each Web server and site when it first loads campaign information. The virtual_directory table in the Campaigns database is updated after the first user queries the cache data. After the virtual_directory table is updated, the campaign cache will appear in the Publish Campaigns module.

To search for campaign caches

To delete a campaign cache

To publish a campaign item

To search for campaign caches

  1. In Campaigns, click Publish Campaigns.
  2. In the Publish Campaigns screen, click Find on the toolbar.
  3. In the Find pane, in the Look For box, select the type of campaign cache you are searching for from the drop-down list, and then click Find Now.

The sites containing caches of the specified type matching the search criteria appear in the Production Items box.

To delete a campaign cache

  1. In Campaigns, click Publish Campaigns.

  2. In the Publish Campaigns screen, click Find on the toolbar.

  3. In the Find pane, in the Look For box, select the type of campaign cache you want to remove from the drop-down list, and then click Find Now.

    The sites containing caches of the specified type matching the search criteria appear in the Production Items box.

  4. Select the site and its campaign cache you want to remove, and then click Delete on the toolbar.

  5. In the Delete? dialog box, click Yes to delete the campaign cache for the selected site.

The campaign cache for the selected site is removed from the Production Items list.

To publish a campaign item

  1. In Campaigns, click Publish Campaigns.
  2. In the Publish Campaigns screen, select the campaign item you want to publish, and then click Publish on the toolbar.

The campaign item is sent to production. The site is updated to include the new campaign item.

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  • If you do not have the appropriate permissions or experience database connectivity problems, the site will not be updated to include the new campaign item(s). In addition, publishing a campaign requires an ASP page called BDRefresh.asp that must exist in the root directory of the site on each Web Server. Contact your system administrator if you cannot update your site.

See Also

Creating an Ad

Creating a Discount

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