How to create SEO Urls in WebSphere Commerce(WCS)

To avoid having to hard code SEO friendly URLs in the storefront pages, the WebSphere Commerce Search Engine Optimization feature provides a wcf:url tag that will construct SEO friendly URLs using the SEO pattern file(s) and tables. The current wcf:url tag is used by all starter stores to construct SEO friendly URLs. The UrlTag class has been enhanced to 

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Play iFrame embedded YouTube Video on thumbnail click

Now a days I see lot of people facing issue with autoplay of iFrame embedded videos when we click on thumbnail or any button associated with it. In previous post how to display youtube thumbnails instead of embedding the iframe to reduce page load time I already discussed about how we can embed YouTube with 

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How to display YouTube thumbnails instead of embedding the iframe to reduce page load time

YouTube provides video embedding feature to web page by using simple HTML iframe tag, which is very easy to embed in any page for everyone. However embedding a YouTube video player using iframe while page loading slow down a web page’s load especially if there are more than one videos embedded on the same page. 

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How to change delimiter in dataload csv in IBM WebSphere commerce

A CSV file can contain multiple data records, with each record spanning multiple columns. Each column value for a record is also known as a token. The CSV file must include delimiter characters to separate tokens within each record and to separate records. The CSV data reader uses these delimiter characters to identify each record 

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How to display webactivity or e-Spot data content on the JSP in IBM WCS

If you have already created a webactivity using dataload or CMC and want to display all the e-Spots data at store front or JSP. You can use below rest call to get all the details and data about the webactivity by passing the e-Spot name into it. Just replace ESPOT_NAME by the actual main e-Spot 

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