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Sitecore Commerce 8.2.1 Installation Guide for Reference Storefront-Part 5 Install Sitecore modules & Sitecore update packages Install Sitecore modules Log on to the Sitecore Desktop (created during the Sitecore Experience Platform installation(storefront)). the following .zip files, which are located in the .\Sitecore.Commerce.8.2.1_U2_1.2.62\Modules folder of the Sitecore Commerce release package: Sitecore Commerce Connect 10.x.xxx.zip Sitecore.Commerce.Habitat.Images-10.x.xxx.zip Adventure Works Images.zip Browse to Development Tools > Installation Wizard, and follow the steps in the wizard and install above mentioned zip packages Note: You must confirm your changes to override the existing items during the installation of the modules and packages described above Install Sitecore update packages You use the Sitecore Update Installation Wizard to install required update packages to your Commerce Serve...

Sitecore Commerce 8.2.1 Installation Guide for Reference Storefront-Part 4 Install Commerce Server and Commerce Server web services When you set up Commerce Server, you must install Commerce Server on your local machine, then create an IIS site to host the Commerce Server web services. Note:For successful commerce installation it requires full admin access Install the Commerce Server software Navigate to path where the commerce packages has been downloaded.Unzip Sitecore.Commerce.8.2.1_U2_1.2.62.zip Run the CommerceServer-11.4.xxx.exe installer in administrator access. Select Install, and accept the license agreement. If it Prompts with following below error message. Manually start the commerce service.Open services.msc and start "Commerce Server Staging" service  On the Administration Database page, verify the value in the SQL Server field (the default value is the machine name). o If you are using an SQL named instance, enter t...

Sitecore Commerce 8.2.1 Installation Guide for Reference Storefront-Part 3 Install Sitecore Experience Platform Follow the Sitecore XP Installation Guide for installing dependent software, and for installing Sitecore XP from the Sitecore 8.2 rev. xxxxxx.exe file. Install clean sitecore instance and name it as storefront .Instance name can be choosed as per your needs. After you have installed Sitecore XP, change the Sitecore web site's application pool identity to .\CSFndRuntimeUser. Navigate to IIS and Navigate to the application pool of your xp instance(storefront) By default application pool identity will be in network service,Change it to .\CSFndRuntimeUser. Click the application pool of your xp instance(storefrontAppPool) and click on "Advanced Settings" in Actions Pane click on the Identity and change the Identity.Prefix the application pool identity with “.\” Click on Custom account Set the identity to CSFndRu...

Sitecore Commerce 8.2.1 Installation Guide for Reference Storefront-Part 2 Create a local account Create a local administrator account named CSFndRuntimeUser . Add this account to your local administrator group, and grant the account login permissions for the SQL server. Note: For Sucessfull commerce installation requires full admin access Steps For local administration account: Press win key + R and open lusrmgr.msc Create user CSFndRuntimeUser and set the password to never expire, user cannot change the password. Click Create! Note down your password and username for later use: CSFndRuntimeUser/lostman@123 Add the newly created commerce user(CSFndRuntimeUser) to administrator group Click on the Groups in the side Pane and Point the administrators group Right click on the administrator group and Click add. Click on the CSFndRuntimeUser and check the User belongs to memberof IIS_IUSRS and Administrators.If not add it ...

Examples of ECS connections with Commerce Connect? Sitecore commerce connect with ECS The Commerce Connect core framework contains a number of generic, extensible abstract service layers that work with different external commerce systems. The Commerce Connect service layers: Carry essential e-commerce information between the webshop solution and the back-end e-commerce system(s). Encapsulate and provide an abstraction of the business logic of the external commerce system(s). Track and follow-up visitor behavior. They provide new goals, page events, marketing automation campaigns, and reports. When you build an e-commerce solution using Commerce Connect, you should use the APIs in the Commerce Connect service layers instead of directly accessing the APIs in the external commerce system. The reasons for this are: The customer engagement is built into the service layers. If the service layer APIs are not used, the built-in commerce scenarios for person...

Media File Renaming Issue In the sitecore instance where there are many files which contain whitespace in its name. This is some anomaly which replaced whitespace by "{0833d05bc9400a834c8d4e1b16e8a1e4aeaf9501c7b0aa3e466de75900763954}20" in all the files. We can say for example, a image file which name is test image.jpg and it gets renamed as test{0833d05bc9400a834c8d4e1b16e8a1e4aeaf9501c7b0aa3e466de75900763954}20image.jpg.  This happened to Sitecore's out of the box files as well.   Resolution If you are using sitecore 9 and your media file contains space then try to remove the space in sitecore.config file find <setting name="Media.WhitespaceReplacement" value=" " />//make the value="" without any space If you are working in lower version of sitecore then please have look the <encodeNameReplacements> in sitecore.config <encodeNameReplacements> ..... <replace mode="on" find=" "...

Sitecore Commerce 8.2.1 Installation Guide for Reference Storefront-Part 1 SITECORE COMMERECE PREREQUISITES The following is a list of the prerequisite software that is required for developing on and running Sitecore Commerce: Software & Hardware Prerequisites Recommended Hardware Requirements: 4 Core 8 threads processor, 16GB of RAM, 500 GB SSD Hard Disk Operating system: Window 8/8.1/10 Professional or higher, Windows Server 2012/R2 64 bit or higher SQL SERVER: SQL Server 2014, Installed in mixed mode as default instance Runtime environment: Node.js https://nodejs.org/download/ IIS: Enable IIS for the version based on OS (7.0 or later version) MongoDB : Mongo DB3.0 or higher as Windows Service Developer Tools : Visual Studio 2015 Update 3, SIM, Sitecore Rocks, Sitecore TDS, RoboMongo Download and Install ASP.NET MVC4 (available at https://www.asp.net/mvc/mvc4 ) Download and Install .NET Core 1.0.3 SDK Preview 2 ...