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5.1.4. Extending with Fragments

A pure e-Commerce system is focused on the more transactional aspects of the buying process. To create a more engaging user experience you can augment the catalog pages with editorial content from the CMS. This includes, articles, images or videos.

There are two types of shop pages that can be extended by the CoreMedia CMS:

  • Catalog Pages that are part of the catalog hierarchy, like a Category Overview or Landing Page and a Product Detail Page (PDP). They are extended by Augmented Categories in the CMS.

  • Other Pages that are not located in the catalog hierarchy, for example, all subordinate shop pages like "Contact Us", "Log On", "Checkout", "Register" or "Search Result", which also belong to a shop but don't have a category or an product connected with. Even the homepage and other special topic pages belong to this type. These pages are extended by Augmented Pages in the CMS.

In addition, you can show complete CMS pages in the context of the WCS.

The basis for augmentation is the use of the CoreMedia Content Widget or the lc:include tag in the WCS system.

On the IBM WCS side add the CoreMedia Content Widget to IBM WCS page layouts. Here, content from the CMS will be shown. The value of the placement property connects the widget with a placement in a CMS layout. Technically, the widgets use the lc:include tag. See Section 5.1.4.1, “CoreMedia Widgets” and Section 5.1.4.2, “The CoreMedia Include Tag” for details.

When you have added the widget and you have connected the WCS and CMS systems, you can augment WCS content in Studio. Section 5.10.5, “Augmenting WCS Content” describes the required steps.