I think your problem is because you have configured your web application using “Classic Authentication” if you switch it to “Claims Based Authentication” the site should work fine.

Just try it and post the result here and email to me please.

Regards,
Alen

Thanks for sharing, that’s cool

The thing I don’t like with your solution is that you have to go to each of the campaign items you want to preview and set the targeting value to 1 or 1 and a date (if we go with your advanced solution)… So, if you have let’s say 50 ads and/or 20 discounts to preview it’s pretty tiring and hassle… As far as you have to rollback each ones to preview for other date range.

With these stored procedures, you do not have to change something in the marketing items. Everything is loaded at the runtime with the stored procedures set in the web.config…

For information, I haven’t change the built-in stored procedures. There are all new and loaded only by the preview web application. The production environnement is clean and the support is not break…

Anyway, thanks again for your idea

The two site idea is the right approach though. However, you want the preview site to have a “PREVIEW” environment variable defined (you can feed define this as a global variable in ASP.NET for the application). For example g_PREVIEW = True

You can feed the g_PREVIEW value into the marketing rule by using a custom Profile definition (I believe there is a Targeting custom profile already built in).

When you define the marketing rules simply add a rule that says Targeting.g_PREVIEW=TRUE OR (the rest of the rules).

That way when you run on the preview app, the marketing rules will always fire.

Note that everything will fire, so if you have a discount for Dec 1-24, and separately Dec 25-30, you will have both discounts fire at the same time.

To refine the approach a bit, the Preview site should be sensitive to a user provided date and time to simulate such that the rules will preview on a specific date.

You can do this using another global variable that takes a datetime value, same method as g_PREVIEW method above.

Enjoy!

Commerce Server is not supported on a domain controller and even if you can force the installation there are lots of bugs. You have no other choices than moving it to another box.

Gaël

During the Commerce Server Configuration I get, “an error occured when configuring the feature “Staging Service.” In the error log it says,

“Exception occured during feature configuration: Microsoft.CommerceServer.Internal.Config.ConfigurationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. —> System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. —> System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x8007056C): A new member could not be added to a local group because the member has the wrong account type.”

My question is are you familiar with this error? and The staging service account, “CSStageSvc” which group are in its properites. I am installing it on a Domain Controller? Any ideas… Tony

I am facing same problem which abdul mentioned in first post.

Not able to view Commerce server Data warehouse in Commerce Server Manager …

I have tried multiple times but still it’s not working …

Any help from your side is helpful to me.

Thanks
Pritesh Gandhi

Which questions are you talking about?

Where is solution of abdul question ?

Thanks
Pritesh Gandhi