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This installment of Fluid Retail Tips will focus on the automation capabilities within Fluid Experience. With the ability to automate most tasks, Fluid Experience allows merchandisers to quickly publish their product imagery with ease. The publishing flow usually consists of the following:

• IMPORT: Product data and images are uploaded to Fluid Retail through XML, Hot Folder or CSV
• CREATE: Interactive display and static image creation within Fluid Retail
• DEPLOY: Deployment of assets from Fluid Retail to customer hosting infrastructure

Each of these tasks can be configured to run as individual jobs or sequenced jobs. The jobs can also be sequenced in a number of ways. For example, one could sequence a Create and Deploy job. Another example would be an Import, Create, Deploy to Staging Server and Deploy to Production Server sequenced job. To configure a sequenced job that best fits your workflow, please contact support@fluidretail.com.

The jobs above can be triggered with the following methods:

• Jobs Panel: Login to the admin tools and go to https://www.fluidretail.net/joblist.html in another browser tab or window. Here you will see any jobs configured for your account.
• Scheduled: Jobs can be scheduled to run at a time of your choosing and as many times a day as desired. This method does not require merchandisers to log into Fluid Retail. The image publishing will automatically begin at the specified time(s). Please contact Fluid Retail support if you would like to schedule a job.
• Triggered by a remote system: Product catalog refreshes can be triggered via web services. You’ll find more information about Remote Job Invocation here.

Finally, you can now receive email notifications when your jobs run. To subscribe to these emails, go to the Administration and the Users tabs in your Fluid Retail account. Click on the “Manage Subscriptions” button to sign up to receive email notifications.

Please contact Fluid Retail support to learn more about these features.

This entry was posted on Thursday, June 25th, 2009 at 5:07 pm and is filed under Fluid Experience, Fluid Jobs, Fluid Retail. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.