Tag: Sitecore OrderCloud

Index and Search OrderCloud Extended Properties

May 9, 2022 /

This article explains usage of extended properties in OrderCloud-

https://ordercloud.io/knowledge-base/extended-properties

But it doesn’t tell about how to index the extended properties to get the search results.

This blog post helps to setup the XP Indices feature already available with the OrderCloud and search such properties.

This example shows extended properties for Categories for which first Catalog needs to setup

1. Create Catalog from Portal (Assume Marketplace is already created)-

Navigate to Product Catalogs => Catalog => Select an operation “Create a new catalog”

Use below JSON or fill in form to create catalog

{
  "ID": "0001",
  "Active": true,
  "Name": "HabitatMaster",
  "Description": "HabitatMaster"
}

Catalog will be created with 201 status

2. Create Catagories from Portal with reference to Catalog Id created previously-

Navigate to Product Catalogs => Categories=> Select an operation “Create a new category”

Use below JSON to create catqagory for Catalog “0001” with the extended property “DisplayType” as “Text”

{
  "ID": "0001-CategoryDisplayText",
  "Active": true,
  "Name": "CategoryDisplayText",
  "Description": "CategoryDisplayText",
  "xp": {
    "DisplayType": "Text"
  }
}

Likewise create another catagory with DisplayType Image as per below JSON-

{
  "ID": "0001-CategoryDisplayImage",
  "Active": true,
  "Name": "CategoryDisplayImage",
  "Description": "CategoryDisplayImage",
  "xp": {
    "DisplayType": "Image"
  }
}

3. Search Category with newly created extended property i.e. DisplayType

First search all categories with Catalog Id “0001”. Following results will be shown-

Now lets try and search with extended properties i.e. Catalog Id “0001” and DisplayType as Text. For this use “Add Filter” option and key as “xp.DisplayType” and Filter Value as “Text”.

This request wont show any results and hence Xp Indices needs to created for Category

4. Create XP Indices

Navigate to Seller => Xp Indices

Indexable resources Catagory “Add Index” => “xp.DisplayType” and Save Changes

Now search the Catagories same as in Step 3 with Filter option and this time you should be able to see the results-

Setup Sitecore OrderCloud Headstart Buyer UI App – Part 4

April 11, 2022 /

Part 1 using offline Azure resource and Part 1 using online Azure resources gives a walkthrough on setting Sitecore Ordercloud Headstart pre-requisites. While Part 2 helps setup middleware.

Part 3 helps setup Seller UI App

In this blog will setup Buyer UI

Step 1- Setup the Buyer UI project

If you have followed earlier steps to setup Seller UI App you must have already installed node js.

Open the BuyerUI project in Visual Studio Code (prefered) from /src/UI/Buyer folder

Step 2 – Change configuration defaultbuyer-test.json

Navigate to \src\UI\Buyer\src\assets\appConfigs\defaultbuyer-test.json

Update the clientID to your Marketplace Buyer UI client ID

Update baseUrl e.g.:- http://localhost:4300

Update middlewareUrl. If you are in local update this to – https://localhost:5001

Update translateBlobUrl

Step 3 – Change configuration environment.local.ts

Update the useLocalMiddleware to true if this is locally setup

Update localMiddlewareURL to https://localhost:5001

Update localBuyerApiClient, same as in the previous step

Step 4 – Run the Buyer UI application

RUN – from the visual studio terminal or powershell

npm install
np run start

This should compile successfully and ;listen to 4300 port

Headstart Buyer application- http://localhost:4300

Setup Sitecore OrderCloud Headstart Seller UI – Part 3

April 6, 2022 /

Part 1 using offline Azure resource and Part 1 using online Azure resources gives a walkthrough on setting Sitecore Ordercloud Headstart pre-requisites. While Part 2 helps setup middleware.

In this blog we are setting the Sitecore Ordercloud Headstart UI for Seller

Step 1- Setup the UI project

Install node js – https://nodejs.org/en/download/

Open the Seller UI project in Visual Studio Code (prefered) from /src/UI/Seller folder

Step 2 – Change configuration defaultadmin-test.json

Navigate to – \src\UI\Seller\src\assets\appConfigs\defaultadmin-test.json

Change the highlighted values-

Change Client ID

This is a Seller Client ID. In Part 1 response to the seed also provided Seller Client ID.Use the same clinet id here

OR

Goto the marketplace you have created earlier and API Client to copy the Default HeadStart Admin UI ID

Copy the ID in clientID below-

{
  "hostedApp": true,
  "sellerID": "my-seller-id",
  "sellerName": "Default Admin",
  "appname": "Default Admin",
  "clientID": "XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXXX",
  "middlewareUrl": "https://my-hosted-middleware.com",
  "translateBlobUrl": "https://yourordercloudstorage.blob.core.windows.net/ngx-translate/i18n/",
  "blobStorageUrl": "https://yourordercloudstorage.blob.core.windows.net",
  "orderCloudApiUrl": "https://sandboxapi.ordercloud.io"
}

Change the storage account created in Step 1

Keep everything else as is or you may change as per your configuration.

Step 3 – Change/Check the configuration environment.local.json

Navigate to \src\UI\Seller\src\environments\environment.local.ts

Change/Check useLocalMiddleware=true if not already set.

Change/Check localMiddlewareURL = ‘https://localhost:5001’

Step 4 – Setup the App Configuration either using appSettings or Azure App Configuration

Setup a App Configuration using appSettings.json

Use/Download the template here provided by Sitecore to setup the configuration

Create a json file on your local machine by copying the content in the template. In my case I have created OCHeadstartConfig.json. The template looks as below- Highlighted values are the minimum configuration required for Headstart project. Few of the configuration will come from the Seed step explained in Part-2 – Step 4 – Populate Ordercloud Markeplace with the seed request

Following configuration(highlighted) needs to be updated minimum to get the Headstart project working-

OrderCloudSettings:MiddlewareClientID

OrderCloudSettings:MiddlewareClientSecret

OrderCloudSettings:MarketplaceID

OrderCloudSettings:MarketplaceName

{
"ApplicationInsightsSettings:InstrumentationKey": "",
"AvalaraSettings:AccountID": "0",
"AvalaraSettings:BaseApiUrl": "https://sandbox-rest.avatax.com/api/v2",
"AvalaraSettings:CompanyCode": "",
"AvalaraSettings:CompanyID": "0",
"AvalaraSettings:LicenseKey": "",
"CardConnectSettings:Authorization": "",
"CardConnectSettings:AuthorizationCad": "",
"CardConnectSettings:BaseUrl": "cardconnect.com",
"CardConnectSettings:CadMerchantID": "",
"CardConnectSettings:Site": "fts-uat",
"CardConnectSettings:UsdMerchantID": "",
"CosmosSettings:DatabaseName": "",
"CosmosSettings:EnableTcpConnectionEndpointRediscovery": "false",
"CosmosSettings:EndpointUri": "",
"CosmosSettings:PrimaryKey": "",
"CosmosSettings:RequestTimeoutInSeconds": "15",
"EasyPostSettings:APIKey": "",
"EasyPostSettings:FreeShippingTransitDays": "3",
"EasyPostSettings:NoRatesFallbackCost": "20",
"EasyPostSettings:NoRatesFallbackTransitDays": "3",
"EnvironmentSettings:AppTimeoutInSeconds": "30",
"EnvironmentSettings:BuildNumber": "",
"EnvironmentSettings:Commit": "",
"EnvironmentSettings:Environment": "Test",
"EnvironmentSettings:MiddlewareBaseUrl": "",
"EnvironmentSettings:TaxProvider": "Avalara",
"FlurlSettings:TimeoutInSeconds": "40",
"OrderCloudSettings:ApiUrl": "https://sandboxapi.ordercloud.io",
"OrderCloudSettings:IncrementorPrefix": "DB_TEST",
"OrderCloudSettings:MarketplaceID": "<<market place id >>",
"OrderCloudSettings:MarketplaceName": "<<market place name>>",
"OrderCloudSettings:MiddlewareClientID": "<<Middleware ClientId>>",
"OrderCloudSettings:MiddlewareClientSecret": "<<middleware client secret>>",
"OrderCloudSettings:WebhookHashKey": "<<webhook key>>",
"OrderCloudSettings:ClientIDsWithAPIAccess": "<<Enter the Seller or Buyer ClientID's sperated with comma>>"
"SendGridSettings:ApiKey": "",
"SendgridSettings:BillingEmail": "",
"SendgridSettings:CriticalSupportEmails": "",
"SendgridSettings:CriticalSupportTemplateID": "",
"SendgridSettings:FromEmail": "",
"SendgridSettings:LineItemStatusChangeTemplateID": "",
"SendgridSettings:NewUserTemplateID": "",
"SendgridSettings:OrderSubmitTemplateID": "",
"SendgridSettings:PasswordResetTemplateID": "",
"SendgridSettings:ProductInformationRequestTemplateID": "",
"SendgridSettings:QuoteOrderSubmitTemplateID": "",
"SendgridSettings:SupportCaseEmail": "",
"SmartyStreetSettings:AuthID": "",
"SmartyStreetSettings:AuthToken": "",
"SmartyStreetSettings:RefererHost": "",
"SmartyStreetSettings:WebsiteKey": "",
"StorageAccountSettings:BlobContainerNameCache": "cache",
"StorageAccountSettings:BlobContainerNameExchangeRates": "currency",
"StorageAccountSettings:BlobContainerNameQueue": "queue",
"StorageAccountSettings:BlobContainerNameTranslations": "ngx-translate",
"StorageAccountSettings:BlobPrimaryEndpoint": "http://127.0.0.1:10000/devstoreaccount1",
"StorageAccountSettings:ConnectionString": "<<copy Connectionstring from Storage explorer >>",
"UI:BaseAdminUrl": "",
"ZohoSettings:AccessToken": "",
"ZohoSettings:ClientId": "",
"ZohoSettings:ClientSecret": "",
"ZohoSettings:OrgID": "",
"ZohoSettings:PerformOrderSubmitTasks": "false"
}

Get the StorageAccount.Settings.ConnectionString from Storage Explorer-

Create appSettings.json file and copy the above configuration in the file.

appSettings.json file should be in Headstart.API project-

IMP – Check if the middleware applicaiton is running and listening to localhsot 5001 port. If not you should run the Headstart.Api before running UI application.

Setup a App Configuration using Azure App Configuration

Get the configuration connection string

Goto the Access Keys – Read-only keys tab and copy the connection string

Add a new Environment Variable named – APP_CONFIG_CONNECTION and copy the connection string in the Value.

Run the middleware application with the Demo profile.

IMP – If you see compiler error’s whilst running the application. See this blog for the resolution.

Step 5 – Run the Seller UI application

Now that we have all the required configuration checked and changed, time to run the Seller UI application

RUN – from the visual studio terminal or powershell

npm install
npm run start

Now we have Seller application runing on localhost:4200 port

Provide Admin Username and Password as noted in Part -1 of the blog Step 3- Prepare Seed Request

After successful login-

Also we can see the Seller Admin-

Hope you enjoyed setting Sitecore Ordercloud Headstart 🙂

Setup Sitecore OrderCloud Headstart project using Azure Resources – Part 1

March 1, 2022 /

Follow below steps to configure Sitecore Ordercloud Headstart middleware using Azure Resources

Step 1 – Setup a Azure App Configuration

Since we will be now setup a backend application (i.e. admin etc) the Client IDs and Client Secret that was create in Step 5 needs to be secured. This can be condifured in Azure App Configuration. See the link on how to setup this.

Use/Download the template here provided by Sitecore to setup the configuration

Create a json file on your local machine by copying the content in the template. In my case I have created OCHeadstartConfig.json. The template looks as below-

{
    "ApplicationInsightsSettings:InstrumentationKey": "",
    "AvalaraSettings:AccountID": 0,
    "AvalaraSettings:CompanyCode": "",
    "AvalaraSettings:CompanyID": 0,
    "AvalaraSettings:LicenseKey": "",
    "AvalaraSettings:BaseApiUrl": "https://sandbox-rest.avatax.com/api/v2",
    "StorageAccountSettings:ConnectionString": "",
    "StorageAccountSettings:BlobPrimaryEndpoint": "",
    "StorageAccountSettings:BlobContainerNameQueue": "queue",
    "StorageAccountSettings:BlobContainerNameCache": "cache",
    "StorageAccountSettings:BlobContainerNameExchangeRates": "currency",
    "StorageAccountSettings:BlobContainerNameTranslations": "ngx-translate",
    "CardConnectSettings:Authorization": "",
    "CardConnectSettings:AuthorizationCad": "",
    "CardConnectSettings:BaseUrl": "cardconnect.com",
    "CardConnectSettings:CadMerchantID": "",
    "CardConnectSettings:Site": "fts-uat",
    "CardConnectSettings:UsdMerchantID": "",
    "CosmosSettings:DatabaseName": "",
    "CosmosSettings:EnableTcpConnectionEndpointRediscovery": "false",
    "CosmosSettings:EndpointUri": "",
    "CosmosSettings:PrimaryKey": "",
    "CosmosSettings:RequestTimeoutInSeconds": "15",
    "EasyPostSettings:APIKey": "",
    "EasyPostSettings:FreeShippingTransitDays": "3",
    "EasyPostSettings:NoRatesFallbackCost": "20",
    "EasyPostSettings:NoRatesFallbackTransitDays": "3",
    "EnvironmentSettings:AppTimeoutInSeconds": "30",
    "EnvironmentSettings:MiddlewareBaseUrl": "",
    "EnvironmentSettings:BuildNumber": "",
    "EnvironmentSettings:Commit": "",
    "EnvironmentSettings:Environment": "Test",
    "EnvironmentSettings:TaxProvider": "Avalara",
    "FlurlSettings:TimeoutInSeconds": "40",
    "OrderCloudSettings:ApiUrl": "https://sandboxapi.ordercloud.io",
    "OrderCloudSettings:MiddlewareClientID": "",
    "OrderCloudSettings:MiddlewareClientSecret": "",
    "OrderCloudSettings:IncrementorPrefix": "DB_TEST",
    "OrderCloudSettings:WebhookHashKey": "",
    "OrderCloudSettings:MarketplaceID": "",
    "OrderCloudSettings:MarketplaceName": "",
    "SendGridSettings:ApiKey": "",
    "SendgridSettings:FromEmail": "",
    "SendgridSettings:CriticalSupportEmails": "",
    "SendgridSettings:SupportCaseEmail": "",
    "SendgridSettings:BillingEmail": "",
    "SendgridSettings:OrderSubmitTemplateID": "",
    "SendgridSettings:OrderApprovalTemplateID": "",
    "SendgridSettings:LineItemStatusChangeTemplateID": "",
    "SendgridSettings:QuoteOrderSubmitTemplateID": "",
    "SendgridSettings:NewUserTemplateID": "",
    "SendgridSettings:ProductInformationRequestTemplateID": "",
    "SendgridSettings:PasswordResetTemplateID": "",
    "SendgridSettings:CriticalSupportTemplateID": "",
    "SmartyStreetSettings:AuthID": "",
    "SmartyStreetSettings:AuthToken": "",
    "SmartyStreetSettings:RefererHost": "",
    "SmartyStreetSettings:WebsiteKey": "",
    "UI:BaseAdminUrl": "",
    "ZohoSettings:AccessToken": "",
    "ZohoSettings:ClientId": "",
    "ZohoSettings:ClientSecret": "",
    "ZohoSettings:OrgID": "",
    "ZohoSettings:PerformOrderSubmitTasks": "false"
  }

Select the subscription and Resource group

Provide the Resource name in this case I have used OrderCloudHeadStartConfig

Select Location and Pricing tier.

Once the resource is created in the Import/Export option select –

Source service – Configuration file

For language – Other

File type- Json

Source file – *.json (auto selected)

Select the folder icon in Source file option and click Apply to import the configuration.

After the config file is imported navigate to “Configuration Explorer”. There are 63 config key values are imported but in template there are 64.

“SendgridSettings:OrderApprovalTemplateID”: “”, is not imported for due to some reason. Create a new manually if required. For the Demo this is not required.

Click on the values to see the values of the key that was imported-

Set the following values by Right clicking the keys. Copy this from Step 4 where the response was received from seed request-

OrderCloudSettings:MiddlewareClientID

OrderCloudSettings:MiddlewareClientSecret

OrderCloudSettings:MarketplaceID

OrderCloudSettings:MarketplaceName

Continue updating config in next section for Storage Account.

Step 2- Create a Azure Storage Account (if you already don’t have)

Create a Azure Storage Account

Follow the steps and set the configuration as per your requirements

Copy the storage account name and Storage connection string

Set StorageAccountSettings:BlobPrimaryEndpoint – https://yourstorageaccount.blob.core.windows.net/occontainer

Set StorageAccountSettings:ConnectionString

Thats in in this blog. In next blog will cover setting up the UI project.

Hope you are enjoying setting your Ordercloud Headstart project.

Process to delete Sitecore OrderCloud Marketplace

February 18, 2022 /

Admin User who created the Marketplace can delete and Transfer the Ownership of the Account. Where the ownership is transfered to the users cannot delete the Marketplace.

To delete the Marketplace you should have first created a Marketplace and login to the portal as Admin User having Full Access.

For creating your Marketplace see this blog.

Once you have logged in to the portal from Dashboard select the Marketplace you want to delete.

In this case lets delete the Marketplace with name “OrderCloud Blog Auto Generated ID”

Once you are in the Marketplace, you should see the option to Delete since you have FullAccess

Confirmation message is displayed. Click on Send Confirmation Code

A confirmation code is sent to your registered mail.

Once you select option to Send Confirmation Code, you should receive mail on your registered email address from noreply@four51.com.

The mail should have details of the Marketplace you are attempting ot delete along with the code

Use this code to confirm the deletion of Maretplace

And the deleted Marketplace is no more in the Dashboard-

Setup OrderCloud Headstart project using Azurite, Storage Explorer and Cosmos DB Emulator – Part 1

February 3, 2022 /

Follow below steps to configure Sitecore Ordercloud Headstart middleware without having to provision Azure online resources. i.e. setup offline Azure resources

Online vs Local Azure resources-

Azure Online ResourcesAzure Offline Resources
Azure App Configurationuse appSettings.json
Storage AccountAzurite Emulator and Azure Storage Explorer
Azure Cosmos DatabaseAzure Cosmos DB Emulator

Step 1 – Install and Run Azurite Emulator

Install Azurite- Pre-requisite is to install node js

npm install -g azurite

Run Azurite- Navigate to the folder where the supporting files should be deployed e.g.: c:\Azurite

azurite start

OR - if you want specfic folder and in debug mode 

azurite --silent --location c:\azurite --debug c:\azurite\debug.log

Blob service should listen to http://127.0.0.1:10000

Step 2 – Install Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer

Install Azure storage explorer. Download from here

Step 3 – Configure Blob Containers

Connect to Local Azure Storage

Click on the connect to open the connection dialog box

Select the Local storage emulator

Fill in the required details

Display name

Account name – this wil be used to connect to the blob storage

Blobs port- port used to connect to the vlob storage

Queues and Tables port- port used to connect queues and tables respectively

These are the connection information (you might have to note this)-

Local account is created-

Storage Explorer is now able to conect to Local Storage Emulator i.e. Azurite

Create a Blob Container – ngx-translate and create new Virtual Directory i18n

Blob Container and folder name can be any other name. You need to configure this correctly in UI config. See this in later steps

Upload the translation file

Ideally Container, Virtual Directory and trnslation file should be created by Headstart Api. I couldn’t make it work. Hence alternative this I have attached en.json file here.

Once uploaded you should be able to see the uploaded file-

Set Public Access Level to Blob Container

Select the Public read access for containers and blobs

Configure CORS settings

CORS settings are required for accessing the en.json file to access from the local blob storage

Click “Add” to add new CORS Settings-

Following values in –

Allowed Headers – x-ms-meta-data,x-ms-meta-target,x-ms-meta-abc

Exposed Headers – x-ms-meta-*

Check for all the steps performed above the operations in Blob Storage Explorer is successful.

Reference for CORS Rule-

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/storageservices/cross-origin-resource-sharing–cors–support-for-the-azure-storage-services

Now try to access the translator file from local blob storage on – 127.0.0.1:10000/devstoreaccount1/ngx-translate/i18n/en.json

Create your first Sitecore OrderCloud Marketplace

January 3, 2022 /

Login to the OrderCloud portal.

https://portal.ordercloud.io/login

You will be shown the Dashboard and an option to create New Sitecore OrderCloud Marketplace

Step 1 – Select Region

While writing this blog there are 4 Regions avaialble for you to select. As per the document you should create Marketplace in Us-West region by default so as to seed using headstart. If you want to use regions other than Us-West you might have to request this to OrderCloud team.

Select region Us-West from the region option.

Step 2 – Autoselected Environment

By default the Sandbox environment is selected for you to try the OrderCloud. If you want to access Staging or Production contact OrderCloud team.

Step 3 – Provide Mareketplace ID [optional]

Provide the Marketplace Id if you want to have your own name. Id’s are Writable i.e. if you chose your ID OrderCloud will generate the same for you or you may let the OrderCloud auto generate the ID.

Chose the Marketplace ID

Step 4 – Provide Marketplace Name

Provide Marketplace name or description here. Click on Create Marketplace.

A new Marketplace will be created and you will be redirected to the Settings tab of the Marketplace with Instance details and other Basic info.

You should also see your newly created Marketplace in Dashboard

Now lets try creating a Marketplace with the same name in the same region i.e. Us-West

You can see OderCloud doesn’t allow to create a new Maretplace with the same name

If you also try creating a Marketplace with the same name in different region it wont allow-

Create a new Marketplace without providing the ID

A new Marketplace is created and OrderCloud gave it a Unique ID