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Pre-requisites

Make sure the Pre-requisites steps are completed and already deployed in production

1. Data exports

2. Tracker integration

Exports for products and transactions are required, as well as all the standard tracking events.

Pages

Define the pages where the WELCOME widgets will be integrated

Example:

• Home Page

• Top category pages

Widgets

Define the WELCOME widgets to be integrated on each page and where they should appear on the page (if you decide that some widgets should not appear for all visitors, define the logic deciding when they will appear or not)

Example names:

• home_recos

• home_bestsellers

• home_promotions

• home_novelties

Labels

Define the label of each of the WELCOME widgets in each language (the title that appears on top of the product slider)

Examples:

• Your personalized suggestions

• For you

• Our bestsellers

• Promotions

• Newcomers

Integrate API + Configuration

Integrate Boxalino Narrative API and configure your widgets in the Boxalino Admin.

1. Layout Blocks of the templates (typically 2 templates: product slider (container) and product (for each product display) as documented as “product slider” in the https://boxalino.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/BPKB/pages/57671688/Check-list+empower+your+Website+Layout+with+Narratives#Layout-Blocks-(Templates)-Check-list

2. Widgets with empty strategies in the WELCOME WPO in Boxalino Admin with the exact names defined in step 3

3. A narrative defining the layout of widgets (with positions if separated zones) refering referring to the names of the widgets as accessors and with the labels defined in step 4

As a result, you should be able to see the widgets appear in your dev/stage front-end showing valid products but without any relevant logic in the selection of the products.
If you display widgets in separated zones of the page, you can use different positions so the widgets are grouped by positions in the Narrative API response

Configure Widget Strategies

Define the strategy of each of the WELCOME widgets (first in prose and then by configuring the widget in the Boxalino Admin)

Boxalino can support you for the configuration of the widget strategies

Test & Deploy

Testing in your dev/stage environment and go-live

In case you have a separate prod and a stage account, make sure to copy your configuration in production before going live