Preview and Live environments
A preview environment is where you develop functionality and content for your Web site including Promotions. A live environment is where you send content to which is ready for consumption by Web site visitors. The following diagram provides an overview of the SmartTarget preview and live environments.
- Content Explorer
- Create Components ( content items ) in the Content Explorer screen and publish these to a Fredhopper environment.
- Targeting
- Create Promotions in the Targeting screen. Promotions are stored in Promotion Lists which represent the Promotions available on a specific Fredhopper environment served to a Web site (in the simplest scenario, Preview and Live).
- Experience Manager
- Open the Editing Sites screen and validate Promotions in Experience Manager. When you have finished fine-tuning Promotions, copy them to live environments.
- Fredhopper Preview environment
- The Fredhopper Preview environment is where you send Promotion s (and content) you are developing: the Fredhopper Preview environment handles requests for Promotions displayed in Experience Manager.
- Fredhopper Live environment
- The Fredhopper Preview environment is where you send Promotion s (and content) you want to go live: the Fredhopper Live environment handles requests from your public-facing Web sites.