Step 1: Installing Experience Optimization on Content Manager

Run the Experience Optimization installer and modify your Component Templates.

Procedure

  1. On the installation media, navigate to the folder Content Manager\ and double-click SDLWeb85CM.exe.
    The installer prompts you on whether to modify or remove the software. Select Modify to open the installation wizard.
  2. Follow the installer's instructions to install Experience Optimization on the machine on which your Content Manager is installed. The installer ends by prompting you to reboot.
  3. After rebooting, open a browser and navigate to the Content Manager Explorer Web site. Note the new Targeting menu item in the slide-out menu.
  4. In Content Manager Explorer, identify which Component Template or Component Templates render Components whose content you want to add to Fredhopper when you publish them.
  5. Start the Template Builder application and open each of the Component Templates you identified.
  6. In each Component Template, from the Building Blocks panel on the left, drag the Template Building Block called Add to Experience Optimization to the position just above the final Template Building Block in the Template.
  7. Save all Component Templates you modified.