Campaigns

This topic describes the new campaign management functionality in Episerver Commerce. Campaigns are a new type of content introduced to the Episerver platform. They provide a way to organize common marketing activities and a basis for measuring a campaign's goals.

How it works

Episerver Commerce provides one standard campaign type: SalesCampaign. This class is a basic content, which means it does not follow the normal publishing workflow of content. The class has the properties IsActive, ValidFrom, and ValidUntil, which control the status of the campaign.

This class can also restrict a campaign to one or more visitor groups through the property VisitorGroup, which supports the targeting of customer segments. Finally, the sales campaign has a RevenueGoal.

Extending campaigns example

using EPiServer.Commerce.Catalog.ContentTypes;
using EPiServer.Commerce.Marketing;
using EPiServer.Commerce.Marketing.DataAnnotations;
using EPiServer.Core;
using EPiServer.DataAbstraction;
using EPiServer.DataAnnotations;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;

namespace EPiServer.Commerce.Sample.Models.Campaigns
{
    [ContentType(GUID = "530a7f07-8d12-4625-bda3-8e135a10b74d")]
    [AvailableContentTypes(Include = new[] { typeof (PromotionData) })] 
    public class SeasonalCampaign : SalesCampaign
    {

        [Display(Order = 12, GroupName = SystemTabNames.PageHeader, Prompt = "Hero Image")]
        public virtual ContentReference HeroImage { get; set; }

        [Display(Order = 13, GroupName = SystemTabNames.PageHeader, Prompt = "Banner Image")]
        public virtual ContentReference BannerImage { get; set; }
    }
}

Using render templates

Campaign content uses normal rendering templates as described here. By default, only partial views are available for campaign content. To enable campaigns and pages, please see below.

Partial views

using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web.Mvc;
using EPiServer;
using EPiServer.Commerce.Marketing;
using EPiServer.Core;
using EPiServer.Framework.DataAnnotations;
using EPiServer.Web.Mvc;
using MyEpiserverSite.Models.Pages;
using System.Web.Security;

namespace MyEpiserverSite.Controllers
{
    [TemplateDescriptor(Default = true)]
    
    public class CampaignPartialController : PartialContentController<SalesCampaign>
    {

        public ActionResult Index(SalesCampaign currentCampaign)
        {
            // Implementation of action view the page. 

            return View(currentCampaign);
        }
    }
}

Example: The corresponding rendering view for displaying the campaign partial view.

@using EPiServer.Core
@using EPiServer.Web.Mvc.Html

@model EPiServer.Commerce.Marketing.SalesCampaign

    <h1>
            @Html.DisplayFor(m => m.Name)
</h1>

    <h3>
        @Html.PropertyFor(m => m.Description)
    </h3>

Full page views

using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web.Mvc;
using EPiServer;
using EPiServer.Commerce.Marketing;
using EPiServer.Core;
using EPiServer.Framework.DataAnnotations;
using EPiServer.Web.Mvc;
using MyEpiserverSite.Models.Pages;
using System.Web.Security;

namespace MyEpiserverSite.Controllers
{
    [TemplateDescriptor(Default = true)]
    
    public class CamapignPageController : ContentController<SalesCampaign>
    {

        public ActionResult Index(SalesCampaign currentCampaign)
        {
            // Implementation of action view the page. 

            return View(currentCampaign);
        }
    }
}

Example: The corresponding rendering view for displaying the campaign page view.

@using EPiServer.Core
@using EPiServer.Web.Mvc.Html

@model EPiServer.Commerce.Marketing.SalesCampaign

    <h1>
            @Html.DisplayFor(m => m.Name)
</h1>

    <h3>
        @Html.PropertyFor(m => m.Description)
    </h3>

Campaign content as pages

IRoutable

using EPiServer.Commerce.Marketing;
using EPiServer.Core;
using EPiServer.DataAbstraction;
using EPiServer.DataAnnotations;
using EPiServer.Web.Routing;
using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;

namespace EPiServer.Commerce.Sample.Models.Campaigns
{
    [ContentType(GUID = "530a7f07-8d12-4625-bda3-8e135a10b74d")]
    [AvailableContentTypes(Include = new[] { typeof (PromotionData) })] 
    public class SeasonalCampaign : SalesCampaign, IRoutable
    {

        [Display(Order = 12, GroupName = SystemTabNames.PageHeader, Prompt = "Hero Image")]
        public virtual ContentReference HeroImage { get; set; }

        [Display(Order = 13, GroupName = SystemTabNames.PageHeader, Prompt = "Banner Image")]
        public virtual ContentReference BannerImage { get; set; }

        public virtual string RouteSegment { get; set; }
        
    }
}

Campaign route segment

using EPiServer.Core;
using EPiServer.DataAbstraction;
using EPiServer.Framework;
using EPiServer.Framework.Initialization;
using EPiServer.ServiceLocation;
using EPiServer.Web.Routing;
using EPiServer.Web.Routing.Segments;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web.Routing;

namespace EPiServer.Commerce.Sample.Business.Initialization
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Initialization module to handle the initialization of Commerce.
    /// </summary>
    [ModuleDependency(typeof(EPiServer.Commerce.Initialization.InitializationModule))]
    [InitializableModule]
    public class CampaignInitalization : IConfigurableModule
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Initializes Commerce using the specified context.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="context">The context.</param>
        public void Initialize(InitializationEngine context)
        {
            EPiServer.Global.RoutesRegistered += Global_RoutesRegistered;
        }

        private void Global_RoutesRegistered(object sender, RouteRegistrationEventArgs e)
        {
            RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes);
        }

        private static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
        {
            // Route for editing commerce content (which has a root not connected to the global root)
            MapCampaignRoute(routes,
                name: "campaignroot",
                url: "Campaigns/{language}/{nodeedit}/{partial}/{action}",
                defaults: new { action = "index" });
        }

        private static void MapCampaignRoute(RouteCollection routes, string name, string url, object defaults, object constraints = null)
        {
            var contentRootService = ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance<ContentRootService>();
            var root = ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance<IContentLoader>()
                .GetItems(contentRootService.List(), new LoaderOptions())
                .SingleOrDefault(x => x.Name.Equals("SysCampaignRoot"));
            var segmentRouter = ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance<IUrlSegmentRouter>();
            segmentRouter.RootResolver = (sd) => root.ContentLink;

            var parameters =
                new MapContentRouteParameters
                {
                    UrlSegmentRouter = segmentRouter,
                    BasePathResolver = null,//Use Cms default
                    Direction = SupportedDirection.Both,
                    Constraints = constraints
                };

            routes.MapContentRoute(
                name,
                url,
                defaults,
                parameters);
        }


        public void Uninitialize(InitializationEngine context)
        {
            // Uninitialize catalog content version
        }

        public void ConfigureContainer(ServiceConfigurationContext context)
        {
        }
    }
}

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Last updated: Jul 14, 2016

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