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At NastyGal, we were an early adopter of the powerful headless content management platform, Contentful (https://www.contentful.com/). Our front-end and content teams grew tired of Hybris Commerce WCMS Cockpit sync issues and its clumsy user interface (sorry SAP). As a result, the business teams wanted a more agile approach to managing content, and ultimately replaced WCMS with Contentful for our content management needs. The benefits were instant. The content team were fully in control of content changes with no limitations, and worked directly with the front-end development team to incorporate new content placeholders on the front-end. Our Hybris developers were no …

The phrases rapid prototyping and SAP Hybris Commerce usually don't go together. SAP Hybris Commerce is an amazing digital commerce platform, but it doesn't lend itself to rapid development. With this tutorial, I will demonstrate how to dramatically speed up your REST API development time, and provide an alternative approach to rapid development using SAP Hybris Commerce. During my own API development cycles, the com.sun.net.httpserver has shortened my build and server start-up times to less than five seconds! As you may or may not know, the Java Development Kit (JDK ) is bundled with an embedded Web server. The com.sun.net.httpserver package was introduced with JDK …

Cron Jobs play an important role in any software development project. Cron Jobs allow developers and system administrators to create automated tasks responsible for running programming jobs in off-hours, or on a consistent schedule. In my mind, all developers should have the ability to create Cron Jobs that run important, automated tasks when needed. In this tutorial, I will walk you through the basics of creating a Cron Job with SAP Hybris Commerce. If you haven't noticed already, I like to use Groovy scripts in my tutorials. For the following reasons, they are easy to write and easy to deploy. …

This tutorial will help assist with your SAP Hybris Commerce go-live readiness plan. As you near your go-live date, it's helpful to ensure your Hybris implementation team has properly configured the local.properties file for production usage. This tutorial will help validate that performance, security and configuration best practices have been implemented in your local.properties file. At the heart of this tutorial is a Groovy script developed to automate the verification of performance, security and configuration best practices for any Hybris Commerce implementation. Normally well-seasoned SAP Hybris Commerce consultants are required to verify proper configuration settings have been established, but after …

If you haven't noticed already, I leverage Groovy quite a bit to configure SAP Hybris Commerce. Groovy can also be used to programatically re-define the Hybris Commerce's order number range. The OOTB Hybris order number seed value starts at zero (0), which means the first order in Hybris will normally begin at order number one (1), unless you redefine the keygen.order.code.start property in the local.properties file. There are are certain circumstances when we need to re-define the order number range dynamically, in particular for testing purposes. This tutorial will demonstrate how to configure SAP Hybris Commerce's default order number range using …

With SAP Hybris Commerce, it’s very simple to add a new attribute to an existing item type. If you are new to Hybris Commerce, you might be asking yourself (rightfully so), what does this actually mean? I will give you an example, in Hybris OOTB the Order (item type) does not contain an IP Address (attribute). From an e-commerce perspective, it’s prudent to save the IP Address used by the customer as he or she places the order. In this tutorial, we will solve this problem by creating a new attribute ( the IP Address) for an existing item type …

Hi Everyone, This article contains the step-by-step video tutorial for the previous blog article: https://hybrisarchitect.com/how-to-send-e-mails-from-hybris-commerce-using-google-mail/ Personally speaking, videos tutorials vastly improve my learning comprehension. Please let me know what you think of this Hybris Commerce video. Warm Regards, Marc Raygoza  

At a recent client engagement, the client asked to review the Hybris Commerce Out-of-the-Box (OOTB) email templates' copy early in the project. During this engagement, I worked off-site on most days, and could not reliably access the client's SMTP Server to send emails from Hybris. In this situation, I decided to use my Gmail account to send Hybris emails to the client directly. In this tutorial, I will demonstrate how to send emails from Hybris Commerce using Google Mail (Gmail). Prerequisites: To complete this tutorial, you will need a Google Mail (Gmail) account. Note: Hybris Commerce 6.x OOTB has SMTP …