Managing Events Options

The “Options” section is used for defining various options related to the events such as the type of calendar that will be displayed inside the store, the time frame for sending a message to the user (in order to avoid disturbing the user by sending messages in an inappropriate time – e.g. after 9. pm, etc.)

In order to start managing events options, choose option “Options” from the “Events” menu.

Figure 395: Choosing “Options”

The following screen will be displayed (note: the screen is presented with 7 screenshots).

Figure 396: Setting up presentation

Use the following parameters to determine how the events are displayed in the front end:

Figure 397: Example of the “View 1” layout

Figure 398: Example of the “View 2” layout

Figure 399: Example of the “View 3” layout

Figure 400: Setting up E-Marketing

Figure 401: Setting up surveys

Figure 402: Setting up date settings

Figure 403: Seting up SMS messaging

Figure 404: Setting up orders

Figure 405: Setting up Reports

Figure 406: Setting up web service options

Part of the screen for enabling or disabling web service; click on the desired radio button and then click on the “Modify” button to save the changes.

The purpose of the osCommRes Web service is to allow 3rd party transactions. The web service supports interoperability between osCommRes and 3rd party applications like forums, CMS Advertising Serving applications and CRMs over the internet.

It has an interface that is described in WSDL. Other systems interact with the web service using SOAP. The service uses HTTP, and comprises of XML.

In practical terms this allows interoperability between osCommRes and Java and Python, or Microsoft Windows.

Further features:

Web services are loosely coupled thereby facilitating a distributed approach to application integration.

Caution: while the web service provides flexibility and powerful integration features it has to be protected. Details of how to do this are outside the scope of the user guide.