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The Promoted content from XM is not displayed on site

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Sometimes when you promoted content from Endeca Workbench (a.k.a. Experience Manager or XM) it is not reflected on site, even when you marked the project to be published and ran the promote_content script in backend rather than using the XM. In order to see the latest changes, you might need to force each store instance to update the promoted content they retrieved from the MDEX. For that you should execute the  " updateStore " method from /atg/endeca/assembler/cartridge/manager/DefaultFileStoreFactory Note: In case that you have a multiple-MDEX environment, you will need to execute the updateStore method from each FileStoreFactory instance that you have created for each MDEX app.

The Global Promotions are not applied in the correct date or time

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If a global promotion is not applied correctly in date or time, it could be the date of your Pricing Engine is not configured correctly. You should set the globalPromotionsSchedulableDate to /atg/dynamo/service/CurrentDate in order to get the current date. In the example below, I set that value to the ItemPricingEngine:

Deploy CSA 11.3 (Commerce Store Accelerator)

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Oracle Commerce ATG released a new reference application called Commerce Store Acceleator (CSA) in 11.2 and later versions. Basically, this application is an accelerator to start implementing ATG with best practices, but the difference in comparison with the CRS, is that use RESTful web services, KnockoutJS and Bootstrap in the front-end to separate the views from the back-end, so this application does not use JSPs, droplets, etc. Pre-configuration for CSA In order to deploy the CSA, previously you must have installed: A SQL database, in my case  Oracle Database An Application Server, in my case  JBoss EAP 7.0 JDK 1.8.0-121 Then we need to create the schemas and users in the database.  Start your Oracle database and o pen a terminal and type this $  sqlplus Connect as  system SQL*Plus: Release 12.1.0.1.0 Production on Fri Oct 13 18:06:58 2017 Copyright (c) 1982, 2013, Oracle.  All rights reserved. Enter user-name:  system ...