Staging server maintenance for rule-based discounts

Rule-based discount data is considered merchant data. This means that all of the data associated with rule-based discounts is scoped to the store for which it was created when the WebSphere Commerce instance is started.

There are two types of data required to build a rule-based discount, and to make it available from the store:

  1. Data stored in the database tables which defines the rule-based discount.
  2. The rule project files stored in the file system, and called during run time. The rule project file is generated when the business user clicks Activate in the WebSphere Commerce Accelerator for any inactive discounts.

The data stored in the database is automatically propagated to the production server. The rule project data is not propagated. It must be regenerated in the production  environment, by reactivating the promotion using the WebSphere Commerce Accelerator associated with the production machine.