Customer Experience Center - Favorites
Let the customer view and interact with their favorite lists.
The Customer Experience Center - Favorites app is a paragraph app for rendering Favorite Lists in frontend. As such, it is a faster and more streamlined parallel to the MyLists-part of the older Customer Center app. It is exclusively available for ViewModel templates.
When you add this app to a paragraph it has the following settings:
Basically, you need to:
- Select what to retrieve favorite lists based on:
- UserID - the unique ID for the logged-in user
- Customer number - this standard user field can have the same value across users, to you can use this for shared lists
- Own favorite lists and lists made by users that current user can impersonate - what it says on the tin
- Configure the Display settings
- Lists per page
- Sort by field
- Sort direction
- Set the templates
- List is used to render the list of favorite lists
- Detail is used to render the contents of a specific favorite list. It is loaded when the parameter FavoriteListId is present in the url.
Favorite Commands
Favorite Commands are commands for manipulating a favorite list – e.g. adding or removing a product from it, creating it, renaming it, or deleting it - from ViewModel-based templates and in conjunction with the Customer Experience Center – Favorites app.
Like it’s conceptual sibling the cart command, a favorite command can be executed in two ways:
- By submitting an URL with the favoritecmd parameter and a set of other parameters and values appropriate to the command
- By submitting a Form using a button with the name FavoriteCmd and a set of input fields with names and values appropriate to the command
Here is a list of Favorite Commands:
| Command | Parameters | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| CreateFavoriteList | Name | Creates a favorite list |
| RemoveFavoriteList | FavoriteListId | Removes the favorite list with the ID specified |
| RenameFavoriteList | FavoriteListId, Name | Sets the name of the favorite list specified to the value of the Name parameter |
| AddProductToFavoriteList | ProductId, ProductVariantId, FavoriteListId (optional) | Adds the specified product to the specified (or default) favorite list |
| RemoveProductFromFavoriteList | ProductId, ProductVariantId (optional), FavoriteListId | Removes the specified product from the specified (or default) favorite list |
You may also find the FavoriteListService useful.