TARGET Sales Management System - Application Notes

Web Site Updating/Control

TARGET and UEN provide complete function for the inventory portion of your web site. This explains the features and controls you have available.

UEN<->Web Site Interaction

The UEN system is used to store all data for the inventory portion of your web site rather than having a separate database. For sites hosted by Halliburton Systems all references to your inventory have URLs composed with your domain name rather than UEN's domain name. Sites hosted elsewhere have to use one of the fixed domain references to the UEN site. In any case, there is no UEN branding on the actual inventory display. Items to be displayed as your inventory are identical to those displayed on UEN. See the help page on UEN for details on how to make sure that your listings all go to UEN.

The non-inventory portion of your web site is normally produced from static HTML code (regular web pages). The inventory display page link points to the UEN server and carries enough information to identify your company (based on UED dealer number). Once this link is followed, the UEN system generates the appropriate pages for your site as they are requested.

Control Parameters

The UEN inventory generator system has a number of paramters that specify the appearance of your inventory pages. For complete details we suggest you contact HSI, but the main controls cover: Note that by using different versions of the inventory page link, we can customize the sorting/searching functions. The default is based on the UEN specialty->category taxonomy but this is not required.

Specials Page

A relatively new feature of the UEN web page system is the ability to control the appearance and content of a specials (or what's new) page. Once the page format is established, items are put on the page by specifying the "!" advertising code in your TARGET system; this must be in addition to the "#" code required for appearance on UEN.

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