Monday, December 7, 2015

IBM WCS - Disabling/Enabling the product compare feature from PLP/PDP page.


Follow the Below Steps:

  1. In Database, Search for "PAGELAYOUT" Table.Check for the Name="DefaultCategoryPageLayout" and confirm its "PAGELAYOUTTYPE_ID"="Category".
  2. Note down it's corresponding "PAGELAYOUT_ID" eg: PAGELAYOUT_ID=10052 (in My case).
  3. Then navigate to the "PLWIDGET" table in the Database.
  4. Filter the rows with the "PAGELAYOUT_ID"(Noted in the Above step-3).In that navigate to the corresponding column "ADMINNAME" with value "CatalogEntryListWidget" and note its "PLWIDGET_ID" Eg: PLWIDGET_ID=1110 (In my case).
  5. In Database now navigate to "PLWIDGETNVP" table and filter the rows with the "PLWIDGET_ID" fetched in the above step-4.
  6. Now navigate to the row with value "NAME=disableProductCompare".
  7. The corresponding Value column will have "false" by Default(which means the compare feature is enabled).
  8. Now Make it "True" to Disable and "False" to Enable.
Note:- Finally To Test don't forget to do registry Update in the Admin console.