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anireddy
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February 15, 2017
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add new cq:commerceType for etc/commerce/products

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Hi - My products are laid out by Series -> Product. 

So is there a way to create a new cq:commerceType (for my series). I don't want to have "product" commerceType for series as well. What core files do i need to override to achieve this ?

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Best answer by mhaack

Hello, can you explain what you are trying to achieve by using cq:commerceType = series?

The short answer to your question is: yes, the AEM commerce framework itself supports custom types of cq:commerceType.

The long answer is it depends on two elements:

  • Even the underlying commerce framework supports custom types it depends on your implementation of CommerceService and CommerceSession. I guess you use your own implementation of CommerceService, CommerceSession, Product and the importer classes, so you need handle the series type here. Especially AbstractJcrProduct makes some assumptions about the cq:commerceType and you have to overwrite many methods here or directly implement the Product interface
  • The AEM commerce consoles, editors etc, especially everything related to product search or filtering are working with cq:commerceType = product. They will very likely not show you services in search results or product finder. Here you must implement custom search handlers etc. 

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smacdonald2008
smacdonald2008
Level 10
February 15, 2017

I have asked the ecommerce team to look at this question. 

mhaack
Adobe Employee
mhaackAdobe EmployeeAccepted solution
Adobe Employee
February 15, 2017

Hello, can you explain what you are trying to achieve by using cq:commerceType = series?

The short answer to your question is: yes, the AEM commerce framework itself supports custom types of cq:commerceType.

The long answer is it depends on two elements:

  • Even the underlying commerce framework supports custom types it depends on your implementation of CommerceService and CommerceSession. I guess you use your own implementation of CommerceService, CommerceSession, Product and the importer classes, so you need handle the series type here. Especially AbstractJcrProduct makes some assumptions about the cq:commerceType and you have to overwrite many methods here or directly implement the Product interface
  • The AEM commerce consoles, editors etc, especially everything related to product search or filtering are working with cq:commerceType = product. They will very likely not show you services in search results or product finder. Here you must implement custom search handlers etc. 
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