Background

In order to enable technical users (developers, technical consultants, architects, etc.) to understand the technical foundation and work with SAP Commerce Cloud according to development guidelines as well as best practices, we provided the following 2 important learning paths (with similar to almost identical technical content):

1. The 2 instructor led trainings bookable on the SAP training shop:
   • C4H340 – SAP Commerce Cloud Developer Part 1
   • C4H341 – SAP Commerce Cloud Developer Part 2
2. The 3 self-paced E-learning journeys on the learning.sap.com:
   • beginner level: Explore the Technical Essentials of SAP Commerce Cloud
   • intermediate level: Expand Upon Technical Essentials of SAP Commerce Cloud
   • advanced level: Mastering the Technical Essentials of SAP Commerce Cloud

However, what if you have walked through one of the 2 learning paths above, but still feel like learning a bit more technical details about specific modules, or there are further concepts/functionality within SAP Commerce Cloud that are not covered in the above technical user offerings.

No worries, we selected a list of additional technical topics and distribute them into the following 2 channels for you to dig further:

1. Expert Deep Dive Live Sessions for SAP Commerce Cloud via learning.sap.com
2. A dedicated video list of “additional technical essentials” on the openSAP Microlearning platform.

Expert Deep Dive Live Sessions for SAP Commerce Cloud

With the help of SAP authorised instructors, 4 (but more are coming) Expert Deep Dive Live Sessions will show you the related technical concepts and more system/coding demonstration about SAP Commerce Cloud. Let’s go through them 1-by-1 here:

(Please note, these live sessions are independent of each other and will repeat in a monthly frequency, so you can choose to register for any of the them if you are interested, all you need to do is clicking into the live session title below and take further check)

• Identifying Scripting Support in SAP Commerce Cloud (duration: 2 hours) – Scripting support enables developing business logic without touching the underlying Java code base and restarting/redeploying SAP Commerce Cloud. This live session gives an introduction to the scripting support and how to apply scripts in general, as well as how to use scripting in implementing ImpEx, Cronjobs, Event handling, Task engine and dynamic Business Process management.

• Getting started on Composable Storefront Development (formerly known as Spartacus) (duration: 2 hours) – Composable Storefront is a lean, Angular-based JavaScript storefront for SAP Commerce Cloud. In this live session, you will learn how to setup a local environment for the composable storefront development, including the SAP Commerce Cloud backend server and SmartEdit integration. On top of that, and as a starting point of the composable storefront customization, you will customize the backend CMS components and the frontend storefront components.

• Understanding Hot Folders and Cloud Hot Folders in SAP Commerce Cloud (Link about to be known) (duration: 1 hour) – The “Hot Folders” feature has been used as a typical way to import data into SAP Commerce Cloud via the pre-built ImpEx functionality. This live session explains the implementation, configuration and customization of the “Hot Folders” functionality, and also gives an overview of “Cloud Hot Folders” and introduces its architecture, processing flow and configuration with SAP Commerce Cloud.

• Introducing Interceptors in SAP Commerce Cloud (Link about to be known) (duration: 1 hour) – This live session introduces the concept of interceptors, different interceptor types, how to implement a new interceptor and highlight some best practices for applying the Interceptor implementation. The session ends with a practical exercise to show the concrete steps of implementing and a new interceptor and testing it on the SAP Commerce Cloud Storefront.

The “Additional Technical Essentials” Playlist

Besides the topics introduced in the expert deep dive live sessions, a new playlist named “Additional Technical Essentials” has been published on the openSAP Microlearning platform.

This playlist contains currently the following videos (but will continue to include more videos in the future), each of which is related to a technical topic related to the technical foundation of SAP Commerce Cloud, specifically:

• Customer Services in the Base Commerce Module gives an overview of customer services in the base commerce module and introduces the implemented APIs for order related customer support, such as order cancel, return and refund.
• Working with Configurable Products introduces the concept of basic configurable products and how they are implemented in SAP Commerce Cloud.
• Caching in SAP Commerce Cloud introduces the cache concept and its implementation based on EHCache, it also talks about how to customize existing and create new cache regions, and specific caching such as CMS cache.

Last but not least

The 2 channels highlighted in this blog post are being continuously updated to contain more content: either more expert deep dive live sessions or microlearning videos about further technical topics of SAP Commerce Cloud.

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