Akeneo Connector for Salesforce Commerce Cloud

About Akeneo Connector for Salesforce Commerce Cloud

The Akeneo Connector has been certified under version 21.0.0 of Salesforce Commerce Cloud.

Salesforce Commerce Cloud integration is a certified plug-in for the Salesforce Commerce Cloud platform. Leveraging Akeneo API technology, this extension is designed to work with the following versions of Akeneo PIM, for both Community and Enterprise editions.

Akeneo Connector is also compatible with the latest StoreFront Reference Architecture of Salesforce Commerce Cloud as well as the Model View Controller.

Release notes

21.1.0

Enhancement

• The cartridge now uses the Akeneo API Category filters when requesting products, based on the configuration field "topLevelCategoryID"

21.0.0

• Certified version, this involves some modifications:
  • The cartridge has been renamed in 'bm_akeneo` for the Salesforce Commerce Cloud certified connector. Please note that: 

Steps for Akeneo connector cartridge renaming : 
- upload the new cartridge version on the target plateform
- edit the Site configuration so that it now uses the bm_akeneo cartridge : 
  Manage Sites => "SiteName" => Settings and in the Cartridges field, rename bc_akeneo to bm_akeneo
- delete the old "x-Akeneo-...' jobs
- import the new metadatas (Administration > Site Import & Export)
To make sure the jobs are pointing to the correct cartridge, go to Administration > Jobs > Open any of the "x-Akeneo-..." job, go to the "Job Steps" tab. The "ExecuteScriptModule.Module" field should point to a path starting with "bm_akeneo".

• The code compatibility mode switched from 18.10 to 19.10

20.5.0

New feature

• The connector manages association with quantity feature in a bundle association type

Enhancement

• Changes to configuration interface's labels and documentation

Bug fixes

• Remove category assignment duplicates on variants

20.4.0

New feature

• Add support for prefix/suffix parameter for media URL

Enhancement

• Changes to configuration interface's labels and documentation

Bug fixes

• Remove category assignment duplicates on variants

20.3.10

Bug fixes

• Leave AkeneoCatalogRunTime as it is and only updates it if the job succeeds (with the date of the beginning of the job execution)

20.3.9

Enhancement

• The both way product association (A <==> B) and simple way (A ==> B) have been implemented.

Bug fixes

• Null check on storefront catalog header (SDS-17263)

20.3.8

Enhancement

• Now consider the "Start time" of the last successful import job for differential imports.

Bug Fix

• Missing NULL check on writeImagesXML.js is not creating an error anyway

• A proper Error message is logged when image view type setting is empty

• Code checking for image view type settings when image import is not enabled

20.3.7

Bug Fix

• Bug Fix: Null Pointer Exception in generateImagesXML.js

20.3.6

Enhancement

• Introduced new configuration for mapping Media Assets Attributes to SFCC Image Viewtypes

20.3.5

Bug Fix

• Bug Fix: Can't get labels from attributes when using mappings

20.3.4

Bug Fix

• Storefront Import does not throw warning anymore when running an import without Categories

20.3.3

New feature

• You can decide to not copy the PIM categories into SFCC. More detail online

20.3.2

Enhancement

• Asset and Media jobs are more resilient to errors, which means if an error occurs in the asset import process, then the import job status will be in orange with the WARNING label. Details of the error are explicitly written down in the import log file.

Bug fix

• Multi-select Bug Fix

20.3.1

Enhancement:

• in order to have a direct visualization of the variant medias, we have created thumbnails in the image grid.

20.3.0

Features:

• The cartridge is now compatible with the new 4.0 Asset Manager and allow you to manage:

  • IMAGES (URL or Upladed images in the PIM)

  • VIDEO (Youtube & Vimeo links only)

  • FILES - PDF or Other (URL or Uploaded media in the PIM

Enhancement:

• To overcome the SharedLibrary limitation we have decided to change slightly the way to store the media information as a product attribute. Please check the related online documetation

20.2.3

Enhancement:

• Performance issues fix.

20.2.2

Features:

• Possibility for the user to synchronize the PIM enable/Disable status with the SalesForce onlineFlag property.

Enhancement:

• You now have the possibility to link PIM attributes to 32 standards SF attribute (instead of 8 before):

["EAN", "UPC", "unit", "minOrderQuantity", "stepQuantity", "name", "shortDescription", "longDescription", "onlineFlag", "onlineFrom", "onlineTo", "searchable", "searchableIfUnavailable", "template", "taxClassID", "brand", "manufacturerName", "manufacturerSKU", "searchPlacement", "searchRank", "siteMapIncluded", "siteMapChangeFrequency", "siteMapPriority", "pageTitle", "pageDescription", "pageKeywords", "pageUrl", "pinterestEnabled", "facebookEnabled", "storeReceiptName", "storeForcePriceEnabled", "storeNonInventoryEnabled", "storeNonRevenueEnabled", "storeNonDiscountableEnabled"]

note: those one are not mappable:

["ID", "UUID", "lastModified", "creationDate"] => reserved to the SF system auto generation

["available", "image", "thumbnail", "storeTaxClass"] => deprecated by SF

20.2.1

Bug fix:

• Bad product attribute grouping (due to a PIM API evolution).

20.2.0

New features:

• Compliance with New Asset Manager, image-based assets only (Documentation)
• Improve Product model mapping (compliance for variant axes attribute types). It is now possible to create a product variation axis of those kinds (Documentation):
  • Simple select
  • Reference entity single link (EE only)
  • Measurement (ex metric)
  • Boolean (Yes/No)

Enhancements:

• Be able to have more than 1 attribute on the first variation axis to spread images in the created variations in SFCC (as a gift, the attributes for variation are now automatically gathered)
• To avoid the contributed refinement to disappear at every import, a new job has to be created on the SF side to copy those refinements in a cache.

Bug fix:

• Wrong catalog import and out of memory error, fixed
• The recommendation issues (not working anymore), fixed
• Be able to select the assets by picking the scope/channel under consideration, fixed

20.1.2

• Bug fix: If simple/multi-select attribute is deselected in PIM, it will now reflect the change in SFCC.

20.1.1

• Salesforce certified version
• In SFCC Marketplace this version is available as 20.1.0 as per SFCC's version number standards
• We release the same certified version as version number 20.1.1 because we already released a version with number 20.1.0 earlier this year in our GitHub before getting certification from SFCC for this year

20.1.0

• Introduced custom cache
• Certification fixes

19.10.1

• Clearing impex directories before executing each job

19.10.0

• Full sync optimization
• Removed usage of custom objects in model-variation import

19.9.0

• New feature added: Import Product Bundle (Documentation)

19.8.0

• New feature added: Import Reference Entities (Documentation)

19.7.1

• Documentation corrected/updated

19.7.0

• New feature added: Support mutliple organizations and storefronts (Documentation)

19.6.1

• Multiple bug fixes

19.6.0

• New feature added: Import Model-Model-Variations into Model-Variation Group-Variations (Documentation)

19.5.3

• Filter attribute meta import

19.5.1

• Updated feature: Advanced Filter Builder

19.5.0

• New feature - Import association as Product Sets (Documentation)

19.4.1

• New feature - Import association as Product Links (OR Recommendations) (Documentation)

19.3.3

• Bug fix: Empty attribute for product variation

19.3.2

• Bug fixes on API Token refresh

19.3.1

• Upgraded to Script Module version
• Find the steps to migrate from existing Pipeline version to Script Module version in our documentation

19.2.3

• Bug fix on asset update

Note: Re-import of custom-objecttype-definitions is recommended

19.2.2

• Bug fixes: Asset update
• Bug fixes: Adding variation to already imported Master

Note: Expecting a one time full import just after applying these bug fixes

19.2.1

• Bug fix: importing multiple types of Table attributes

19.2.0

Certified version

Akeneo Connector for Salesforce Commerce Cloud (Akeneo PIM v.2.3)

• Jobs are configured to trigger pipelines
• Imports Master-Variation products
• Imports product associations