Availability policies

Version: 10.2

The Availability plugin contributes configuration policies that define behavior for the functionality provided by the plugin.

Note

Do not extend or inherit from out-of-the-box policies; instead, create your own.

You can change the values of default policies by modifying the PolicySet JSON or the Environment JSON, depending on where the policy is defined, and then re-running Bootstrap.

The Availability plugin defines the following policies:

Policy

Description

Properties / Default Values

DigitalItemTagsPolicy

Allows the specification of a list of tags that indicate an item is a digital item. Digital items are automatically considered always available and have no inventory. This is a simple way of flagging an item in the Merchandising tool as digital.

The following default tags are provided:

  • entitlement

  • service

  • installation

  • subscription

  • digital subscription

  • warranty

  • onlinetraining

  • onlinelearning

  • giftcards

You can use an environment policy to override these tags.

TagList /

"entitlement"

"service"

"installation"

"subscription"

"digitalsubscription"

"warranty"

"onlinetraining"

"onlinelearning"

"giftcards"

GlobalAvailabilityPolicy

Provides basic availability with a single property (AvailabilityExpires), indicating how long availability applies, in seconds.This allows more efficient functioning because the system does not need to check availability with an external system.

AvailabilityExpires / 10 (this represent seconds)

AvailabilityAlwaysPolicy

Indicates that inventory checks are not required on a digital sellable item (e.g., for digital items that do not have a specific inventory).

Important

This policy is only applicable to digital sellable items. Sellable items with this policy enabled are considered as digital items, and cannot use a physical shipping method. (This is checked by the IGetCartFulfillmentOptionsPipeline in the FilterCartFulfillmentOptionsBlock).

AvailabilityDateRangePolicy

Indicates that inventory checks on a sellable item are performed during a specific period (with start and end date).

AvailabilityPolicy

Provides availability and inventory information for a sellable item (with inventory SKU).

Note

Do not extend or inherit from out-of-the-box policies; instead, create your own.

You can change the values of default policies by modifying the PolicySet JSON or the Environment JSON, depending on where the policy is defined, and then re-running Bootstrap.

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