Service Description - Pacemaker Enterprise Edition (EE) v1.3.0

Besides the general functionality, one of Pacemaker’s central added values comes out of the box is the process knowledge itself.

So it will be delivered with 3 ready to use pipelines that have been tested and are well known to work.

These ready to use Pipelines observe a configurable directory for a set of import files. Once the files are available, the import process will be initiated and executed.

These pipelines use Pacemaker Community Edition (CE) as an import library and provide the ability to import catalog data (attributes, attribute-sets, categories, and products), prices, and inventory (stock).

The predefined processes are highly extensible. There are many interfaces, which can be replaced by developers to change

The ready-to-use order export pipeline manages the export of orders.

It provides many extension points for customizations, allowing developers to offer their export and transport adapters.

The order export can be configured for each website individually.

So different export formats and transport adapters can be chosen for each website and the filter criteria, which defines if an order is ready for export.

The default implementation allows multiple payments method and order status combinations as filter criteria.

The export format is configurable for each website and can be easily extended by custom modules. By default, Pacemaker provides a file-based export, which can be configured as a template in Magento’s admin GUI.

The transport adapter can also be configured for each website.

By default, Pacemaker provides a local file system adapter, which allows the export file to persist on any place within your web server.

Optional handler for external system response, asynchronous answers from ERP or OMS.

By default, there is a JSON file expected, which will be automatically executed.

This behavior can easily be changed with custom adapters.

Extension point to handle confirmation mail depending on ERP/OMS response. It is disabled by default.

As the Pacemaker Professional Edition (PE) comes with a basic converter library that provides basic functionality to convert files from the source into the expected CSV format, an additional operation will be available.

As, in general, it will be possible to add any custom operation, this operation is virtual and needs to be implemented as needed

Products

As product import has the main focus in most cases, the Pacemaker Professional Edition (PE) focuses on improving performance, especially in that case.

The Pacemaker Professional Edition (PE) extends the CLI with additional commands and options

From a technical point of view, the Import Library can be used in two different ways.

Either from within Magento or from outside.

Using it from within Magento, e.g. when the installation has been taken place as Composer dependency, simplifies usage in that way, that it will read most of the necessary configuration from the Magento installation itself.

Using it as a middleware, those configuration has to be specified on the CLI or must be part of the configuration file.

Pacemaker Community Edition (CE) comes with a CLI application that allows executing the commands to achieve the expected result.

An operation defines a set of functionality that will be executed during the import process. Therefore the operation names reflect the import behavior that can be expected from it. The following import operations are available.

The standard connector supports importing the following entity types.

The CSV file format of the product import is mostly compatible with the Magento standard CSV format.

Product Types

The product import with the standard connector supports the following product types

Additional Functionality

Besides importing products itself, additionally, the following product-related data can be imported

Clean-Up Functionality (add-update operation only)

Nearly in every case, the add-update operation is the one that will fit the requirements best. One common restriction of this operation is that it only adds new or updates existing data.

As in many cases, it will be necessary to remove data. The standard connector comes with a clean-up functionality for the most critical data.

The clean-up functionality can easily be activated/deactivated in the configuration.

As Magento itself has no category import at all, the CSV file format is specific but uses the same approaches whenever possible.

General

Additional Functionality

Clean-Up Functionality (add-update operation only)

Magento itself already provides customer import functionality. The Import Library functionality supports the same CSV format.

General

Magento itself already provides customers address import functionality. The Import Library functionality supports the same CSV format.

Import Library provides the possibility to import attribute sets and groups.

As Magento itself has no attribute set and group import at all, the format for the CSV file of the import is specific but uses the same approaches whenever possible.

General

As the attribute import, the attribute set and group import are also not based on the Magento EAV model.

Additional Functionality

Import Library provides the possibility to import attributes as well as their option values.

As Magento itself has no attribute import at all, the format for the CSV file of the attribute import is specific but uses the same approaches whenever possible.

General

In contrast to the other entities, the attribute import is not based on the EAV model approach, as the different entity types are.

Additional Functionality

Translation of labels and option/swatch values on store view level