Synchronization of Approval State from SAP Commerce to SAP Marketing Cloud

[torsten-mittag]

Hi,

I'm trying to synchronize the products approval state to the SAP Marketing Cloud.

Some basic informations before:

• We are using SAP Commerce 6.7
• I have successfully integrated the synchronization of product data (and other data) via the Expressway Integration

The Marketing Cloud has a build in system for storing the products approval state, we can see this among others on the product view and the recommendation scenarios (as filter option). Therefore we now need also to transfer the approval state, but in my interface definition I can't find a field for this.

I get my actual definition from an XML, wich will be parsed and cached on the first call to the Marketing Cloud interface. This is using the CUAN import service. The XML is available under an URL like:

https://<SAP_Marketing_Cloud_Instance>/sap/opu/odata/sap/CUAN_IMPORT_SRV/$metadata

So my question is, is there a way to enable the build in approval system for the used interface? If yes, where can I enable this setting?

I hope, I collected all necessary data for my problem.

Thanks in advance & best regards

Torsten Mittag

[silviabackes]

Hi Torsten, Please close the question using the Best Answer button for Josef's answer. Or get back to us with more info. Thanks and kind regards, Silvia

[Josef_Ehbauer · Accepted solution]

Hi Torsten,

there are two things to be named as answer on your inquiry:

1. Marketing Cloud doesn't have a standard attribute for an approval state of a product.
(Maybe you confuse this with the expiration date, which could be somehow misuse on purpose).
The much better approach would probably be a custom specific attribute, which you add by means of extensibility.

2.If you do so, you can use our standard interface API_MKT_PRODUCTS_SRV to integrate the product approval state into the defined extensibility field.
Note there is a standard integration package for commerce cloud available as of release 1905, which could be used for ootb integration of products from commerce cloud.

( Refer to the package in the API Hubhttps://api.sap.com/package/SAPCommerceintegrationwithSAPMarketing?section=Overview and https://api.sap.com/integrationflow/ProductOutboundTest )

Maybe this serves also in your case.

Kind Regards,
Josef Ehbauer

SAP Marketing Cloud Product Management