Strategy Designer Technical Guide
This guide is for Strategy Designer version 1.0.0 and newer, released as part of the Paper Plane release on June 25th, 2023. As of July 12th, the latest release is 1.0.1.
Strategy Designer is a visual interface for configuring selected aspects of the Accelerate Price Setting Package (PSP) which it also depends on.
The main focus of Strategy Designer is to allow business users to configure custom strategies that would otherwise need to be coded in Groovy. Strategy Designer provides visual experience powered by Google Blockly technology (open source).
The main features of Strategy Designer are:
Feature | Configures the following part of PSP |
|---|---|
Design custom strategies using a drag & drop interface. | Custom Engines |
Assign strategies to different product segments and set each strategy’s importance. | Strategy Importance |
Preview each strategy’s result in a Live Preview panel. | PSP does not have this feature. |
Deploy the strategies and the importance settings to the partition. | Â |
What Strategy Designer is not:
Replacement of the Price Setting module. You need to manage you data, price lists, and price grids using the standard Pricefx modules.
Visual designer for any Groovy logic. It just allows users to create custom strategies that are handled by the Price Setting Package accelerator. It does not work independently and cannot be used without it.
Viewer of data stored in your partition. Although the Live Preview functionality offers you some visibility into your data, it is very limited. Browsing the master data tables or Company Parameters in Pricefx gives you features such as filtering, sorting, storing your preferences, and thus offers much better experience.
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