Before adding portal function to an existing store you need to consider the following:
- The flow of your store. Is your existing store flow suited to portal? When you create portlets of an existing store, without considering how portal changes the flow, you may end up with a store that is hard to navigate, and a flow that is not intuitive to the customer. Review the information in the WebSphere Portal information center and study existing portal stores available on the Internet, as well as the samples provided with Commerce Enabled Portal. Understand how the flow of a portal store you like works. Determine whether you need to change the flow of your existing store before trying to add a portal front end to it.
- Does your store use iFrame or framesets? It is not recommended that you add the portal feature to a store that uses iFrame or frames. It is possible to do so, but will take some additional work.
- Are your store pages highly customized? Highly customized JSP files that contain a lot of JavaScript may take more time to convert to the format that works with Commerce Enabled Portal.