Fredhopper Discovery Platform 26.9.0 is fully compatible with the previous release, FAS 26.8.0.

No special actions are required when upgrading from FAS 26.8.0 to FAS 26.9.0.

Merchandising Studio multi instance management (Multi MS feature)

Merchandising Studio now supports multi instance management. This means that now it is possible from a particular Merchandising Studio instance to:

• switch to other instances which are managed by the same customer
• copy and synchronize rules to all instances

In order for the functionality to be enabled, a feature switch is added under /com/fredhopper/bm named multi-ms-enabled. The default value is false. To enable it, set this to true.

Example:

<node name="bm">
	<map>
        <entry key="multi-ms-enabled" value="true"/>
	</map>
</node>

Configuring switching between different account instances

Merchandising Studio now has the ability to switch between different account instances. The drop-down switcher relies on each FAS instance advertising its own URL via the config-copy extension. Without this configuration, the drop-down will not show an entry for the instance. To configure the instance URL, populate the FH_INSTANCE_URL environment variable with the URL of the FAS instance. Example:

FH_INSTANCE_URL=https://my-instance.fredhopperservices.com

The URL must point to the base address of the FAS instance (no trailing slash needed; one is stripped automatically).

Remote Config Copy (RCC) extension

A new version of the config-copy extension (version 4.1) has been released, compatible with the multi MS feature. This version must be supplied to FAS for this functionality to work.

Warning: The config-copy extension version 4.1 is not compatible with older FAS versions. If a downgrade from FAS 26.9.0 to FAS 26.8.0 is required, the config-copy extension must also be downgraded to version 4.0.