Custom websites

Circle allows you to personalize a custom website, providing you with the configuration file that gives you access to the project’s plan file and data source.

You can work with multiple custom websites in a single project.

The custom website resides on your own or your customer's network, such as Amazon, and is manually created and managed by you.

Before creating a custom website, you need to upload the plan file and data source to the system in order to create the configuration file.

Notes:

  • A project supports only one managed website.

  • You can create, design and personalize your website pages using any web design tool, and tag it with XMPL using the Cheat Sheet for web.

Work with a custom website

  1. Log in to Circle and open the project for which you want to create a website.

  2. In the library, in the left pane, click Website.

    The website settings for the current project are displayed.

  3. In the Configuration file area, click the Download icon.

    The system creates and downloads the configuration file.

  4. Save the configuration file in your website folders.

    The configuration file contains the token that enables your webpages to access the plan file and data source. Using this token, your webpages can now access your recipient data.

  5. Select Enable use of custom website deployment.

    Selecting this option allows you to configure webpage touchpoints for custom site webpages.

To support you in building a custom website, Circle provides links to the following from the Website pane:

  • Information on XMPL

  • Download the SDK

Download the configuration file to a custom website

You might need to download the configuration file for the following reasons:

  • If you revoked the token enabling access to project data, the system creates a new configuration file and generates a new token.

  • If you are working with a custom website, you need to download the configuration file from the library and save it to your Test and Live folders.

To download the configuration file:

  1. In the library, in the left pane, click Website.

    The website settings for the current project are displayed.

  2. In the Configuration file area, click the Download icon.

    You are prompted to save or open the file.

  3. Save the configuration file in your website folders.