Product Search Executor for Guided Selling

A Product Search Executor plugin filters the results of a guided selling prompt after a sales rep’s input. It consists of a Visualforce controller and Visualforce page, which you can associate with a specific quote process within a guided selling configuration. It’s useful if you want to add an extra level of guided selling product filtering beyond what sales reps can control.

To use an executor with a quote process, go to the quote process’s Product Search Executor field and enter c__ followed by the Visualforce page’s name.

Example

Your organization sells laptop workstations. A guided selling prompt lets sales reps filter your product catalog by memory, screen size, and type of processor. You could also make a simple product search executor plugin that further filters their results by active products and products that aren’t bundle components.

Here’s a sample APEX controller for your plugin.

1public with sharing class TWProductSearchController {
2    public Product2[] products {get; set;}
3    public String error {get; set;}
4    public TWProductSearchController() {
5        products = [SELECT Id FROM Product2 WHERE IsActive = true AND SBQQ__Component__c = false];
6    }
7}

And here’s a sample Visualforce page.

1<apex:page controller="TWProductSearchController" contentType="text/xml" showHeader="false" sidebar="false">
2    <products error="{!error}">
3    <apex:repeat var="product" value="{!products}">
4        <product id="{!product.Id}"/>
5    </apex:repeat>
6    </products>
7</apex:page>