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Install Data Connection

Before you install the extension, review the prerequisites.

Install the extension

The Data Connection extension is available from the . When you install this extension from the command line of the server, it connects to your ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Commerce installation as a service. When the process is complete, Data Connection and Commerce Services Connector appear on the System menu under Services in the Commerce Admin.

Data Connection extension Admin view

IMPORTANT
While the name of the extension has changed from Experience Platform connector to Data Connection, the package name remains experience-platform-connector to support backward compatibility.
  1. To download the experience-platform-connector package, run the following from the command line:

    code language-bash
    composer require magento/experience-platform-connector
    

    This metapackage contains the following modules and extensions:

    • magento/orders-connector
    • magento/data-services
    • magento/customers-connector
    • magento/module-experience-connector
    • magento/module-experience-connector-admin
    • magento/module-experience-connector-admin-graph-ql
    • magento/module-experience-connector-aep-integration
  2. (Optional) To include Live Search data, which comprises search events, install the Live Search extension.

  3. (Optional) To include B2B data, which comprises requisition events, install the B2B extension.

Install ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ I/O Events and configure the customers-connector module

After you install the experience-platform-connector extension, you must install ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ I/O Events for ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Commerce and configure the customers-connector module.

The following steps apply to both ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Commerce on cloud infrastructure and on-premises installations.

  1. If you are running Commerce 2.4.4 or 2.4.5, use the following command to load the eventing modules:

    code language-bash
    composer require magento/commerce-eventing=^1.0 --no-update
    

    Commerce 2.4.6 and later loads these modules automatically.

  2. Update the project dependencies.

    code language-bash
    composer update
    
  3. Enable the new modules:

    code language-bash
    bin/magento module:enable Magento_ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵCommerceEventsClient Magento_ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵCommerceEventsGenerator Magento_ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵIoEventsClient Magento_ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵCommerceOutOfProcessExtensibility
    

Finalize installation based on the deployment type: ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Commerce on Cloud infrastructure or on-premises.

On Cloud infrastructure

In ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Commerce on Cloud infrastructure, enable the ENABLE_EVENTING global variable in .magento.env.yaml. Learn more.

stage:
   global:
      ENABLE_EVENTING: true

Commit and push updated files to the Cloud environment. When deployment is finished, enable sending events with the following command:

bin/magento config:set adobe_io_events/eventing/enabled 1

On-premises

In on-premises environments, you must manually enable code generation and ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Commerce Events:

bin/magento events:generate:module
bin/magento module:enable Magento_ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵCommerceEvents
bin/magento setup:upgrade
bin/magento setup:di:compile
bin/magento config:set adobe_io_events/eventing/enabled 1

Install the B2B extension

For B2B merchants, install the following extension to include requisition list event data.

Download the magento/experience-platform-connector-b2b extension by running the following from the command line:

composer require magento/experience-platform-connector-b2b

Update the Data Connection extension update

To update the Data Connection extension, run the following from the command line:

composer update magento/experience-platform-connector --with-dependencies

Or, for B2B merchants:

composer update magento/experience-platform-connector-b2b --with-dependencies

To update to a major version such as from 2.0.0 to 3.0.0, edit the project’s root Composer .json file as follows:

  1. Open the root composer.json file and search for magento/experience-platform-connector.

  2. In the require section, update the version number as follows:

    code language-json
    "require": {
       ...
       "magento/experience-platform-connector": "^3.0",
       ...
     }
    
  3. Save composer.json. Then, run the following from the command line:

    code language-bash
    composer update magento/experience-platform-connector –-with-dependencies
    

    Or, for B2B merchants:

    code language-bash
    composer update magento/experience-platform-connector-b2b --with-dependencies
    

Uninstall the Data Connection extension uninstall

To uninstall the Data Connection extension, refer to uninstall modules.

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