About This Document


The iPlanet Market Maker Catalog Import Guide provides information to the user who needs to import seller catalogs into an iPlanet Market Maker marketplace.

The following sections are contained in this preface:

• Audience

• What's in This Document

• Documentation Conventions

• The Document Online

• Related Documentation

• Other Useful Documentation

• Product Support

Audience

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The audience for this guide is the user who needs to import seller catalogs into an iPlanet Market Maker marketplace.

To import catalogs successfully, you must be familiar with the information in ", ", and the extensible markup language (XML). This information is especially important to know before importing a catalog for the first time.

What's in This Document

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The following table summarizes what each chapter covers.

Table 0-1    Chapter Summaries

If you want to know about this	See this chapter
Concepts you need to be familiar with to prepare to import catalogs	Chapter 1 "Catalog Concepts"
Conventions that the Import utility uses to represent catalog data	Chapter 2 "Representing Catalog Information"
How to set up and run the Import utility	Chapter 3 "Running the Import Utility"

Documentation Conventions

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This document uses the following conventions:

• The monospace font is used for sample code and code listings, Application Program Interface (API) and language elements (such as method names and property names), file names, path names, directory names, Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) tags, and any text that must be typed on the page.

• The italic font is used in code to represent placeholder parameters (variables) that should be replaced with an actual value.

• Brackets ([]) are used to enclose optional parameters.

• A slash (/) is used to separate directories in a path. (Windows NT supports both the slash and the backslash.)

The Document Online

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You can find this document online in Portable Document Format (PDF) and HTML format at the following web site:

http://docs.iplanet.com/docs/manuals

Related Documentation

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Note	Documentation for all iPlanet products can be found at the following web site: http://docs.iplanet.com/docs/manuals/

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The iPlanet Market Maker documentation set includes:

• Release Notes—Contains important information on the current release of iPlanet Market Maker. Read this document before working with the new iPlanet Market Maker release.

• Installation Guide—Provides instructions for installing the iPlanet Market Maker product and its enabling software.

• User interface Help (Online Help)—Provides guidelines and instructions for performing the iPlanet Market Maker tasks.

• Catalog Import Guide—Provides guidelines and instructions for setting up and running the Import utility.

• Customization Guide—Provides guidelines for customizing the existing iPlanet Market Maker user interface and module functionality.

• Exchange Module Customization Guide—Provides guidelines for customizing services to create exchanges.

• Deployment Guide—Provides guidelines for planning the deployment, installing and configuring the software, importing and configuring data, and tuning and monitoring performance.

• Upgrade Guide—Provides guidelines for planning, preparing and performing upgrades to the iPlanet Market Maker software.

Other Useful Documentation

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• iPlanet Application Server Installation Guide—Provides guidelines for installing the iPlanet Application Server.

• iPlanet Application Server Administrator's Guide—Provides guidelines for tasks carried out by the administrator of one or more iPlanet Application Server machines.

• iPlanet Web Server Administrator's Guide—Provides guidelines for configuring, administering, and maintaining the iPlanet Web Server.

• iPlanet Directory Server Documentation—Provides guidelines for platform requirements and the iPlanet Directory Server installation.

• ECXpert Administrator's Guide—Explains concepts, structure, functions, and operation of iPlanet ECXpert, and provides guidelines for administering the system.

• ECXpert Operations Reference Guide—Explains ECXpert operational issues, and provides a reference on error messages that can be generated by ECXpert or passed through from third-party software components that ECXpert uses.

• Oracle 8i and 9i Installation Guide for Sun SPARC Solaris—Provides guidelines for installing Oracle.

• Oracle 8i and 9i Designing and Tuning for Performance—Provides guidelines for Oracle database design, and for tuning and monitoring performance.

• Oracle 8i interMedia Text Reference—Provides guidelines for text searching, retrieval, and viewing capabilities.

• Actuate documentation.

Product Support

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If you have problems with your iPlanet Market Maker system, contact iPlanet customer support using one of the following mechanisms:

• Visit the iPlanet online support web site at:

  http://www.iplanet.com/support/online/

  From this location, the CaseTracker and CaseView tools are available for logging problems.

• Use the telephone dispatch number associated with your maintenance contract.

  So that the technical support staff can best assist you in resolving problems, have the following information available when you contact support:

  • Description of the problem, including the situation where the problem occurs and its impact on your operation.

  • Machine type, operating system version, and product version, including any patches and other software that might be affecting the problem.

  • Detailed steps on the methods you have used to reproduce the problem.

  • Any error logs or core dumps.