After you have installed ATG Merchandising, configured your database tables, and assembled and deployed the application, complete the configuration steps necessary to set up ATG Merchandising for your site.
Before you begin:
Follow the procedures in Chapter 2, Installing ATG Merchandising, to install the application, configure the versioned database tables, and import required content.
Set up the production database for your ATG Commerce site. See the Configuring a Production Database chapter of the ATG Commerce Programming Guide.
Run ATG Merchandising. See Running ATG Merchandising.
Use the following steps to configure ATG Merchandising:
Set up deployment resources. See Configuring Deployment Resources.
Configure workflows that will be available to ATG Merchandising projects. See Configuring Workflows.
Create accounts for the internal users who will be using ATG Merchandising. See Setting Up User Accounts and Roles.
Depending on how you’ve implemented
AccessControlServlet, you may need to make some adjustments to it so that it works properly with ATG Merchandising. See Configuring AccessControlServlet.Configure the Catalog Maintenance Service, and if you have custom catalogs, the Catalog Completion Service, for each server in your target cluster. See Configuring a Target Cluster.
If you’d like asset, property, and asset-type level security, implement the resources required of the secured repositories feature. See Configuring Secured and Unsecured Repositories.
If you are using ATG Business Commerce, you can enable or disable price lists. See Working with Prices.
If you have ATG Merchandising and ATG Search, configure Search Merchandising features, as follows:
Configure facet inheritance. See Configuring Facet Inheritance. For guidance on how to architect a facet strategy, see Designing a Site with Multiple Facets.
See Structuring the Search Configuration Tree to learn how to design a tree of search configurations and search configuration folders and Administering Search Configurations for a description of administrative set up tasks.
Configure Search Testing to define test options that match the way searches are performed on your site. See Configuring Search Testing.
Customize the ATG Merchandising UI as needed. The tabs, buttons, and properties you see in ATG Merchandising can be visible or hidden from users. See Customizing ATG Merchandising in this guide and Configuring the Asset Manager in the ATG Business Control Center Administration and Development Guide.
Shutdown ATG Merchandising and re-assemble, redeploy, and restart your application. See Running ATG Merchandising.
