Business users create and refine commerce catalogs using ATG Merchandising. When you use ATG Merchandising, you set up catalogs and populate them with categories, products and SKUs. Your products and SKUs may also have images and copy that need to be created, refined, and ultimately deployed to your live Web site.
Each task performed in a catalog is tracked in a project. There are several benefits to this approach. For one, the changes you make to your products, for example, are saved as discrete versions. You can view old versions as well as merge two versions to create a new one. Also, since each project has a defined set of tasks, when you finish your task, your project advances to the next task. For example, after you update a product description, the project advances to the copy review task, which is a task that might be performed by another user. In this way, ATG Merchandising automates the catalog development process relying on the features of ATG Content Administration.
This guide covers the following topics:
Overview of ATG Merchandising
Describes ATG Merchandising key concepts and resources.
Getting Started
Provides instruction to administrators for installing an evaluation and a purchased copy of ATG Merchandising.
Configuring ATG Merchandising
Explains how to set up a purchased copy of ATG Merchandising.
Using the ATG Merchandising User Interface
Describes the features of the main ATG Merchandising UI and how to access it.
Locating Assets
Details the places where you can find the assets you want modify.
Creating and Organizing Assets
Explains how to create individual, duplicate, link, unlink, and move assets.
Modifying and Previewing the Properties of Assets in a Catalog
Describes how to update individual property values as well as values on several assets at once. Also, describes how to overwrite values provided in the current project with those from the last.
Defining Promotions
Supplies set up instructions for promotions.
Using and Defining Price Lists
Provides the information you need to set up price lists and assign them to users.
Defining Facets
Describes how facets work and the configuration options available to them.
Defining Search Configurations
Explains the rules and settings on a search configuration used to control the list of products or SKUs that display as search results to customers.
Removing Assets
Explains how to delete assets and de-activate promotions as well as provides background information on deletions.
Customizing the ATG Merchandising User Interfacenterface
Explains how to customize workflows, views, UI labels, and asset types as well as describes how to control the inclusion of existing screen elements and asset properties.
Appendix A, : Asset Properties
Describes the properties on an asset in a catalog and how to update them.
