The ATG Merchandising application relies on features in ATG Commerce and ATG Content Administration. You can find instructions for working with these products in a variety of places. Here’s a key to finding the information you need:
Task | Audience | Guide |
|---|---|---|
Developing catalogs and their categories, products, and SKUs (also called commerce assets) in a content management environment that uses projects to manage the tasks you perform and maintains versions of the assets you edit. | Business Users | Covered in several chapters in this guide |
Accessing ATG Merchandising | Business Users | See the Using the ATG Merchandising User Interface chapter of this guide |
Conceptual information about projects, workflows, non-commerce assets and other content management terms. | All | |
Description of the ATG Business Control Center user interface and the content management features it provides. | Business Users | |
Accessing ATG Business Control Center | Business Users, Site Administrators | See the Accessing the ATG Business Control Center section in the ATG Content Administration Guide for Business Users |
Creating a catalog and populating it with categories, products and SKUs in a non-content management environment. | Business Users | See the ATG Commerce Catalog Administration chapter of the ATG Commerce Guide to Setting Up a Store |
Working with all out-of the-box commerce features, such as promotions, price lists, and coupons. | Business Users | Covered in several chapters in this guide |
Tailoring the search results that display to site visitors based on their characteristics by building a tree of search configurations. | Business Users, Site Administrators | Covered in several chapters in this guide |
Creating facets and defining selections. | Business Users | Covered in several chapters in this guide |
Developing JSPs that implement facets in site pages. | Page Developers | See the Dynamic Search and Navigation chapter of the ATG Commerce Search Guide |
Technical description of catalogs, categories, products, SKUs and other Repository Items. | Page Developers, Programmers | See the ATG Commerce Catalog Administration chapter of the ATG Commerce Guide to Setting Up a Store |
Accessing ATG Control Center | Page Developers, Programmers | In the Windows Start menu, select Programs > ATG 2007.3 > Tools > ATG Control Center |
Building JSPs that use Commerce servlet beans. | Page Developers | |
Starting up ATG Merchandising | Site Administrators | See the Running ATG Merchandising section of this guide |
Installing database tables in support of ATG Merchandising, ATG Commerce, and ATG Content Administration | Site Administrators | The process is outlined in the Getting Started chapter of this guide and includes a cross reference to the ATG Content Administration Programming Guide |
Understanding and configuring site services for generating search configurations and associating them with search queries. | Site Administrators, Programmers | See the Search Merchandising chapter of the ATG Commerce Search Guide |
Customizing the ATG Business Control Center | Programmers |
