Merchandisers have specialized requirements for the development of each commerce site. Before merchandisers begin to create assets, administrators and programmers must set up and configure the Merchandising environment to accommodate these requirements. Among the setups are:
Internal user accounts and roles, which define internal user access to parts of the application. See Setting Up Roles and User Accounts.
Workflows for Merchandising projects. See Working with Projects.
The topology for deployment, including staging and production (live) sites. See Setting Up Deployment in the ATG Content Administration Programming Guide.
Configurations that influence the search results when Merchandising interacts with ATG Search. See information about Search Merchandising in the ATG Merchandising Guide for Business Users.
View mapping and task configuration file settings to customize the Merchandising UI. See the chapter Customizing the UI for Specific Tasks and Activities in the ATG Business Control Center Administration and Development Guide.
Site pages, to implement displays of content provided by Merchandising assets, such as targeters, scenarios, and faceted search results. See the ATG Page Developer's Guide.
