Merchandising uses ATG Content Administration to manage and deploy versioned commerce assets. In order to use the ATG Content Administration mechanisms, Merchandising requires users to create and manage assets within a project.
The project enables a merchandiser to control the following aspects of asset management:
Creating, editing, and maintaining versioned commerce assets
Tracking the project’s assets through the review and approval processes
Deploying the project’s assets to a live web site
Merchandising includes the following project type selections on the Business Control Center Operations list:
Manage Commerce Assets
A merchandiser uses this project type to create, add, modify, organize, and delete commerce assets.
Administer Commerce Search (ATG Search is required)
An administrator uses this project type to configure Search Merchandising, including creating the search configuration tree and adding properties for property prioritization.
When you are logged in to the Business Control Center as a merchandiser, your Merchandising project can include and manage assets in the following categories. These appear as selections in the drop-down menu above the Browse pane:
Merchandising
Search Merchandising
SEO Tags
Price Lists
Site Administration (if your site is configured for the Site Administration utility)
Targeting and Segmentation
See the chapter Creating and Managing Projects in the ATG Content Administration Guide for Business Users, for basic information about projects, workflows, and versioned assets in ATG Content Administration. See Creating and Organizing Assets in the ATG Merchandising Guide for Business Users for information about creating merchandising assets.
