About This Document


The BuyerXpert/SellerXpert 4.1 Administrator's Guide provides information on how to administer a fully-installed BuyerXpert/SellerXpert system.

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Note	In most cases, the material in this document applies to both BuyerXpert and SellerXpert. Where it does not, an asterisk (*) at the beginning of a chapter name/heading or at the end of a line indicates that the material applies to BuyerXpert only.

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This preface contains the following sections:

• Audience

• What's in This Document

• Documentation Conventions

• The Document Online

• How to Use the Online Help

• Related Documentation

• Product Support

Audience

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The audience for this guide is the BuyerXpert/SellerXpert administrator as well as personnel performing administrative tasks, including professional services and support personnel.

A BuyerXpert/SellerXpert administrator should have experience in working with and administering the following:

• Multi-hosted systems

• Web servers, directory servers, and application servers

• UNIX operating system

• Oracle and LDAP databases

• TCP/IP communications

• Open buying on the internet (OBI)

• Internet browsers

What's in This Document

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Table 1 summarizes what each chapter covers.

Table 1    Chapter Summary

If you want to know about this	See this chapter
Description of contents of this guide; listing of documentation set; information on product support	"About This Document"
Main tasks that a BuyerXpert/SellerXpert administrator performs	Chapter 1 "Overview of BuyerXpert/SellerXpert Administration"
Access and security administration	Chapter 2 "Configuring Access"
Descriptions of the BuyerXpert/SellerXpert resources	Chapter 3 "About BuyerXpert/SellerXpert Resources"
Guidelines for setting up BuyerXpert/SellerXpert resources	Chapter 4 "Setting Up Resources"
Information and guidelines on setting up business rules	Chapter 5 "Setting Up Business Rules"
Taxation setup	Chapter 6 "Setting Up Taxation"
Seller catalogs administration	Chapter 7 "Administering Catalogs"
Information and guidelines on using the data Import utility	Chapter 8 "Importing Data"
Timecard administration	Chapter 9 "*Administering Timecards"
Information on administering reports, including instructions for creating new reports	Chapter 10 "Reports"
Guidelines on implementing customizations; instructions for customizing some of the BuyerXpert/SellerXpert functions	Chapter 11 "Configuration and Customization"
Worksheets for gathering information to set up BuyerXpert/SellerXpert	Appendix A "Worksheets"
Information on privilege levels for BuyerXpert/SellerXpert resources	Appendix B "Resource Privileges"
BuyerXpert/SellerXpert-to-LDAP equivalency information	Appendix C "BuyerXpert/SellerXpert Mapping to LDAP"
Samples of BuyerXpert/SellerXpert configuration files	Appendix D "Configuration Files"
BuyerXpert/SellerXpert terminology	"Glossary"

Documentation Conventions

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This document uses the following conventions:

• The monospace font is used for sample code and code listings, Application Program Interface (API) and language elements (such as method names and property names), file names, path names, directory names, Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) tags, and any text that must be typed on the screen.

• The italic font is used in code to represent placeholder parameters (variables) that should be replaced with an actual value.

• Brackets ([]) are used to enclose optional parameters.

• A slash (/) is used to separate directories in a path. (Windows NT supports both the slash and the backslash.)

The Document Online

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You can find this manual online in Portable Document Format (PDF) and HTML formats at the following web site:

http://docs.iplanet.com/docs/manuals/

How to Use the Online Help

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When using BuyerXpert/SellerXpert, you can click Help in any window to open a page that explains the fields and components of that window. You can then navigate to other parts of Help using the Help table of contents and index.

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Note	To view the full Help table of contents listing, you may need to make your browser window larger.

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Because Help is viewed in a browser window, you can use the naviagational tools of the browser as well as the navigational tools within Help. For example, you can use browser commands to print, find information, and copy and paste.

Related Documentation

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The BuyerXpert/SellerXpert documentation set includes:

• Release Notes—Contains important information on the current release of BuyerXpert/SellerXpert. Read this document before working with the new BuyerXpert/SellerXpert release.

• Concepts—Describes the over-all functionality of the product. Read this document if you are unfamiliar with BuyerXpert/SellerXpert.

• Installation Guide—Provides instructions for installing the SellerXpert product and its enabling software.

• Administrator's Guide—Provides reference information and instructions on administering a fully-installed BuyerXpert/SellerXpert system.

• Admin interface Help—Provides guidelines and instructions for using the graphical administrative interface to administer SellerXpert.

• User interface Help—Provides guidelines and instructions for performing the procurement tasks of SellerXpert.

• Catalog interface Help—Provides guidelines and instructions for managing catalogs.

The following documentation contains additional information relevant to using this BuyerXpert/SellerXpert document:

• Actuate documentation

• ECXpert Administration Guide

• ECXpert Operations Reference Manual

• iPlanet Market Maker Catalog Import Guide

Documentation for all iPlanet products can be found at the following web site:

http://docs.iplanet.com/docs/manuals/

Product Support

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If you have problems with your system, contact iPlanet customer support using one of the following mechanisms:

• iPlanet online support web site at:

  http://www.iplanet.com/support/online/

  From this location, the CaseTracker and CaseView tools are available for logging problems.

• The telephone dispatch number associated with your maintenance contract

So that the technical support staff can best assist you in resolving problems, please have the following information available when you contact support:

• Description of the problem, including the situation where the problem occurs and its impact on your operation

• Machine type, operating system version, and product version, including any patches and other software that might be affecting the problem

• Detailed steps on the methods you have used to reproduce the problem

• Any error logs or core dumps