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About This Document
The iPlanet BuyerXpert 4.5 Administrator's Guide provides information on how to administer a fully-installed iPlanet BuyerXpert system.
This preface contains the following sections:
Audience
Audience
The audience for this guide is the iPlanet BuyerXpert administrator as well as personnel performing administrative tasks, including professional services and support personnel.
A iPlanet BuyerXpert administrator should have experience in working with and administering the following:
Multi-hosted systems
Web servers, directory servers, and application servers
What's in This Document
Table 1 summarizes what each chapter covers.
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 iPlanet BuyerXpert administrator performs
Chapter 1 "Overview of iPlanet BuyerXpert Administration"
Access and security administration
Chapter 2 "Configuring Access"
Descriptions of the iPlanet BuyerXpert resources
Chapter 3 "About iPlanet BuyerXpert Resources"
Guidelines for setting up iPlanet BuyerXpert resources
Chapter 4 "Setting Up Resources"
Information and guidelines on setting up business rules
Chapter 5 "Setting Up Business Rules"
Seller catalogs administration
Chapter 6 "Administering Catalogs"
Information and guidelines on using the data Import utility
Chapter 7 "Importing/Exporting Data"
Functions of Requisition Archival/Restore, and guidelines for setting up, configuring and using the requisiton archival feature
Chapter 8 "Requisition Archival/Restore"
Timecard administration
Chapter 9 "Administering Timecards"
Information on administering reports, including instructions for creating new reports
Chapter 10 "Reports"
Guidelines for administering iPlanet BuyerXpert configuration files
Chapter 11 "Configuration Files"
Guidelines and instructions for customizing some of the iPlanet BuyerXpert functions
Chapter 12 "Customizing"
Worksheets for gathering information to set up iPlanet BuyerXpert
Appendix A "Worksheets"
Information on privilege levels for iPlanet BuyerXpert resources
Appendix B "Resource Privileges"
iPlanet BuyerXpert-to-LDAP equivalency information
Appendix C "iPlanet BuyerXpert Mapping to LDAP"
Examples of BuyerXpert invoice matching files.
Appendix D "Example Invoice Matching Files"
iPlanet BuyerXpert terminology
"Glossary"
Documentation Conventions
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
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
When using iPlanet BuyerXpert, 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.
Note To view the full Help table of contents listing, you may need to make your browser window larger.
Because Help is viewed in a browser window, you can use the navigational 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
Documentation for all iPlanet products can be found at the following web site:
http://docs.iplanet.com/docs/manuals/
The iPlanet BuyerXpert documentation set includes:
Release Notes—Contains important information on the current release of iPlanet BuyerXpert. Read this document before working with the new iPlanet BuyerXpert release.
Concepts—Describes the over-all functionality of the product. Read this document if you are unfamiliar with iPlanet BuyerXpert.
Installation Guide— Provides instructions for installing the product and its enabling software. There are separate installation documents for BuyerXpert.
Administrator's Guide—Provides reference information and instructions on administering a fully-installed iPlanet BuyerXpert system.
Admin interface Help—Provides guidelines and instructions for using the graphical administrative interface.
User interface Help—Provides guidelines and instructions for performing the procurement tasks.
Catalog interface Help—Provides guidelines and instructions for managing catalogs. The following documentation contains additional information relevant to using this iPlanet BuyerXpert document:
Product Support
How to Report Problems
If you have problems with iPlanet BuyerXpert, contact iPlanet customer support using one of the following mechanisms:
iPlanet online support web site at:
http://www.iplanet.com/support/support_services_10_0.html
From this location, the Online Support Center is 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
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