When you purchase ATG Merchandising, you need to install it and set it up to use at least two databases: a Content Administration database that holds versioned data and a production database that holds the data on your live site. Additionally, you need to configure several parts of your application. Complete the following administrative tasks:
Install the ATG Merchandising product. See Installing ATG Merchandising.
Set up your Content Administration server. See the Setting Up an ATG Content Administration Server chapter of the ATG Content Administration Programming Guide. Note that when you import assets, in order to associate the addition of assets with a task in a Merchandising project, you need to specify the following as part of the import command:
– workflow /Commerce/editCommerceAssets.wdlSet up your Content Administration database. See Configuring a Purchased Content Administration Database.
Set up your production database. See the Configuring a Production Database chapter of the ATG Commerce Programming Guide.
Run ATG Merchandising. See Running ATG Merchandising.
Set up deployment resources. See Configuring Deployment Resources.
Configure Workflows that will be available to ATG Merchandising projects. See Configuring Workflows.
Create accounts for the internal users who will be using ATG Merchandising. See Setting Up User Accounts and Roles.
Depending on how you’ve implemented
AccessControlServlet, you may need to make some adjustments to it so that it works properly with ATG Merchandising. See Configuring AccessControlServlet.Configure Custom Catalogs, if you are using custom catalogs instead of standard catalogs. See Configuring Custom Catalogs.
If you’d like asset, property, and asset-type level security, implement the resources required of the secured repositories feature. See Working with Secured Repositories.
ATG Merchandising displays price lists to customers using ATG Business Commerce. For instructions on enabling and disabling price lists, see Working with Prices.
Customers who have ATG Merchandising and ATG Search also have the following features:
Dynamic Search and Navigation lets you define facets used to organize products into dynamic groupings. See Designing A Site With Multiple Facets for guidance on how to architect a facet strategy.
Search Merchandising lets you control the display of search results for a grouping of site visitors, using search configurations and search configuration folders. See Structuring the Search Configuration Tree to learn how to design a tree of search configurations and search configuration folders and Administering Search Merchandising for a description of administrative set up tasks.
Configure the ATG Merchandising UI as needed. The tabs, buttons, and properties you see in ATG Merchandising can be visible or hidden from users. See Customizing the ATG Merchandising User Interfacenterface and the Configuring the Asset Manager section of the ATG Business Control Center Administration and Development Guide.
Shutdown ATG Merchandising and re-assemble, redeploy, and restart your application. See Running ATG Merchandising.
