If you want to use the Late Staged Deployment workflow, you need to implement the editCommerceAssetsLateModel workflow. This workflow provides all of the same functionality as the Manage Commerce Assets workflow with additional task outcomes, such as Revert Assets on All Targets available to the Author task. In order to implement this workflow, you modify it and add it to your configuration directory so ATG Merchandising uses editCommerceAssetsLateModel instead of the Manage Commerce Assets workflow.
For an explanation of the task outcomes available to Late Staged workflow, see the Guidelines for Customizing ATG Content Administration section in the Adapting Workflows to Content Administration Projects chapter of the ATG Content Administration Programming Guide.
To implement the editCommerceAssetsLateModel workflow:
Close any open ATG Merchandising projects, then shutdown ATG Merchandising.
Open the workflows JAR file that you downloaded.
Find
editCommerceAssetsLateModel.wdlaltand extract it to your local configuration directory, which is<Atg2007.3dir>/home/localconfigby default.Once the file has been extracted, it will be appear in:
<Atg2007.3dir>/home/localconfig/atg/registry/data/epubworkflows
/CommerceRename
editCommerceAssetsLateModel.wdlalttoeditCommerceAssets.wdl.Open the file, and replace all mentions of
editCommerceAssetsLateModel.wdlaltwitheditCommerceAssets.wdl.Save your changes.
For instructions on designating a target site, see the Defining Targets in DeploymentElements section of the Setting Up Workflows for ATG Content Administration section in the ATG Content Administration Programming Guide.
Restart ATG Merchandising.
When you work in the ATG Business Control Center, you won’t notice any differences initially because the new workflow uses the same display name, Manage Commerce Assets, as the old workflow. In the projects you create with it, however, you’ll see the Author task provides the task outcome Revert Assets on All Targets mentioned above.
