Projects are a Business Control Center mechanism for managing the tasks and assets involved in creating and deploying Web content for a variety of ATG applications. Each project is associated with an underlying workflow that defines the tasks necessary to complete the project. Typically, a project starts with an authoring task, progresses to an approval phase where the content is reviewed, and ends with deployment to the customer-facing Web site. The tasks involved in a project can be carried out by different people over a period of time.

ATG Outreach campaigns, campaign templates, and imported lists are all instances of projects. When you create a new campaign, template, or imported list, you use the project interface, although you do so transparently -- the Properties and Structure tab for campaigns and templates, for example, works on top of the underlying project. The same is true if you want to edit an incomplete item. However, you do have to access the project interface directly if you want to do any of the following:

This chapter explains how to work with these items in the context of a project. For more general information about projects and the Business Control Center, refer to the ATG Content Administration Guide for Business Users.