Oracle ATG Web Commerce’s multisite feature allows you to build and launch new sites quickly, and to manage brands, country stores, and other differentiators efficiently across multiple channels. This section describes some of the aspects of multisite that are important in a Commerce application.
Site Context—Within a user’s session, the site context identifies what catalogs, products, or SKUs are available to the user, which price list to apply, and which shopping cart to use.
Site Membership—Defines the sites to which a catalog and its items belong. These items can include catalogs, categories, products, SKUs, and catalog folders. Catalogs and other items can belong to more than one site.
SiteIdForItemDroplet
andSiteLinkDroplet
—These platform droplets (see the ATG Page Developer's Guide) are useful for Commerce developers. Items that appear in multiple catalogs can be displayed together; when a customer selects one, you can specify which site’s version of the details to use.Shopping Cart—The cart tracks the site on which it was created (when the customer adds the first item), on which each item was added, and on which the most recent activity occurred.
Scheduled Orders—These orders include site information when creating and pricing orders.
Gift, Purchase, and Wish Lists—All of these track the site on which they were created and on which each item was added.
Shared Carts and Wish Lists—You can configure shopping carts and gift/purchase/wish lists to be shared among sites.
Searching—Search form handlers are site-aware and can be constrained by site.
Reports—All Commerce reports include site information. See the ATG Reports Guide.
Information on the multisite uses of Commerce features can be found throughout this guide, where applicable. See the ATG Multisite Administration Guide for general information on implementing multisite in Oracle ATG Web Commerce applications.