The Business Control Center is the internal user interface to the Merchandising environment. You use the Business Control Center to create, preview, approve, deploy, and revise site content, and to launch Merchandising and other ATG applications.
Before you log in to the Business Control Center, you must:
Start the appropriate database.
Obtain the appropriate user profile and role requirements. The user profile specifies the user name and password that you must use to log in.
To open the Business Control Center login page:
Open a browser window and enter the following URL address:
http://
hostname
:port
/atg/bccwhere:
host
name
is the name of the server where Merchandising is running andport
is the port that your application server specifies for ATG applications.Note: If Merchandising is on a local machine, you may substitute
localhost
forhostname
.When the Business Control Center opens, enter your username and password.
These fields are case-sensitive. For evaluation purposes, the values are
admin
andadmin
.
See the Introduction chapter of the ATG Business Control Center User's Guide for more information about the following subjects:
User profile and role requirements for login
Instructions to start the ATG products that you want to run with Merchandising
How to start the Business Control Center
The ATG Merchandising Guide for Business Users describes how merchandisers use the Business Control Center. The following documents also contain substantive information about setting up and using the Business Control Center:
ATG Business Control Center User's Guide
ATG Business Control Center Administration and Development Guide