Before you create a site, you should create site categories. Site categories represents specific site properties, such as site name, descriptions and URLs used within your site. Site Administration has a default site category that can be used as is, or can be used as an example to create new categories. This site category contains a number of default site properties. Other ATG applications require specific site configuration properties and may append additional properties to the default list.
Site categories are identified in the Site Repository using a siteTemplate item, which in turn, references a view mapping. Site categories are defined using site properties, which are displayed in the Site Administration Site Categories screen of the Site Administration Business Control Center and used by site administrators to set up sites. For a road map of site categories, refer to the Creating Site Categories section.
Site categories, which are not versioned repository assets and are not deployed to production environments, must be registered with Site Administration before they become available for assignment. Registering a site category is comprised of setting up the site category’s view mapping information, then using the site category administration interface in the Business Control Center to create site configurations using the siteTemplate item descriptor. For information on registering sites, refer to Identifying Valid Site Types.
