After Merchandising has been installed successfully, you must complete the following tasks to make the application usable for commerce site development:
Finish setting up the environment so that the Merchandising software can run. This includes assembling and deploying the application, publishing, and production servers. See Assembling a Merchandising Application.
Install the ACC, if it is required.
Start the Business Control Center.
Configure a working Merchandising development environment.
You can use the Configuration and Installation Manager (CIM) to guide you through the following tasks:
Specify the application server (that is already installed).
Configure the database connections and create the database tables for ATG Content Administration.
Important: On a production database, you must use the CIM option to drop the existing tables before you recreate them.
Create Merchandising tables and import required content.
Configure, assemble, and deploy instances of the production and asset manager servers. (On CIM, the asset manager server is called the publishing server.)
Using CIM ensures that you complete the required steps, in the correct order. CIM often provides the preferred selections as default values. The Commerce Reference Store Installation and Configuration Guide contains step-by-step instructions for starting and using CIM for these tasks.
If you do not use CIM, you must complete the same tasks using other means. The basic reference for these tasks is the Platform Installation and Configuration Guide. The following documents may also be helpful:
For instructions to configure the database connections and import required data to the selected data sources, see Configuring Database Tables in this manual. For more database configuration information, see the Content Administration Programming Guide and the Repository Guide.
For instructions to assemble and deploy the EAR files for the production and publishing servers, see:
Assembling a Merchandising Application in this manual
The chapter Developing and Assembling Nucleus-based Applications in the Platform Programming Guide
