In a multisite environment, you can control a Merchandising user’s access to catalog assets, promotions, and content assets by site, displaying or providing access only to assets that belong to specified registered sites. This enables businesses that manage multiple sites to assign specific users or organizations to each site.
Most assets managed in Merchandising have a SiteIDs property, which specifies at list of sites an asset is associated with. You use the Access Control application in the Business Control Center to assign a user’s site access settings by specifying sites to which the user has full, read-only, or no access. If an asset is associated with at least one site to which the user has read-only access, she will have read-only access to that asset in Merchandising. If an asset is associated with at least one site to which the user has full access, she will have full access to that asset in Merchandising.
Note that if you make changes to site access while there are users working on the sites, the access rights will not be applied until they have logged out and back into the application. For more information about assigning site access to internal users, see Managing User Profiles in the Business Control Center Administration and Development Guide. For more information about assets and site membership, see the Multisite Administration Guide and the Core Commerce Programming Guide.
Important: This is not a true security feature, but a usability enhancement that helps keep a merchandiser’s view of the UI more streamlined by displaying only assets associated with sites that they regularly works with. This feature does not use secured repositories. Users who cannot see an asset in Merchandising because of site access settings but who have access to other Oracle Commerce Platform interfaces, like Content Administration or the ACC, may be able to access and edit the asset there.
Content Assets
In a multisite environment, business users can specify that an article or media content asset applies only to specific sites. By default, an article or media-content asset applies to all sites, that is, its SiteIDs property is null.
Note: Folders and tags do not have SiteIDs properties and so their display in Merchandising is not affected by a user’s site access settings.
Promotions
In a multisite environment, business users can specify that a promotion applies only to items purchased from specific sites. By default, a promotion applies to all sites. For more information about associating promotions with sites, see Creating Promotions in the Merchandising Guide for Business Users.
