Introduction to Your Content Environment
Overview of Oracle Commerce Content Administration (CA)
Oracle Commerce tools
Content Administration architecture
Key concepts: Project, Workflow, Check-in, Deployment
Versioned Assets
Setting up and registering a versioned repository
Creating a versioned application module
Importing data to versioned repositories
Viewing repository assets
Repositories and Deployment
Deployment Topology: Overview
Setting Up the Deployment Topology
Configuring Repository Destination Components
Managing File-Based Repositories
File assets
Versioned file system architecture
Importing existing files using the Repository Loader
Viewing file assets
Customizing Merchandising: Repository-Based Changes
Adding and organizing properties in Merchandising
View mappings and tabs
Configuring Multi-Edit Properties
Customizing Merchandising: Navigation Panels
Navigation: Overview
Customizing the Browse Panel
Editing the Find Panel
Customizing Asset Icons
Customizing Merchandising: Custom Property Editors and Tabs
Set up your environment to include custom Flex ActionScript code
Creating custom property editors and tab panels
UI Templates
Creating Custom Promotion Templates
Defining the Template UI
Validating and Translating User Input
Linking User Input to Promotion Properties
Site Templates
User Access
BCC and ACC security
Merchandising access control
Secured repositories
Customizing Workflows
Asset lifecycle
Project interactions
Default workflow
Custom workflows
Workflows and the BCC home page
Programmatic Imports
ProgrammaticImportService and the workflow
Best practices
Importing and exporting promotions
Repository Cache Warming
Configuring Repository Cache Warming
Purging Asset Versions
Purging assets
Safeguards and tips
Creating a Preview Application
Configuring a Preview Server
Configuring Visual Merchandising Hot Spots
Appendix A: Customizing Merchandising Code Examples
Description:
This Oracle Commerce: Customizing the Business Control Center Rel 11.1 training builds on what you learned in the
Oracle Commerce: Platform Fundamentals for Developers 11.1 course. It teaches you how to integrate your custom
repositories into Content Administration (CA) and the BCC, control the appearance of assets in Merchandising, and
accomplish other technical tasks for a powerful and customized experience for your business users.
Learn To:
Version the data managed by the merchandisers and content creators.
Control the display of assets, properties, tabs, and navigation in Merchandising, including your custom repositories.
Create programmatic imports.
Control user access to menus and items in the BCC.
Create custom UI templates.
Benefits to You
Ensure greater data integrity through controlled imports and fine-tuned user access. Optimize the business user
experience by integrating your repository customizations into the Merchandising user interface for a compelling and
easy business user experience. Improve performance by purging unnecessary data.
Create a Customized User Experience
You will learn how to edit the Merchandising user interface to integrate your custom repositories and organize custom
properties in tabs in the asset editor for more efficient asset creation and editing. Through user access control,
determine business user access by functional role, giving the access needed to the correct assets. Enhance the
business user experience with custom promotion templates.
Handle External Data Feeds
Import data from files and feeds to create and update repository assets, controlling the workflow through programmatic imports.
