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The information contained in this section applies to IBM WebSphere Commerce Version 7.0.0.9 and Feautre Pack 8. The documentation also applies to all subsequent releases and modifications until otherwise indicated in new editions.
Administering
Overview of administering a WebSphere Commerce site
In WebSphere Commerce the person who performs administrative tasks is called a Site Administrator. The Site Administrator installs, configures, and maintains WebSphere Commerce and the associated software and hardware. The administrator responds to system warnings, alerts, and errors, and diagnoses and resolves system problems. Typically, this person controls access and authorization (creating and assigning members to the appropriate role), manages the Web site, monitors performance, and manages load balancing tasks. The Site Administrator might be responsible for establishing and maintaining several server configurations for different stages of development such as testing, staging, and production. The Site Administrator also handles critical system backups and resolves performance problems.
Organization Administration Console
The Organization Administration Console enables administrators to manage organizations, business users and member groups. Access Control policies can also be managed and approval requests can be processed.
Organizations
An organizational entity is a type of member in WebSphere Commerce. An organizational entity is classified into one of three types: an organization, an organization unit, or an authorization domain. For site administrators, one of your first tasks after installing and configuring WebSphere Commerce is setting up and managing access to your e-commerce site. This process involves creating organizations that participate at your site, and defining users that are members of those organizations. After an instance is created, you can publish a starter store that defines the organization structure. Sometimes, organizations joining your site might be buyer organizations. In other cases, you might have customers registering at your site who are engaged in a business-to-consumer relationship with your business. Defining the organizational structure of site is an important step in managing the types of access that members have to your system.
Changing organizations
Use the Organization Administration Console to change the details of an organization, such as the name, description, business category, organization type, address, or contact information.
Selecting roles for an organization
Use the Organization Administration Console to select user roles for an organization.

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Selecting roles for an organization

Use the Organization Administration Console to select user roles for an organization.

Procedure

Open the Organization Administration Console.
Click Access Management > Find Organizations.
Type in the name of the organization that you want to work with and click Find.
Select the check box next to the organization that you want to work with and click Roles. The Select Roles dialog opens.
Note:
- Site Administrator - You can select roles for any organization.
- Seller Administrator - You can select roles for the sub-organizations of the organizations where you directly play your administrator role. You can also select roles for organization that are part of the registered customer group.
- Buyer Administrator, Channel Manager - You can only select roles for the sub-organizations of the organizations where you directly play your administrator role.
Select roles for the organization as follows:
- To assign a single role, from the Available roles list, select the role that you want to assign to the organization and click Add. The role moves from the Available roles list to the Selected roles list. Repeat this step for all the roles you want to assign to the organization.
- To assign all roles in the Available roles list, click Add All. The roles move from the Available roles list to the Selected roles list.
- If you make an error or want to remove a role, from the Selected roles list, select the role that you want to remove and click Remove. The role moves from the Selected roles list to the Available roles list. Repeat this step for all the roles you want to remove from the organization.
- To remove all roles in the Selected roles list, click Remove All. The roles move from the Selected roles list to the Available roles list.
Click OK to define user roles for the organization.