Typically, the seller organization is the organization
that owns one or more stores on a WebSphere Commerce site. The seller
organization can also have sub-organizations, or divisions, which,
in turn, can have one or more stores. For example, if you have a store
that sells fashion merchandise, it might have a women's division and
a men's division, each with separate, online stores.
Procedure
- Create a Seller an organization. When you create a new
organization, you will create a profile for that organization, which
includes the organization's name, description, address, and contact
person, as well as the organization type.
- Open the
Organization Administration Console using a Seller Administrator
ID.
- Click . Click Find.
A list of organizations and organizational units for the site displays.
- From the list, click New to
add a new organization or organizational unit to the site.
Note: You
cannot create an organization under an organization that is of type
"authorization domain".
- The New Organization dialog launches, displaying the
Details page first. Provide appropriate information for the fields
and click OK to save.
- Once you have created an organization or organizational
unit, you can select approval types and roles for the organization
or organizational unit, as follows:
- To select approval types for the organization or organizational
unit:
- From the list of organizations for the site, select the check
box next to the organization that you want to work with and click
Approvals. The Select Approve
Types dialog opens.
- From the Approval types list, select the
types of approval required for the organization, and click Add.
- Click OK to define the approval types
for the organization.
- To select roles for the organization or organizational unit:
- From the list of organizations for the site, select the check
box next to the organization that you want to work with and click
Roles. The Select Roles dialog
opens.
- 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.
Note: It is not recommended that you delete an organization.
Deleting an organization will invalidate all things owned by that
organization. For more information about what will be deleted, see
the
MEMBER database table.
- Optional: Select
approval types for the organization. Define which tasks within
the Seller organization require approval, such as order processing
or user registration.
- Assign roles to the organization.
An organization can only take on roles that have been assigned to
its parent organization. Since Root Organization is an ancestor of
all other organizations, it must be assigned all possible roles. Since
you are creating a seller organization, typical roles that you might
assign include Seller Administrator, Seller, and so on.
- Create
users. Like organizations, you will create a profile for each
user that includes the user's name, contact information, and the role
assigned to that user. When assigning roles, you will select them
from the list of roles you assigned to the organization in the previous
step.
- Assign
roles to users.
- Optional: Create
member groups.
- Optional: Assign
users to member groups.
