Typically, the seller organization is the organization that owns one or more stores on a
HCL 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
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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.
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Open the Organization Administration
Console.
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Click . Click Find. A list of organizations and
organizational units for the site displays.
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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".
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The New Organization dialog launches, displaying the Details page first. Provide
appropriate information for the fields and click OK to
save.
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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 Approval
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 field
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.
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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.
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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.
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Assign roles to
users.
- Optional:
Create member
groups.
- Optional:
Assign users to member
groups.
