Establishing the ATG Content Administration Environment Rel 10

This course teaches students how to establish a Content Administration server for an application, set up versioned SQL repositories, and manage repository and file-based assets. You will learn how to create and customize ATG Content Administration, where content providers and managers can manage application and web site assets. Topics include editing workflows, importing file and repository assets, and configuring preview servers. You will also learn how to deploy new or changed assets to the staging and production environments.

This course uses the ATG Commerce Reference Store as a basis for demos and labs.

Learn To:

• Version file assets
• Edit workflows
• Configure deployment to target environments
• Configure preview servers
• Establish the Content Administration environment
• Version repositories

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Audience

• Developer
• Technical Consultant
• System Administrator

Course Topics Introduction

• Overview of ATG Content Administration (CA)
• Content Administration architecture
• Key concepts: Project, Workflow, Check-in, Deployment

Setting Up a Basic Content Administration Server

• Configuring meta-data repositories
• Configuring application modules on a CA Server
• Setting CA security access
• Configuring ATG Merchandising

Configuring Versioned Repositories

• Modifying non-versioned repositories
• Configuring versioned repository components
• Version manager service
• Creating versioned tables
• Exporting data from non-versioned repositories
• Importing data to versioned repositories
• Viewing repository assets

Initializing the Target Environments

• Configuring the deployment topology
• Accessing the deployment administration
• Creating a target site
• Adding agents to as target si
• Initializing target sites

Creating and Editing Workflows

• Asset lifecycle
• Default workflow
• Editing workflows
• Programmatically importing and deploying assets

Managing File Assets

• File assets
• Versioned file assets architecture
• Importing existing files using the repository loader
• Managing non-ATG file assets
• Managing ATG Personalization file assets

Managing Deployment

• How deployment works
• Deployment modes
• Configuring repositories for deployment
• Deploying file as
• Managing deployment in the Business Control Center (BCC)
• Deployment troubleshooting

Viewing Changes Before Production Deployment

• Staging deployment
• One-off deployment targets
• Preview server

Appendix A: Creating a Custom VFS Appendix B: Customizing ATG Content Administration UI Appendix C: Simple String Edit JSP
Course Objectives

• Manage scenarios, targeters, slots, content groups, profile groups, and file assets through ATG Content Administration
• Configure a preview server
• Deploy new and changed assets to the staging and production environments
• Install and set up a Content Administration server
• Install and set up ATG Merchandising for managing Commerce assets
• Convert existing ATG repositories to versioned repositories