3.4.2 Organizations and roles
When the WCS instance is created, the basic organizational structure consists of a root organization and a default organization (Figure 3-1). A user account is created with the role of Site Administrator. This user is a member of the root organization. There are five policy groups:
Guest shopper management policy group
Management and administration policy group
B2B direct policy group
Consumer direct policy group
Common shopping policy group
Figure 3-1 Basic access control
When the ExtendedSites.sar file is published, several new organizations are created as depicted in Figure 3-2. There are three organizations under the Root organization:
Extended Sites Seller organization
Base Contracts Account organization
Extended Sites organization
The Extended Sites organization is the parent of:
Asset Store organization
Extended Sites Hub organization
Also note that four new access control policies are included with Extended Sites. Three of them are subscribed to by the Asset Store organization. These policies manage access to the asset stores that are created. They are owned by the Asset Store organization.
B2B Direct Storefront Asset Store
Consumer Direct Storefront Asset Store
Extended Sites Catalog Asset Store
A fourth store, the Extended Sites Hub, is owned by the Extended Sites Hub organization. This organization subscribes to the Channel Store policy group.
Figure 3-2 Extended Sites access control
A single administrator account is created when the Extended Sites store archive is published (extendedsitesadmin). The parent organization of this account is the Extended Sites Hub organization. extendedsitesadmin has these roles defined:
Extended Sites Hub organization
Channel Manager
Extended Sites Seller organization
Registered Customer
Channel Manager
Seller
Asset Store organization
Category Manager
Operations Manager
Marketing Manager
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