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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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