Starter site creation in Commerce Server 2009
ravikanth | March 13, 2009Commerce server 2009 has provided a utility named “SharePointCommerceServicesConfiguration”, by which we can easily create a MOSS starter site within minutes. You can find this utility in “"{drive name}:\Program Files\Microsoft Commerce Server 2007\Microsoft Commerce Server 2009\Site” folder. In the observe the folder properly, you will find two pub files – one is with schema (MicrosoftCommerceDefaultSiteNoData) and another is schema with sample data (MicrosoftCommerceDefaultSiteWithSampleData). This tool is just creating sites in commerce server and MOSS (sites in CS is different from MOSS).
Let’s see how to create a starter site in CS2009.
- Double click on SharePointCommerceServicesConfiguration.exe file.
- Before it start creating the site, the tool checks whether all services are available or not. If they are not, then it will prompt the user to enable that service. If all services are running (as shown below), click next button.
- In the next step, the tool will ask give us two options. Import only web parts on existing moss site or Create new SharePoint site with web parts.
- In the third screen, we have to provide web application details. Tool asks following things from the user.
- Web application: if possible, you can create new application or provide existing application. As part of web application creation, you have to provide site description, port number, application pool, extended IIS website details etc.
- Site collection details like title, description, site administrator.
- Commerce server site details like site name, site description. Apart from this, we can specify here whether to create commerce site without data or with data.
- Specify the database name. By clicking on “Advance” we can change the database location. Once done, click on next button.
- Now the real work starts. The tool creates commerce server sites from the pub file, create SharePoint site with web parts and finally it will show the completion screen.
That’s all, your site is ready and you can start playing with it. If you open the site, you may get a warning –“Web part can not be displayed as channel name is not specified”. Click below blog entry to address this issue.
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