Important Terminology's In BCC : ATG

Terminology's In BCC:

Assets:

Assets are persistent, publishable objects that are used by one or more ATG applications. ATG Content Administration supports two kinds of assets:

1.A repository asset is created and edited in the ACC or the ATG Business Control Center and is deployed as a repository item.

2.A file asset is created in the ATG Business Control Center or an external application such as Word or Excel and is deployed as a file to the target server.

If a file asset is created in an external application, you can upload the file into ATG Content Administration. Users can edit the item either through the ATG Business Control Center or by downloading the file, changing it and uploading the file again.


Project:

A project is a persistent entity that encompasses additions, changes and deletions to a set of assets. Each project moves independently through a workflow that typically includes these tasks:

1.Author or revise asset content

2.Review content changes

3.Approve the project for deployment

4.Verify deployment

Project objects are defined by the project item-descriptor in the publishing.xml repository definition file, located in:

<ATGdir>/Publishing/base/config/atg/epub


Project Workflow:

Project Workflows define and control the user tasks that make up a project and modify its state. Project workflows also define actions that are triggered by state changes, such as workspace check-in, email notification, and tagging of versions for deployment


Process:

A process is the parent object of a Project Workflow.

Process objects are defined by the process item-descriptor in the publishing.xml repository definition file.


Versioning:

Content Administration maintains versions of all assets, to ensure that the latest changes are deployed to target sites, and to coordinate multi-user access to the same asset.


Task:

A task is a step in a workflow, such as Author, Review, or Deploy


Deployment:

ATG Content Administration defines a deployment model that incorporates server clusters for development, staging, and production. You can modify the workflow that is provided with ATG Content Administration so its deployment process suits your specific requirements. For example, you can deploy to several servers at the same time; or you can define staged deployments in a staging/production workflow, which lets you review assets on a staging server before deploying them to production and checking them in.