User Manual/Administration Interface/Working with sites

What's a "site"
Arcavias is capable of handling multiple shops by one installation and each shop is called a "site" in Arcavias' terminology. The basic version of Arcavias provides you a single site called "Default" after installation which should be the base of your first shop. This shop instance will contain all products with all associated data you are going to set up, the configuration of the delivery and payment as well as the orders that will be created by your customers.

Adding more sites
If you want to set up more shops, you are able to create an unlimited number of top-level shop instances which are independent from each other using the "Locale site" tab. Please note that the required default data like types have to be added as well. Up to now the easiest way is to rename the default site and run the setup/update script. This will create a new default site with all required data.

Furthermore, the we also offer an extension which enables you to add sub-shops that inherit products, categories, pictures, texts, etc. from a parent instance and you can even add more sites to these sub-shops without any restrictions in depth. This is perfect for market places or resellers.

Change sites in administration interface


For switching between the different available sites, the administration interface contains a site selector in the upper right corner. Depending on the selected site, you will see the data associated to this site as well as the data inherited from the parent sites if you've installed the Enterprise extension.



How does the site selector work?


After installation, there's usually only the "Default" site available but if the setup also added the unit test data, the drop-down will contain a second entry for this site containing the test records.

By default, up to 20 different sites will be shown in the selector before you have to use the controls on the bottom of the selector to switch to the next page listing. Sites that are currently not active (whose status is "disabled") are displayed in gray and struck through.



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