Internal and External user profiles

ATG maintains separate profile repositories for external and internal users.

• External user profiles represent anyone who visits your externally-facing Web site. For commerce sites, external users are typically customers.The default external user profile repository is /atg/userprofiling/ProfileAdapterRepository, which is defined by the userProfile.xml file located in <ATG9dir>\DPS\config\profile.jar.
• Internal user profiles represent people within your organization who use ATG applications such as the ATG Business Control Center or ATG Service to create and manage site content.Internal profiles are stored in the /atg/userprofiling/InternalProfileRepository, defined by the internalUserProfile.xml file in <ATG9dir>\DPS\InternalUsers\config\config.jar.