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What's new
What's new includes information about new functionality and changes in existing functionality from WebSphere Commerce Version 6.0 to the latest WebSphere Commerce Version 7 feature pack.
New features and functionality
This section describes the new features and functionality available with WebSphere Commerce Version 7.
What's new for business users
Learn about the new features and functionality WebSphere Commerce Version 7 offers business users.
Management Center enhancements (business user tools)
The IBM Management Center for WebSphere Commerce, or Management Center, is the next generation business user tool for managing business tasks for online businesses. Using the Management Center, business users can perform tasks to create, update, and maintain merchandising and marketing assets in stores that use the Deprecated featureconsumer direct, B2B direct, Deprecated featuredemand chain, Deprecated featuresupply chain, and extended sites business models. Each business function can be managed using tools within the Management Center.
Catalogs
The Catalogs tool in WebSphere Commerce Version 7 includes enhancements to the creation and management of sales catalogs and supports additional search criteria in both the simple and advanced search.
Improve store navigation with a default catalog
If your store has more than one catalog, business users can set a default catalog. Setting a default catalog controls which catalog a shopper views when visiting a store without specifying a catalog in the URL.

Feature Pack 5 or later

Improve store navigation with a default catalog

If your store has more than one catalog, business users can set a default catalog. Setting a default catalog controls which catalog a shopper views when visiting a store without specifying a catalog in the URL.

By setting a default catalog, your Category Managers and Product Managers can improve store navigation for shoppers that visit your store. Your Category and Product Managers can set and change the default catalog with the Catalogs tool, and select the default catalog from among all available catalogs.

WebSphere Commerce Enterprise

If you are using an extended site store model, you can:

Set the default catalog at the asset store so that all your extended site stores can inherit a single default catalog.
Set the default catalog at the extended site store to override an asset store default catalog. Overriding the asset store ensures that your extended site stores can have a default catalog specific to that store.

For more information about the default catalog and what you can do with the default catalog functionality, see Default catalog