Home
User Guide
The information contained in this section applies to IBM WebSphere Commerce Version 7.0.0.9 and Feautre Pack 8. The documentation also applies to all subsequent releases and modifications until otherwise indicated in new editions.
Operating
IBM Management Center for WebSphere Commerce
The IBM Management Center for WebSphere Commerce, or Management Center, is a suite of tools to support store management, merchandising, and marketing tasks for business users (Sellers, Marketing Managers, Product Managers, Catalog Managers, and others).
Catalogs tool
Use the Catalogs tool in Management Center to manage catalogs, categories, catalog entries, merchandising associations, product attributes, and attachments in your store. The Catalogs tool lets business users create, and manage online catalogs. Catalogs provide a way of organizing the products that you want to sell. You define catalog data in groups of categories and products. Catalog data contains descriptions and pricing information for products and services.
Working with content versioning
Category Managers and Product Managers can manage versions of business objects to: rollback changes, make seasonal changes, or track the history of a business object.
Working with sales catalog versions
The Category Manager can manage versions of sales catalogs.

Introduced in Feature Pack 2

Working with sales catalog versions

The Category Manager can manage versions of sales catalogs.

When you create a sales catalog version, the following parts of the sales catalog are saved in the version repository:

Code
Name
Short description
Long description
Thumbnail (Reference to the image but not the image itself)
Full image (Reference to the image but not the image itself)
Associated assets (References to the assets. For example, if you modify the assets the changes are reflected in the version)

Note: Business objects contained in the sales catalog (categories, catalog entries, attachments) are not part of the sales catalog version.