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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.
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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.
Creating versions of a sales catalog
You can create versions of sales catalogs. For example, before making any changes to a sales catalog description for an event, you might want to create a version. After the event is over, you can restore the created version.

Introduced in Feature Pack 2

Creating versions of a sales catalog

You can create versions of sales catalogs. For example, before making any changes to a sales catalog description for an event, you might want to create a version. After the event is over, you can restore the created version.When you create a version, the version is based on the latest changes in the sales catalog. If you modify the sales catalog, the version remains unchanged.

Before you begin

Review the following page for a list of which parts of the sales catalog are saved when a version is created: Working with sales catalog versions.

Procedure

Open the Catalogs tool.
From the explorer filter, select Sales Catalog Categories.
On the explorer tree, right-click the sales catalog you want to create a version for, then click Open. In the Versions tab, click the Create Version icon .
Alternately, you can select the sales catalog you want to create versions for, then click Edit > Create Version
In the Create Version window, enter the version name and description of the version; click Create.

What to do next

To view the list of versions available for the sales catalog, see Listing sales catalog versions.