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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.
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 category versions
The Category Manager can create, delete, list, view, and restore versions of categories.
Restoring a version of a category
You can restore a version of a category. For example, before making changes to a category, you might want to create a version to save the latest changes to the category. If you are not satisfied with your changes, you can restore a previous version.

Restoring a version of a category

You can restore a version of a category. For example, before making changes to a category, you might want to create a version to save the latest changes to the category. If you are not satisfied with your changes, you can restore a previous version.

Before you begin

Create a version that includes the latest changes.
Preview the category version you want to restore.

Procedure

Open the category versions list.
To restore a version, select the version in the Available versions table, and click the Restore icon .
Alternately, you can right-click a version in versions list, and select Restore Version.
Click Yes.

Results

The selected version of the category is restored. A check mark in the Base Version column indicates the version that was last restored.
Screen capture of a category versions highlighting the check mark.

Screen capture of a category versions highlighting the check mark.

In the Manage Category tab, you can also find out the version that was last restored in the Object Properties section.