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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 sales catalog versions
The Category Manager can manage versions of sales catalogs.
Restoring a version of a sales catalog
You can restore a version of a sales catalog. For example, before making changes to a sales catalog, you can create a version to include the latest changes to the sales catalog and then restore the created version at a later date.

Introduced in Feature Pack 2

Restoring a version of a sales catalog

You can restore a version of a sales catalog. For example, before making changes to a sales catalog, you can create a version to include the latest changes to the sales catalog and then restore the created version at a later date.

Before you begin

Create a version that includes the latest changes. See Creating versions of a sales catalog for steps on how to create sales catalog versions.
Preview the sales catalog version you want to restore.

Procedure

Open the sales catalog version 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 the versions list, and select Restore Version.
Click Yes.

Results

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

Screen capture of sales catalog versions highlighting the check mark.

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