Management Center tutorials
The following tutorials demonstrate how to customize the Management Center.
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Tutorial: Adding search conditions for advanced search in the Catalogs tool |
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In this tutorial, you add search conditions to the Advanced Search dialog in the Catalogs tool. You extend the advanced search with two new conditions: warranty type and warranty term. |
Tutorial: Adding a validation rule in the Marketing tool |
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In this tutorial you will be adding a new validation rule for the start and end dates of Web Activities in the Marketing tool. A validation rule will be created to ensure that the activity is active for at least 10 days. If the user enters a start date and an end date that are not at least 10 days apart, a validation error is displayed. The new rule is implemented on both the Management Center client and the WebSphere Commerce Server side. This ensures that the dates are validated, whether they are created in the activity by way of the Management Center or any client that interfaces with the server. |
Tutorial: Extending simple search in the Catalogs tool |
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In this tutorial, you extend simple search in the Catalogs tool in the Management Center. Simple search is a function that is performed in the search widget of the Management Center. It provides the capability to search on a single property, such as the price or size of a product. The Catalogs tool provides several simple searches such as search catalog entries by name and search category by name. In this tutorial, you extend simple search on catalog entries by warranty term, warranty type, and care instruction. In the storefront, customers could search for more properties of your products. |
Tutorial: Adding support for multiple values of Attribute Dictionary attributes |
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In this tutorial, you learn how to customize the attribute dictionary feature to add support for multiple values for attribute dictionary attributes. |
Tutorial: Adding dynamic text fields to the Store Management tool |
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This tutorial demonstrates how to add dynamic text fields in the Store Management tool and display this new content in the storefront. To complete this tutorial you modify definition files to use UserData element support, you add a profile field to the Store Management tool and then add the content to your storefront. The Store Management tool provides support for the UserData element in the logical layer object noun and physical layer database. This support acts as an extension point for adding new customizable data fields to a store profile. |
Tutorial: Adding a Store Feature to the Store Management tool |
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In this tutorial, you learn how to customize the Store Management tool to add a link in your storefront to display store contact information. |
Tutorial: Creating a promotion type |
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In this tutorial, you can customize the Management Center Promotions tool to add support for a new promotion type. A promotion uses a specific purchase condition and reward. Use this tutorial to create a promotion type by customizing an existing promotion type. You can add new promotions to the Management Center Promotions tool, if the default promotion types do not meet your business needs. |
Tutorial: Adding languages to WebSphere Commerce | After completing this tutorial, you should be familiar with the following concepts:
After completing this tutorial, you should be able to complete the
following tasks:
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In this tutorial, you are adding support for additional languages to WebSphere Commerce. WebSphere Commerce is available in 13 languages by default, and you can add more languages to WebSphere Commerce stores and WebSphere Commerce tools. |
Tutorial: Extending the Management Center Catalog Upload feature to upload custom data |
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This tutorial demonstrates how to customize the Management Center Catalogs tool Catalog Upload feature to load data into custom tables. |
Tutorial: Creating folders in the Marketing tool | After completing the tutorial, you should be
familiar with the following concepts:
After completing this tutorial, you
should be able to perform the following tasks
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this tutorial, you learn how to add support for folders in the Marketing
tool. The marketing folders that you create in this tutorial are specific
for grouping e-Marketing Spots to improve organizing and managing
these e-Marketing Spots. To create your e-Marketing Spot folders, you extend the Marketing tool to include folder support for e-Marketing Spots. With the folder support enabled, a Marketing Manager can group e-Marketing Spots to categorize and manage the e-Marketing Spots within the Marketing tool. |
Creating and customizing a new tool in the Management Center
The Management Center tool scenario is a series of tutorials that simulate the scope of a complete customization project. Over the course of the scenario, you add a tool to the Management Center, add display logic for the tool to the storefront, and create a WebSphere Commerce service module. The service module handles the business logic and persistence of the tool. The scenario uses the example of adding a tool that manages recipes for meals.
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Tutorial: Adding a tool to the Management Center |
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In this tutorial, you are adding a tool to the Management Center. You are adding the Recipes tool. You learn to use the Management Center programming framework to create a presentation layer with OpenLaszlo and JavaServer Pages (JSP) files. |
Tutorial: Supporting extended sites in a Management Center tool for a custom object |
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In this tutorial you will be adding support for extended sites in the Recipe tutorial. The objective of this tutorial is to support extended site features for the Recipes tool that you created in Adding a tool to the Management Center. |
Tutorial: Extending a Management Center tool to support content versioning for a custom object |
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In this tutorial, you learn how to add support for the content versioning feature in a new Management Center tool. |
Tutorial: Using the getData JTSL tag to display data from a custom service |
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In this tutorial you will be modifying the storefront to display a new Recipes section. |
Tutorial: Extending a Management Center tool to support workspaces for a custom object |
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In this tutorial, you add workspace support to the Recipes tool by enabling workspace support for the Project service module. This process prevents the same object from being edited by users in different task groups within the same workspace. Workspaces in the Management Center use BOD service modules. You can customize which aspects of the physical and logical layers of a BOD service module are under change control. This change control data is passed back to the presentation layer where you can show it in the Management Center workspaces. |
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