Management Center user interface
The Management Center user
interface provides a usable, intuitive, and efficient way to complete your business
tasks.
- 1 Management Center Tools menu
- Use this menu to open the following Management Center tools:
- Catalogs, Promotions, Marketing, Assets, Installments, Store Management, Catalog Filter and Pricing, Workspace Management, and Commerce Composer.
You can also open the Preferences dialog and access the Getting Started from here.
For more information, see Changing your preferences
- 2 Tool tabs
- Each Management Center tool opens in a separate
tab. If you have all tools open, you would see the following tabs:
- Catalogs, Promotions, Marketing, Assets, Installments, Store Management, Catalog Filter and Pricing, Workspace Management, Page Layout, and Commerce Composer.
- 3 Banner
- The banner is the top area or header of the user interface, and identifies the Management Center user, the log out link, and the branding logo. This area also displays the names of the task and workspace when you are working on a task or content.
- 4 Store list
- Switch to another store by selecting the down arrow next to your current store name. This list also contains a search option, which you can use to find a store.
- 5 Find area
- Search for objects by typing a keyword and selecting a search
object type from a list. You can also select the advanced search option
to refine your search.
For more information, see Finding objects in Management Center.
- 6 Menu bar
- The Management Center includes
four menus within the menu bar: File, Edit, View, and Help. All actions
supported by the Management Center are
within the menu bar.
For more information, see Getting help.
- 7 Toolbar
- Click a button on the toolbar to quickly perform a task. The toolbar actions are a subset of the most common tasks you can perform using the Management Center.
- 8 Column header
- Click a column header in any table to sort by that column. Clicking once will sort in ascending order (from A to Z, or 1 to 1000). Clicking once again will sort in descending order.
- 9 Explorer filter
- Within the Catalogs tool, you can filter the explorer view to display your
top-level object.
For more information, see Using the explorer view.
- 10 Explorer view
- The explorer view allows you to navigate the objects with which you want to work. The entire
frame is the explorer view. You can expand and collapse the nodes in the explorer tree to view and
work with objects. For example, you can expand a catalog until you reach the catalog SKU level. The
explorer view always includes the Search Results node (to allow you to return
to a list of results at any time) and Active Work node (to show the objects
you currently have open). To toggle the explorer view on or off click .
For more information, about how to use the explorer view see Using the explorer view.
- 11 Main work area
- The Management Center main work area is controlled by what you have selected in the explorer view and is displayed in the middle (largest) area of the user interface. The main work area can display information in three views: list view, properties view, or calendar view. You can also split the main work area (horizontally or vertically) so that you can see two views at once.
- 12 Status bar
- 13 Utilities view
- The utilities view allows you to locate and use objects
that you want to reference or use with your current object, without navigating away from the current
view. For example, while editing a product, you want to include a reference to another product as a
cross-sell item. Use the utilities view to search for merchandising association items, and then drag
an item from the utilities view to the merchandising association tab of the source product. The
utilities view includes three functions: search (to find objects by a system search), browse (to
find objects by looking within a directory structure or hierarchy), and clipboard (a container to
hold objects for later use). To toggle the utilities view on or off click .
For more information, see Using the utilities view.
- 14 List view
- One of the three views displayed in the main work area. A list view lists objects in the form of
a table. You can view the list and select a specific row to see more details. You can also reorder,
hide, show, or resize columns. If information is editable, you can click the cell and edit on the
spot. To make multiple changes throughout a table more efficiently, you can update several cells in
the same column at once with the same value.For more information, see the following topics:
- 15 Properties View
- One of the three views displayed in the main work area. A properties view shows details about an object and is where you can edit the object. The properties view can contain entry fields, check boxes, radio buttons, lists, tables, pull-down sections, and tabs. You access the properties view from either selecting to create a new instance of an object, or by selecting an existing object from a list view.