Enabling Workspaces in the HCL Commerce development environment
The development environment is not meant to be an authoring environment. Support is provided in the environment for customization purposes only. For example, to test changes to the content management functionality. The ability to propagate changes is not available. If you want to change the content management workspaces, you cannot publish the changes out to another database.
Before you begin
- Change history is enabled in your development environment. Complete the
following steps to enable it:
- Go to the WCDE_installdir/workspace/WC/xml/config/wc-server.xml.
- Open wc-server.xml and find
<WorkspaceChangeHistoryEnabled enable="false"/>
. - Edit the settings to the following values:
<WorkspaceChangeHistoryEnabled enable="true"/>
. - Save and close the file.
- Restart the server.
- Be sure you have a staging database loaded. For more information see, Loading the HCL Commerce Developer database schema.
Procedure
- Exit the development environment.
-
Issue the following command:
WCDE_installdir/bin/enableContentManagement.bat number_of_workspaces addWorkspace
Where:- number_of_workspaces
- Use the number_of_workspaces parameter if you are enabling workspaces in
the HCL Commerce development environment for the first time.
Enter the maximum number of workspaces you want on the authoring environment. Ensure that the number of workspaces that are allocated is sufficient to handle the number of concurrent workspace activities that might occur.
The maximum number of workspaces is the maximum number of simultaneous activities that require data isolation. Multiple stores that are managed by the same organization can share a workspace. For instance, to work on two future events simultaneously and provide regular updates and a data-isolated area in which to complete emergency fixes, you need four workspaces per organization.
The maximum number of workspaces specifies the number of database schemas that are allocated for workspaces. The number of allocated database schemas remains fixed. If a Workspace Manager creates more workspaces than the number of workspace database schemas available, task groups in workspaces without an available database schema cannot be activated until another workspace is completed or canceled.
For more information, see Workspaces data model.
- addWorkspace
- Use the addWorkspace parameter if workspaces is already enabled in the HCL Commerce development environment.
If you encounter errors when you run the utility, review the enableContentManagement.log file for more detailed troubleshooting information. This file can be located within the following directory:- WCDE_installdir\logs\
-
Enable the HCL Commerce search index.
Run the setupSearchIndex utility with the following workspace-specific parameters specified:
- dbauser
- dbauserpwd
- createAll
- Start the test server.
-
Enable the
WorkspaceTaskList
component, which is required for workspaces to function. - Optional: Enable email notification in workspaces.
Disabling a Workspace
About this task
There is a JVM
configuration setting, WorkspaceTaskListEnabled
, however this setting does not
control the workspace itself. Setting -DWorkspaceTaskListEnabled=false
does not
disable a workspace. It only inhibits the workspace from being shown in the Management Center.