IBM Workplace Web Content Management integration for WebSphere Commerce

By integrating WebSphere Commerce and Web Content Management, you enable business users to manage the entire content creation and deployment process without intervention from technical support. Business users gain most of the features of Web Content Management for use in WebSphere Commerce stores.

The integration enables business users to manage creation, editing, approval and publication of store page content in WebSphere Commerce using Web Content Management.

For information about the features provided by (IWWCM) IBM Workplace Web Content Management, see the Web Content Management features Key features topic in the WebSphere Portal Information Center.

IBM Workplace Web Content Management integration for WebSphere Commerce focuses on associating Web content with product pages in a store. For example, an article about camping can provide links to camping-related products found in the store catalog. IBM Workplace Web Content Management integration for WebSphere Commerce builds upon the workspaces component provided with WebSphere Commerce.

The documentation for IBM Workplace Web Content Management integration for WebSphere Commerce uses terminology from both WebSphere Commerce and IBM Workplace Web Content Management. If you are unfamiliar with IBM Workplace Web Content Management, you should familiarize yourself with Web Content Management by reviewing the Content creation guide Creating Web content in the WebSphere Portal Information Center.

IBM Workplace Web Content Management integration for WebSphere Commerce is provided as-is. Note that :

• IBM Workplace Web Content Management integration for WebSphere Commerce has not been tested and is not supported for accessibility.

• IBM Workplace Web Content Management integration for WebSphere Commerce has not been tested for national language support.

IBM Workplace Web Content Management integration for WebSphere Commerce requires the following software:

• WebSphere Commerce, version 6.0

• WebSphere Portal 5.1.0.4 and the required prerequisites.

  IBM Workplace Web Content Management must be enabled.

• WebSphere Portal 6.0.0.1 and the required prerequisites.

  IBM Workplace Web Content Management must be enabled.

  The following fixes for IBM Workplace Web Content Management are required, and must be applied in the following order:
  

  IBM Workplace Web Content Management required fixes
  1. iFix PK35083
  2. iFix PK35483
  3. iFix PK35485
  4. iFix PK35491
  5. iFix PK35495
  6. iFix PK35618
  7. iFix PK36427
  8. iFix PK36407
  9. iFix PK36445

  You can find the fixes on the Workplace Web Content Management product support site.

You must have this software installed and configured before installing IBM Workplace Web Content Management integration for WebSphere Commerce.

 

Related Concepts

Workspaces

 

Related tasks

Overview: Integrating WebSphere Commerce and IBM Workplace Web Content Management

Overview: Creating WebSphere Commerce content using Web Content Management