Prepare IWWCM to create WebSphere Commerce content
To prepare IBM Workplace Web Content Management to create WebSphere Commerce content:
- Create a new Web content library to contain the WebSphere commerce content with the same name as provided in the LIBRARY_NAME.
You can use the default library available in IWWCM.
- Define the publish and expired workflow actions, and define the draft, publish, and expired workflow stages. Ensure the workflow actions are selected as shown:
- draft - No workflow stage action.
- publish - Under Properties > Execute on Entering Stage, click Select Actions and choose the Publish workflow action.
- expired - Under Properties > Execute on Entering Stage, click Select Actions and choose the Expired workflow action.
For more information see, Create a workflow stage
- Define a workflow for WebSphere Commerce content and select the workflow stages defined in the previous step.
Ensure that the workflow stages are in the following order: draft, publish, and expired.
For more information see,
- Create a workflow workflow management in Web Content Management, see
- Manage items in a workflow
- Create a new Web Content Management site and site area to contain your WebSphere Commerce content.
- Update the <Sites> tag or property with the new site name.
The 'Sites' property is found within the Cacher sub-section of the Module Config section of WCMConfigService.properties file. see the
- Define the following global components for the WebSphere Commerce content site:
Global component Component type Description Product Display url text Product display URL value. The default product display URL for WebSphere Commerce is: ProductDisplay? Category Display url text Category display URL value. The default category display URL for WebSphere Commerce is: CategoryDisplay? - Define an authoring template for WebSphere Commerce content.
- Define a presentation template for WebSphere Commerce content.
Related Concepts
IWWCM integration for WebSphere Commerce
Related tasks
Overview: Integrating WebSphere Commerce and IWWCM
Install IWWCM integration for WebSphere Commerce on the WebSphere Commerce system