Management Center: Change access control for a Management Center tool

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Changing access control for a Management Center tool

Overview

By default, certain business roles are authorized to use the Management Center. You can assign other roles to the Management Center tools.

Procedure
Open WebSphere Commerce Developer, switch to the Enterprise Explorer view, and expand...

LOBTools | WebContent | WEB-INF | src | lzx | commerce | shell
Open the ApplicationMenuItems.lzx file.
The wcfApplicationMenuItems class defines all the Management Center menu options. For the menu option (tool) to change, locate its wcfApplicationMenuItem element in class wcfApplicationMenuItems, and update the usage attribute with the role you want. For example, to change the Catalogs tool from role (IBM_CatalogTool) to another role called IBM_CatalogTool2:
<wcfApplicationMenuItem
        id="catalogManagement"
        width="${parent.width}"
        ...
        usage="IBM_CatalogTool2"
        actionName="viewCommandOnSelect();" />
Map the usage you defined above to the access control for business users on the WebSphere Commerce Server.
To do this, extend the appropriate XML file within the WebSphere Commerce Server.

To produce an updated...

workspace_dir\LOBTools\WebContent\ManagementCenter.swf

right-click LOBTools Project; then click...

Build OpenLaszlo Project

Test the changes by viewing them in the Management Center...

https://hostname:8000/lobtools

Deploy your changes to the production environment.
Related concepts

Management Center shell
Management Center user interface

Related tasks

Customize the Management Center shell

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