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Workspace Administration Tool
Overview
The Workspace Administration Tool is a graphical user interface tool used to manage workspaces and workspace-related activities. It provides a single view across all workspaces and all tasks in the workspaces where managers can see how work is progressing.
Using the Workspace Administration Tool, you can:
- Create and cancel workspaces, task groups, and tasks
- Assign approvers to task groups and content contributors to tasks
- Approve a task group
- Change a task's state to complete
The Workspace Tool is not used for changing the workspace content. Changes to workspace content are made using WebSphere Commerce Accelerator.
See
- Open the Workspace Administration Tool
The Workspace Administration Tool is a browser-based tool.
- Workspaces
A workspace is an access-controlled work area where you can make and preview changes to managed assets, without affecting what is currently running on the site. Working in the context of a workspace is similar to having the own private copy of the managed assets. You can make changes and preview changes without affecting managed assets outside the workspace. Once you are happy with the changes you have made in a workspace, you can commit the changes to the production database, and begin to see the effects on the site.
- Workspaces, task groups, and tasks
A workspace can further be divided into task groups and tasks.
- Workspaces example scenarios
Workspaces can be used in a variety of scenarios.
- Workspace managed assets
Managed assets are WebSphere Commerce components or resources that are enabled for workspaces and allow content to be written to separate workspace database schemas. Workspace Content Contributors can modify managed assets in the context of a workspace.
- Workspaces locking policies
Locking policies in workspaces allow you to control how changes are made and who is able to make the changes. A locking policy determines if managed assets are locked to a workspace, task group, or task, or if they are not locked at all. The locking policy applies to the entire WebSphere Commerce site and is not configurable by store.
- Workspaces object locking
- Workspaces commit and publish options
With workspaces, you have several options for the committing of data to the production-ready data and the publishing of data to the production server: quick publish, scheduled commit, regular commit, and global publish.
- Workspaces best practices
When you use workspace, you should have strong business processes in place to prevent the situations outlined in Workspaces limitations and restrictions. These apply to workspaces managed in both the WebSphere Commerce Accelerator, and the Management Center.
- Known limitations in workspaces
When using workspaces, be aware of known limitations.
- Workspaces data model
Content management is achieved through the use of workspaces. Each workspace in WebSphere Commerce v7 is comprised of three database schemas. These schemas are identical whether you are using the WebSphere Commerce Accelerator or the Management Center.
Related tasks
Load data into workspaces using the Data load utility
Load data and files from an external source into workspaces using the mass load utility