Management Center user interface
The Management Center user interface provides a usable, intuitive, and efficient way to complete your business tasks.
- 1 Management Center Tools menu
- Use this menu to open the following Management Center tools:
- Catalogs, Promotions, Marketing, Assets, Installments, Store Management, Catalog Filter and Pricing, Workspace Management, and Commerce Composer.
We can also open the Preferences dialog and access the Getting Started from here.
For more information, see Changing your preferences
- 2 Tool tabs
- Each Management Center tool opens in a separate
tab. If you have all tools open, you would see the following tabs:
- Catalogs, Promotions, Marketing, Assets, Installments, Store Management, Catalog Filter and Pricing, Workspace Management, Page Layout, and Commerce Composer.
- 3 Banner
- The banner is the top area or header of the user interface, and identifies the Management Center user, the log out link, and the branding logo. This area also displays the names of the task and workspace when we are working on a task or content.
- 4 Store list
- Switch to another store by selecting the down arrow next to the current store name. This list also contains a search option, which we can use to find a store.
- 5 Find area
- Search for objects by typing a keyword and selecting a search object type from a list. We can also select the advanced search option to refine our search.
- 6 Menu bar
- The Management Center includes
four menus within the menu bar: File, Edit, View, and Help. All actions
supported by the Management Center are within the menu bar.
See Getting help.
- 7 Toolbar
- Click a button on the toolbar to quickly perform a task. The toolbar actions are a subset of the most common tasks we can perform using the Management Center.
- 8 Column header
- Click a column header in any table to sort by that column. Clicking once will sort in ascending order (from A to Z, or 1 to 1000). Clicking once again will sort in descending order.
- 9 Explorer filter
- Within the Catalogs tool, we can filter the explorer view to display your top-level object.
- 10 Explorer view
- The explorer view allows us to navigate the objects with which we want to work. The entire
frame is the explorer view. We can expand and collapse the nodes in the explorer tree to view and
work with objects. For example, we can expand a catalog until you reach the catalog SKU level. The
explorer view always includes the Search Results node (to allow you to return
to a list of results at any time) and Active Work node (to show the objects
you currently have open). To toggle the explorer view on or off click
.
For more information, about how to use the explorer view see Use the explorer view.
- 11 Main work area
- The Management Center main work area is controlled by what you have selected in the explorer view and is displayed in the middle (largest) area of the user interface. The main work area can display information in three views: list view, properties view, or calendar view. We can also split the main work area (horizontally or vertically) so that we can see two views at once.
- 12 Status bar
- The status bar is the bottom area or footer of the user
interface, and includes messages, access to the message console (by clicking
), and a progress indicator.
- One of the three views displayed in the main work area. A properties view shows details about an object and is where we can edit the object. The properties view can contain entry fields, check boxes, radio buttons, lists, tables, pull-down sections, and tabs. You access the properties view from either selecting to create a new instance of an object, or by selecting an existing object from a list view.
- 13 Utilities view
- The utilities view allows us to locate and use objects
to reference or use with the current object, without navigating away from the current
view. For example, while editing a product, we want to include a reference to another product as a
cross-sell item. Use the utilities view to search for merchandising association items, and then drag
an item from the utilities view to the merchandising association tab of the source product. The
utilities view includes three functions: search (to find objects by a system search), browse (to
find objects by looking within a directory structure or hierarchy), and clipboard (a container to hold objects for later use). To toggle the utilities view on or off click
.
- 14 List view
- One of the three views displayed in the main work area. A list view lists objects in the form of
a table. We can view the list and select a specific row to see more details. We can also reorder,
hide, show, or resize columns. If information is editable, we can click the cell and edit on the spot. To make multiple changes throughout a table more efficiently, we can update several cells in
the same column at once with the same value.See the following topics:
- 15 Properties View
- One of the three views displayed in the main work area. A properties view shows details about an object and is where we can edit the object. The properties view can contain entry fields, check boxes, radio buttons, lists, tables, pull-down sections, and tabs. You access the properties view from either selecting to create a new instance of an object, or by selecting an existing object from a list view.
- Management Center store object icons
Management Center tools include icons for each specific business object that are managed with each tool. The following tables list the store object icons that are available within the Management Center tools. These icons display when we are working on related store object content.
Related tasks
Finding objects in Management Center
Use the explorer view
Use the utilities view
Use table views
Replacing text strings
Related reference
Management Center keyboard shortcuts