Workspace managed assets

Managed assets are WebSphere Commerce components or resources 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. The following assets are not enabled for workspaces:

WebSphere Commerce provides the following managed assets in Management Center:

Management Center tool Managed assets
Catalogs tool

  • Catalogs

  • Categories

  • Catalog entries

  • Attributes

  • Prices

  • Merchandising associations

  • Search term associations.

  • SEO URL and keyword metadata

  • Facets

Marketing tool

Promotions tool

  • Promotions

Attachments tool

  • Assets

Installments tool

Commerce Composer tool

  • Page layouts

  • Page layout assignments

  • SEO URL and keyword metadata for content pages

Search indexing is enabled for workspaces. A separate search index is created for each allocated workspace to preview non-approved changes in a search-based navigation storefront in an authoring environment.

Other assets such as contract assets, member management assets, store management assets, file assets such as JSP files or HTML files are not managed assets. We can work on only non-managed assets in the production-ready data.

If your planned site updates include a mix of managed assets, we want to update the site by using workspaces and non-managed assets. Ensure that your planned workflow handles any dependencies between the managed and non-managed assets.


Related concepts
Workspaces overview
IBM Management Center for WebSphere Commerce
WebSphere Commerce Accelerator