Content management system integration enhancements
You can integrate WebSphere Commerce with an external content management system, such as IBM Web Content Manager. By integrating Management Center with a content management system, Management Center users can manage all WebSphere Commerce content within the integrated content management system.
In particular, integrating Management Center with IBM Web Content Manager provides users with rich text editing tools, content workflow, multilingual support, and content pre-rendering. The prebuilt integration uses a punch-out mechanism to give Management Center users direct access to the IBM Web Content Manager user interface for content editing.
With an integration between WebSphere Commerce and IBM Web Content Manager,
users can gain the following capabilities:
- Management Center users can open IBM Web Content Manager in a window to select content to associate the content with a Management Center object
- Management Center users can open IBM Web Content Manager in a window to edit content that is associated with a Management Center object
- IBM Web Content Manager users can create and manage content libraries specifically for the content that Management Center users can access through the integration.
- IBM Web Content Manager users can specify content libraries for a specific WebSphere Commerce store to limit the content that Management Center users can select or edit.
- All content necessary for WebSphere Commerce stores can be created and managed with a single application (IBM Web Content Manager).
- If the IBM Web Content Manager multilingual solution is enabled, users can retrieve or edit content for multiple languages.
- If an administrator enabled single sign-on for the integration, users can open IBM Web Content Manager and begin working within the application without having to log in to the application.
- Management Center users that are working in IBM Web Content Manager within the window can preview the content that is being selected or edited. Users can preview this content before the user returns to working within Management Center.
- Management Center users can preview the selected or edited content within Management Center with store preview. Image content from IBM Web Content Manager can also display for Management Center objects in list or properties views.