WebSphere Commerce Enterprise

Working in extended site stores in Management Center

If your company operates an extended site, you can perform certain tasks directly from your extended site store within Management Center.

For example, from your extended site store, you can complete the following actions:

  • Create, edit, and view business objects that are owned by the extended sites store.
  • View and use certain shared business objects that are owned by and inherited from the catalog asset store and the storefront asset store. If you also have access to the asset stores, you can perform more tasks on these inherited business objects from within the extended site store. For example, you can change and delete products that are owned by the catalog asset store from within an extended site store.

Working with business objects owned by the catalog asset store

When you are logged on to an extended site store, you can perform certain actions on catalog objects that are owned by the catalog asset store. The following table describes the actions that you can perform in an extended site store. The available actions depend on whether you have access to the extended site store only, or both the extended site store and the asset store.
Business object that is owned by the catalog asset store You have access to:
Extended site store only Extended site store and catalog asset store
Category
  • View
  • Use as parent category when you are creating new category, product, bundle, or kit in the extended site store
  • Change
  • Delete
  • Make a copy in the extended site
  • Use as parent category when you are creating new category, product, bundle, or kit in the extended site store
Product and SKU
  • View
  • Use when you are creating new bundles, kits, or merchandising associations in the extended site store
  • Feature Pack 5 or laterOverride and set a store specific name and description for an inherited product or SKU in an extended site store
  • Change
  • Delete
  • Make a copy in the extended site
  • Use when you are creating new bundles, kits, or merchandising associations in the extended site store
  • Feature Pack 5 or laterOverride and set a store specific name and description for a product or SKU in an extended site store or group of stores
Price
  • View
  • Override in the extended site store
  • Change
  • Delete
  • Override in the extended site store
Bundle and Kit
  • View
  • Introduced in Feature Pack 2Add or remove attribute dictionary attributes from bundles and kits
  • Feature Pack 5 or laterOverride and set a store specific name and description for an inherited bundle or kit in an extended site store
  • Change
  • Add only the SKUs that are owned by the asset store
  • Cannot add SKUs that are owned by the extended site store or another asset store
  • Delete
  • Make a copy in the extended site store
  • Introduced in Feature Pack 2Add or remove attribute dictionary attributes from bundles and kits
  • Feature Pack 5 or laterOverride and set a store specific name and description for a bundle or kit in an extended site store or group of stores
Attachment
  • View
  • Use as an attachment when you are creating new product or SKU in the extended site store
  • Change
  • Delete
  • Make a copy in the extended site
  • Use as attachment when you are creating new product or SKU in the extended site store
Managed file
  • View
  • Use to create an attachment in the extended site store
  • Change
  • Delete
  • Make a copy in the extended site
  • Use to create an attachment in the extended site store
Attribute dictionary attributes
  • View
  • Introduced in Feature Pack 2Add to products, bundles, kits, or SKUs that are owned by the extended site store
  • Introduced in Feature Pack 2Remove from products, bundles, kits, or SKUs that are owned by the extended site store
  • Introduced in Feature Pack 3Create
  • Introduced in Feature Pack 3Delete
  • Introduced in Feature Pack 2Change
  • Introduced in Feature Pack 2Add to products, bundles, kits, or SKUs
  • Introduced in Feature Pack 2Remove from products, bundles, kits, or SKUs
Attribute dictionary attribute values
  • View
  • Introduced in Feature Pack 2Copy
  • Make a copy in the extended site store
  • Introduced in Feature Pack 2Change
  • Introduced in Feature Pack 2Add to products, bundles, kits, or SKUs
  • Introduced in Feature Pack 2Create new local attribute values for inherited attributes
Attribute (non-attribute dictionary)
  • View
  • Change
  • Delete
  • Make a copy in the extended site store
  • Add to products or SKUs
  • Create new local attribute values for inherited attributes
Merchandising association
  • View
  • Change
  • Add only the products or SKUs that are owned by the asset store
  • You cannot add products or SKUs that are owned by the extended site store or another asset store
  • Delete
  • Make a copy in the extended site
Sales catalog
  • View
  • Use as source for local sales catalogs
  • Feature Pack 5 or laterSet as a default catalog for only the extended site store
  • Change (can add only categories or catalog entries that are owned by the asset store. You cannot add products or SKUs that are owned by the extended site store or another asset store)
  • Delete
  • Make a copy in the extended site store
  • Feature Pack 5 or laterSet a default catalog for all extended site stores in the asset store

Attribute folders

  • View
  • Use asset store folders to aid in organizing extended site store attribute dictionary. Users can add one or more extended site attribute folders into an asset store folder. Users can remove or delete any extended site attribute folders from an asset store folder
  • View, create, change, delete.
  • Use to organize the asset store attribute dictionary. Users can add attributes or subfolders into a folder, or delete attributes or subfolders from a folder.
  • Use to organize the extended site store attribute dictionary. Users can add one or more extended site attribute folders into an asset store folder. Users can remove or delete any extended site attribute folders from an asset store folder

Working with business objects owned by the storefront asset store

When you are logged on to an extended site store, you can perform certain actions on marketing and promotion objects that are owned by the storefront asset store. The following table describes the actions that you can perform in an extended site store. The available actions depend on whether you have access to the extended site store only, or both the extended site store and the asset store.
Business object that is owned by the storefront asset store You have access to:
Extended site store only Extended site store and storefront asset store
E-Marketing Spot
  • View
  • Use when you are creating new web activities
  • Change
  • Delete
  • Duplicate in the extended site store
  • Use when you are creating new web activities
Campaign
  • View
  • Change
  • Delete
  • Duplicate in the extended site store
  • Assign campaign activities to (can assign only the campaign activities that are owned in the asset store)
Marketing activity
  • View
  • Change:

    When you are creating properties that reference objects (e-Marketing Spot, email template, content, catalog entry), you can reference only the business objects that are owned by the asset store. You cannot reference business objects that are owned by an extended site store or another asset store.

  • Delete
  • Duplicate in the extended site store
  • Activate or deactivate
Email template
  • View
  • Use when you are creating new email activities
  • Change
  • Delete
  • Duplicate in the extended site store
  • Use when you are creating new email activities
Content
  • View
  • Use when you are creating new marketing activities
  • Change
  • Delete
  • Duplicate in the extended site store
  • Use when you are creating new marketing activities
Promotion
  • View
  • Use when you are creating new marketing activities
  • Change
  • Delete
  • Duplicate in the extended site store
  • Activate or deactivate
Customer segment
  • View
  • Use when you are creating new marketing activities
  • Change
  • Delete
  • Duplicate in the extended site store
  • Use when you are creating new marketing activities

Promotion folders

  • View
  • Feature Pack 6 or laterUse to organize extended site promotion folders. Users can add one or more extended site folders into an asset store folder. Users can remove or delete extended site folders from an asset store folder
  • View
  • Feature Pack 6 or laterCreate, change, delete.
  • Use to organize asset store promotions. Users can add promotions into a folder, or delete promotions from a folder.
  • Feature Pack 6 or laterUsers can add subfolders into a folder, or delete subfolders from a folder.
  • Feature Pack 6 or laterUse to organize the extended site store promotions. Users can add one or more extended site promotion folders into an asset store folder. Users can remove or delete any extended site promotion folders from an asset store folder

Marketing folders

  • View
  • Use to organize extended site marketing folders. Users can add one or more extended site folders into an asset store folder. Users can remove or delete extended site folders from an asset store folder
  • View, create, change, delete.
  • Use to organize asset store e-Marketing Spots, content, activities, and customer segments. Users can add marketing objects or subfolders into a marketing folder of the same object type, or delete objects or subfolders from a folder.
  • Use to organize the extended site store marketing objects. Users can add one or more extended site marketing folders into an asset store folder. Users can remove or delete any extended site marketing folders from an asset store folder
Pages
  • View
  • Change
  • Delete
  • Copy in the extended site store
  • Assign a layout
Layouts
  • View
  • Change
  • Delete
  • Duplicate in the extended site store
  • Assign to a page

User roles and extended sites (consumer direct)

This table describes the user roles that can access each type of store in a consumer direct extended sites business model. This table also describes how these user roles use extended sites.
Type of store User roles that can access this store User role can:
Catalog asset store Category Manager
  • Create, change, and delete categories
  • Create new products, bundles, or kits
  • List catalog entries
  • Work with merchandising associations
  • Generate reports
  • Introduced in Feature Pack 2Create, change, view, and delete category versions.
  • Create, change, view, and delete catalog entry versions.
  • Create search term associations
  • Feature Pack 6 or laterCreate, change, delete, and work with attribute folders
Storefront asset store Marketing Manager Manage the following business objects:
  • Customer segments
  • Campaigns
  • Marketing activities
  • E-Marketing Spots
  • Email templates
  • Content
  • Search rules
  • Promotions
  • Feature Pack 6 or laterPromotion folders
  • Feature Pack 6 or laterMarketing folders
  • Feature Pack 7 or laterPages
  • Feature Pack 7 or laterLayouts
Extended site store
  • Marketing Manager
  • Category Manager
  • Seller
Manage all business objects that are owned by the extended site store, according to the user role. Can also work with business objects owned by asset stores. See:

User roles and extended sites (B2B direct)

This table describes the user roles that can access each type of store in a B2B direct extended sites business model. This table also describes how these user roles use extended sites.
Type of store User roles that can access this store User role can:
Catalog asset store Category Manager
  • Create, change, and delete categories
  • Create new products, bundles, or kits
  • List catalog entries
  • Work with merchandising associations
  • Generate reports
  • Introduced in Feature Pack 2Create, change, view, and delete category versions.
  • Create, change, view, and delete catalog entry versions.
  • Create search term associations
  • Feature Pack 6 or laterCreate, change, delete, and work with attribute folders
Storefront asset store
  • Marketing Manager
  • Seller
  • Sales Manager
  • Account Representative
Set up marketing activities and promotions, specifically:
  • Customer segments
  • Campaigns
  • Marketing activities
  • E-Marketing Spots
  • Email templates
  • Content
  • Search rules
  • Promotions
  • Feature Pack 6 or laterPromotion folders
  • Feature Pack 6 or laterMarketing folders
  • Feature Pack 7 or laterPages
  • Feature Pack 7 or laterLayouts
Extended site store
  • Marketing Manager
  • Category Manager
  • Seller
  • Buyer
  • Sales Manager
  • Logistics Manager
  • Account Representative
Manage all business objects that are owned by the extended site store, according to the user role. Can also work with business objects owned by asset stores. See: