Working with assets in extended sites

In this tutorial you will work with products and promotions in an extended sites store and learn how to work with the asset store products and promotions from within an extended sites store, using the Management Center.

Learning objectives

In this tutorial, you will learn how to:
  • Create a new product in an extended sites store
  • Change an asset store product from within an extended sites store
  • Change a promotion in an extended sites store
  • Change an asset store promotion from within an extended sites store
  • Distinguish between an extended sites store and an asset store

Time required

Expect this tutorial to take about 30 minutes to complete.

Audience

This tutorial is intended for users with the following roles:
Category/Product Manager
Updates the asset store master catalog and adds new products to the catalog in extended sites stores.
Marketing Manager
Updates promotions in the asset store and extended sites store to make them more competitive.

Prerequisites

The tutorial requires an understanding of extended sites and the Management Center.

Before starting this tutorial, ensure that you have:

  • The Extended Sites model published in the development environment
  • Two different users created. The users have the following properties:
    User ID Organization Roles
    logan Root Organization Category/Product Manager
    amelia Root Organization Marketing Manager
    While you do not have to use these specific user IDs that are listed in this table, please note that there are references to these user IDs throughout the tutorial.
This tutorial will use three of the starter stores that are published as part of the Extended Sites model:
  • A catalog asset store, named Extended Sites Catalog Asset Store
  • A storefront asset store, named B2B Storefront Asset Store
  • An extended sites store, named Sample B2B Store. This extended site uses the Extended Sites Catalog Asset Store as its catalog asset store and the B2B Storefront Asset Store as its storefront asset store.