Workspace managed assets

Managed assets are WebSphere Commerce components or resources that are 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:

Price lists and rules
Catalog filters and contracts
Folders
Code assets, including JSP files.
Stores

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	e-Marketing Spots Campaigns Web activities, including experiments Customer segments
Promotions tool	Promotions
Assets tool	Assets
Installments tool	Installment rules
Page Layout tool	Page layout assignments
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.

WebSphere Commerce provides the following managed assets in WebSphere Commerce Accelerator:


Managed assets	WebSphere Commerce Accelerator
Product management	catalog, categories, products, attributes, and prices
Merchandising management	merchandising associations sales catalog
Marketing management	campaigns Web activities eSpots promotions marketing experimentation (except for email campaigns)
Attachment	attachments

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. You can work on only non-managed assets in the production-ready data.

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