Workspaces with HCL Commerce Search based on Elasticsearch

Using workspaces in an authoring environment, business users can work on catalog-related changes in an isolated environment. They can then preview their changes in the storefront before submitting them for approval. Content approvers or workspace managers then use the Workspace Management tool in the Management Center to preview a workspace, undo submitted tasks, reject, cancel, or approve task groups.

All workspaces use the Elasticsearch search index which gets created while building the Elasticsearch index after deploying Elasticsearch docker containers. Unlike Solr search, there is no separate search index created for each allocated workspace to preview non-approved changes in a search-based navigation storefront in an authoring environment. Each of the workspace related change is stored as a document in the Elasticsearch search index. In addition to this, there is another index, workspace index, to store workspace change history details for all the workspaces created in an authoring environment.