How do you share changes made with Management Center between WebSphere Commerce developers?

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Example: I added new Marketing spot on some JSP page. I need to change JSP and create this spot in management center. Changes in JSP are shared through CVS, but what about Marketing Spot? It is stored somewhere in database, but I could not find solution to export this content properly neither with WCBD tool nor manually. What would you do in this case?

Thanks.

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 31 '13 at 18:50

You have three options:

Manually re-create the requisite spot configuration in the other database.
Use a shared database for the development team. It is not as bad as it sounds, I have had my team use it in the past.
Use the export/import functionality. This is not recommended as the time you will spend trying to analyze all tables and dependencies may not be worth it.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 13 '13 at 16:19

Are you trying to share across development instances? A shared dev instance is a good option as mentioned above. Also taking advantage of stageprop and staging copy could be a good answer. A quick trip to infocenter shows:

http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/wchelp/v7r0m0/topic/com.ibm.commerce.admin.doc/refs/rsscopy.htm

If you use the merchant table option it will copy changes to a store. Using this utility may require turning on stage logging in the staglog table.

How do you share changes made with Management Center between WebSphere Commerce developers?

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