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Introduction
This section provides an overview of basic concepts and architectural features used in Intershop Commerce Management.
Catalogs and Products
This section introduces catalog and product concepts and outlines administrative tasks related to repository management, catalog management, and import & export.
Content Management
This section covers tasks related to creating, managing and sharing master pages, components and other assets that are subject to content management.
Online Marketing
This section introduces online marketing concepts and outlines administrative tasks related to managing promotions and discounts, coupons and gift certificates, affiliate partners and partner programs, and short links.
Orders and Fulfillment
This section introduces the order process and outlines administrative tasks related to managing orders, including order status handling and order export, as well as managing shipping methods and payment methods.
Customer Management
This section outlines concepts and administrative tasks related to managing customer profiles and customer segments. It also covers customer import and export tasks.
Operation and Maintenance
This section gives an overview of typical activities in the context of managing the organization, channels, applications, partners, services and mass-data business operations.

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Content Management
This section covers tasks related to creating, managing and sharing master pages, components and other assets that are subject to content management.
Content Management: Concepts
Storefront Design View

Introduction
This section provides an overview of basic concepts and architectural features used in Intershop Commerce Management.
Catalogs and Products
This section introduces catalog and product concepts and outlines administrative tasks related to repository management, catalog management, and import & export.
Content Management
This section covers tasks related to creating, managing and sharing master pages, components and other assets that are subject to content management.
Online Marketing
This section introduces online marketing concepts and outlines administrative tasks related to managing promotions and discounts, coupons and gift certificates, affiliate partners and partner programs, and short links.
Orders and Fulfillment
This section introduces the order process and outlines administrative tasks related to managing orders, including order status handling and order export, as well as managing shipping methods and payment methods.
Customer Management
This section outlines concepts and administrative tasks related to managing customer profiles and customer segments. It also covers customer import and export tasks.
Operation and Maintenance
This section gives an overview of typical activities in the context of managing the organization, channels, applications, partners, services and mass-data business operations.

Storefront Design View

As an alternative to using Intershop Commerce Management, content managers and content editors can create and manage content assets directly in the storefront, by entering the storefront in "Design View". The Design View makes it possible to immediately preview the effect of an action, e.g., the assignment of a component to a page slot, on the resulting page.

Note: The application type on which the application opened in Design View is based may be set to allow for configuring the preview settings. If this is the case, dedicated settings allow for previewing the storefront for a specific time, application, locale, user group, and currency, see Launching Design View.

The "Design View" is divided into four main areas:

The palette, which provides tiles of components and media assets for drag & drop creation of new components (the palette is hidden by default).
The render area renders the page and displays the preview, with the currently selected asset highlighted.
The content structure tree is used to navigate through the previewed content structure including page, page variant, components, includes, categories, products, etc.
The content edit area displays the available editing options for the currently selected element in the content structure tree.

The Design View provides two modes:

The Inspect mode highlights the rendered parts of the page and helps to navigate easily to that part that has to be edited.
The Layout mode displays all slots and placeholders on a page to extend or change the page layout via drag & drop.

Inspect Mode of the Design View (palette hidden) — Figure 1. Inspect Mode of the Design View (palette hidden)

Layout Mode of the Design View — Figure 2. Layout Mode of the Design View