Notes

Part 1: Catalog System

1When you export the catalog, you might assume that you will export all of the asset information attached to your nodes and entries. However, due to the limitations of the content type models (we will talk about it later) , when you export inside Commerce Manager, those information will be lost.

2You will export all of the warehouses and metaclasses in the system, even if the catalog being export does not use those. That’s the default behavior. You might argue that it’s not very reasonable. I think it’s up to your point of view to see if the system should be exporting those or not. If you want a clear “catalog”, follow the instruction in my blog post.

3You can read more about Dynamic Data Store here. If you want to take a look at how catalog versions were stored (Given you have Commerce 8 databases), check tblBigTable in CMS database. The catalog content drafts are in CatalogContentDraftStore store.