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Managing Products Using Workspace Projects

You can also use the Workspace Projects view to manage objects and create relations among them, without having to release them.

To manage objects using Workspace Projects view, perform the tasks in the following high-level process:

• Create any new objects you need in the appropriate views for each object.

  For example, create products in the Administration - Products, then the Products view, product classes in the Administration - Products, then the Product Classes view, and so on.

• Navigate to the Administration - Products, then the Workspace Projects view and add a new record to the Workspace Projects list.
• In the Administration - Products screen, Workspace Projects, Contents view, create new records and add all these objects to this Workspace Project.
• In the Workspace Project record, select the Use Project check box.

  Selecting this check box activates the Workspace Project and makes the workspaces of these objects visible to each other for the duration of the session, even though the objects have not been released.

• Drill down on the item in the Contents list, and associate the objects to each other, as needed.

  After drilling down on them, the objects appear in the usual views you use to work with them, and you can associate them in the usual ways.

• Test the objects using Scenario Tester, as described in Process of Testing Products with Scenario Tester.
• Release the objects together using Workspace Projects, or release the objects individually, as needed.