Keep the following points in mind as you prepare to publish changes:
Oracle Commerce Cloud Service does not use versioning for items you edit; that is, there is only one version of each item in your system. The most recent updates to an item are the ones that will be published. For example, suppose a merchandiser changes the long description and list price of a product and then saves her changes but does not publish them. Later that day, her manager changes the product’s list price again, saves his changes, and publishes the changes. The most recent changes to the product – the merchandiser’s long description and her manager’s list price – are published.
Each publish action publishes all publishable changes that were made since the last time
You cannot roll back or undo published changes.
While your changes are being published, you will not be able to work with your catalog, design items, dashboard, or settings.
Although you cannot use the UI, programs that implement the Oracle Commerce Cloud REST APIs might still attempt to update endpoints while changes are being published. During a publish operation, Oracle Commerce Cloud responds to all PUT or POST calls to endpoints that update publishable resources with HTTP status code 503, Service Unavailable.
The following types of changes do not need to be published; they take effect as soon as you save them:
Shopper settings, such as changes to the password policy.
Access control settings, such as changes to profiles
Inventory updates
