About this Chapter

Data Management allows you to:

• Change or create data for your organization. See Managing Data.

• View or deploy pending data changes for your organization. See Viewing and Deploying the Data Changes.

• Redeploy data from one org node to another. See Data Publisher - Redeploying Data.

• Set up or edit your organization hierarchy, including Store Collections. See Managing the Organization Hierarchy.

• Initiate the end-of-year process to post the required roll-up data for stock valuation for all items and stores. See Stock Valuation Year End Roll-Up.

Where To Look For Additional Information

• Oracle Retail Xstore Point of Service Database Dictionary - The Oracle Retail Xstore Point of Service Database Dictionary Guide provides Oracle Retail Xstore Point of Service database detail and schema information. This dictionary provides a description of each table as well as a listing of all of the columns in each table.

• Oracle Retail Xstore Office Database Dictionary - The Oracle Retail Xstore Office Database Dictionary Guide provides Xcenter (a part of Oracle Retail Xstore Office) database detail and schema information. This dictionary provides a description of each table as well as a listing of all of the columns in each table.

• Oracle Retail Xstore Point-of-Service Host Interface Guide - The Oracle Retail Xstore Point-of-Service Host Interface guide provides information about the files accepted for processing updates to Oracle Retail Xstore Point of Service operating tables. In addition, this guide also provides information about the DataLoader application that is responsible for translating flat data files into database data that can be used by Oracle Retail Xstore Point of Service.

About Data Management

Data Manager changes are collected into "data bundles" containing all of the changes made within a particular org level during a given day. The changes collected in the data bundle will be deployed to their targeted stores automatically at the end of the day, or can be deployed immediately if needed. When you make changes in Data Manager and deploy them, they automatically update the Xcenter database; there is no DataLoader file created and no DataLoader processing necessary. If anything fails, it can be found in the Xcenter or Oracle Retail Xstore Office log file.

Use the Pending Modifications feature of Data Manager to delete or view the details of the data bundles before they are deployed.

Use the Data Publisher feature to deploy data from Xcenter to an org node. Deployed data will include all the data available to the targeted org node (within the categories selected by the user) and comes from Xcenter.