Commerce items as resources

Starting with Sitecore Experience Commerce 10.2, Commerce items are provided as Sitecore resource files (.dat). During Sitecore initialization, Sitecore loads Commerce items as a subset of items from precompiled resource items on disk, and merges them into the user-visible content tree.

Your default Sitecore XC deployment includes items as resources (.dat) files stored in the master, core and web folders.

The inetpub/wwwroot/<Sitecore>/sitecore modules/items/core folder contains the following items as resources files:

• connect.items.core.dat
• connect.xanalytics.items.core.dat
• connect.xprofiles.items.core.dat
• engine.connect.items.core.dat
• items.core.spe.dat
• items.core.sxa.dat

The inetpub/wwwroot/<Sitecore>/sitecore modules/items/master folder contains the following items as resources files:

• connect.items.master.dat
• connect.marketingautomation.items.master.dat
• connect.sample.items.master.dat
• connect.xanalytics.items.master.dat
• engine.connect.items.master.dat
• engine.connect.sample.items.master.dat
• items.master.spe.dat
• items.master.sxa.dat
• xa.habitat.items.master.dat
• xa.items.master.dat
• xa.storefront.items.master.dat
• xa.themes.items.master.dat

The inetpub/wwwroot/<Sitecore>/sitecore modules/items/web folder contains the following items as resources files:

• connect.items.web.dat
• connect.marketingautomation.items.web.dat
• connect.sample.items.web.dat
• connect.xanalytics.items.web.dat
• engine.connect.items.web.dat
• engine.connect.sample.items.web.dat
• items.web.spe.dat
• items.web.sxa.dat
• xa.habitat.items.web.dat
• xa.items.master.dat
• xa.storefront.items.web.dat
• xa.themes.items.web.dat