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The information contained in this section applies to IBM WebSphere Commerce Version 7.0.0.9 and Feautre Pack 8. The documentation also applies to all subsequent releases and modifications until otherwise indicated in new editions.
Operating
IBM Management Center for WebSphere Commerce
The IBM Management Center for WebSphere Commerce, or Management Center, is a suite of tools to support store management, merchandising, and marketing tasks for business users (Sellers, Marketing Managers, Product Managers, Catalog Managers, and others).
Catalogs tool
Use the Catalogs tool in Management Center to manage catalogs, categories, catalog entries, merchandising associations, product attributes, and attachments in your store. The Catalogs tool lets business users create, and manage online catalogs. Catalogs provide a way of organizing the products that you want to sell. You define catalog data in groups of categories and products. Catalog data contains descriptions and pricing information for products and services.
Working with catalogs
The Category Manager or Product Manager manages the catalog hierarchy by creating, modifying, and deleting catalogs for stores. There are two types of catalogs: master catalogs and sales catalogs.
Working with sales catalogs
The Category Manager manages the category hierarchy by creating, modifying, and deleting categories in sales catalogs.
Adding a child category to a parent category
You can add a child category to a parent category within the same sales catalog. For example, in a seasonal clothing sales catalog, the hats category can be added to the summer clothing parent category.

Introduced in Feature Pack 1

Adding a child category to a parent category

You can add a child category to a parent category within the same sales catalog. For example, in a seasonal clothing sales catalog, the hats category can be added to the summer clothing parent category.

Feature Pack 8

Note: You cannot add a child category to a rule-based sales category.

Procedure

Open the Catalogs tool.
From the explorer filter, select Sales Catalog Categories.
Select the parent category in the explorer tree.
Right-click the parent category; then, click Show Subcategories.
The parent category Sales Categories List view is displayed.
Add the child category to the parent category.
1. Click the Show utilities view.
2. Browse for the child category and drag it to the Sales Categories List view.
  A dialog is displayed and you are provided with the following choices: Move, Copy, Add, or Cancel; select Add to add the category to the parent category.
  Note: If the sales categories do not belong to the same sales catalog, the dialog provides you with the following choices instead: Copy, Link, or Cancel.
Click Save; then click Close.