Creating a sales catalog

A WebSphere Commerce store allows two types of catalogs: master and sales. Sales catalogs do not need to meet the structural restrictions that are placed on master catalogs. Sales catalogs are meant to provide a flexible display structure that lets you create a catalog that suits your store's requirements.

In particular, sales catalogs do not have to satisfy the restriction that a product cannot belong to more than one category. This restriction is imposed on master catalogs.

A classic sales catalog is created by adding information to the category relationship tables: CATGRPREL, which holds the subcategory relationships, and CATGPENREL, which holds the category-product relationships.

Procedure

  • Create your sales catalog data in an XML file and load it into the database with the loading utilities. You can also publish your catalog data it as part of a store archive with the Publish wizard.
  • Create your sales catalog in a CSV file and load it into the database with the Data Load utility.

    You can load your sales catalog data in a specific XML format with the Data Load utility. For more information about the supported format for Data Load utility input files, see File format for Data Load input files.

  • Create your sales catalog in CSV format and import the sales catalog into WebSphere Commerce.

    You can upload your sales catalog data into Management Center in a specific XML format. For more information about the supported format for uploading catalog data, see File format for uploading catalog data.