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HCL Commerce is a high-availability, highly scalable and customizable e-commerce platform. Able to support hundreds of thousands of transactions per day, HCL Commerce allows you to do business with consumers (B2C) or directly with businesses (B2B). HCL Commerce uses cloud friendly technology to make deployment and operation both easy and efficient. It provides easy-to-use tools for business users to centrally manage a cross-channel strategy. Business users can create and manage precision marketing campaigns, promotions, catalog, and merchandising across all sales channels. Business users can also use AI enabled content management capabilities.
Operating
Topics in the Operating category highlight tasks that are typically performed by business users, customer support representatives, to complete their day-to-day tasks in the operation of the HCL Commerce site.
Management Center for HCL Commerce
The Management Center for HCL Commerce, is a suite of tools to support store management, merchandising, and marketing tasks for business users (Sellers, Marketing Managers, Product Managers, Catalog Managers, Buyer Administrator, Customer Service Supervisor 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.
Managing catalog assets
A catalog asset is a URL that is associated to a category or catalog entry. For example, the URL can be a link to a more detailed product image, or a PDF document that is related to the product. The usage type of the catalog asset determines the store page on which the asset is displayed, and the location on the page.
Finding and associating catalog assets
You can find and associate assets such as files, URLs or existing attachments to categories, sales catalogs, and catalog entries.

Finding and associating catalog assets

You can find and associate assets such as files, URLs or existing attachments to categories, sales catalogs, and catalog entries.

Before you begin

If the asset is an attachment, ensure that the file or attachment is created in the Attachments tool.
From the explorer view, navigate to the sales catalog, category, or catalog entry you want to associate an asset to. Alternatively, you can find the category, or catalog entry.
Open the business object (sales catalog, category, or catalog entry); then click the Associated Assets tab.
The associated assets table displays.

Procedure

Associate a URL:

In the Associated Assets table, click .
A new row is appended to the table.
Add the following information to the new row:

Property	Description
Sequence	The order in which the object is displayed. Numbers are displayed in ascending order.
Type	Asset icon is displayed. This field is read-only.
Store	If workspaces are enabled, or in an extended sites model; the store the asset belongs to.
Path	The path of the URL.
Code	The language independent identifier.
Administrative name	The administrative name for the asset. This name displays only within Management Center.
Display name	The name of the asset that displays in the storefront
Usage	The usage for the asset.
Description	A description of the asset relation.

If you are associating thumbnail angle images and full-size angle images, assign the same sequence number for each individual thumbnail and the corresponding full-size image.
1. Assign a sequence number for the thumbnail angle image.
  For example, 1.0.
2. Assign the same sequence number for the corresponding full-size angle image.
  For example, 1.0.
3. Complete step 2.a and step 2.b for the rest of the images with a different sequence number for each pair of images.
4. Click Save.
Note: The search index must be rebuilt before the changes are displayed in the store. Contact a site administrator to rebuild the search index or, if an UpdateSearchIndex job is scheduled, wait for the specified time interval to pass.
Click Save; then click Close.