Create a merchandising association semantic

By default, WebSphere Commerce displays four merchandising association semantics: comes_with, none, requires, or temp. You can create your own merchandising association semantics, based on your business needs. The following instructions work for both the development and production environments. You should test your changes in the development environment before propagating them to your production environment.

To create a merchandising association semantic, do one of the following:

• If you are inserting a small number of merchandising association semantics, insert a merchandising association semantic into the database.

• If you are inserting a large number of merchandising association semantics, use the loading utilities to load the merchandising association type information into the database. Use the following XML tag as a guide when creating an XML file for the loading utilities:

  <massoc massoc_id='yourCustomMASemantic' description='yourCustomMASemanticDescription' /> 

  Where:

  yourCustomMASemantic

  is the new merchandising association semantic and yourCustomMASemanticDescription is the new merchandising association semantic description.

Related concepts

• Merchandising associations

Related tasks

• Change the type of merchandising association

• Create a merchandising association type