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Create 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 to allow you to create a catalog that suits the store's requirements.
In particular, sales catalogs do not need to satisfy a restriction imposed on master catalogs, that a product cannot belong to more than one category.
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 the sales catalog data in XML file load it into the database using the loading utilities, or publish it as part of a store archive using the Publish wizard.
- Create the sales catalog in CSV format, and load it into the database using the data load utility.
- Create the sales catalog in CSV format and import the sales catalog into WebSphere Commerce.
Related concepts
Overview of the data load utility
Related reference
Database asset groups dependencies