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introduced in WebSphere Commerce Suite V5.4. The master catalog rule is enforced and therefore will need to be added during the migration. The Product Management Tool only work with the master catalog.

The structural restrictions for a master catalog are:

The master catalog must be a proper tree with no cycles

e.g The parent category A has a subcategory B. Subcategory B and any of B’s subcategories must not have A as their child.

A product cannot belong to more than one category

All items under a product must belong to same category as the product belongs to

If the restrictions are not suitable for your catalog then sales catalog(s) can be created for navigational purposes. Sales catalogs have no structural restrictions.

Apparel Master Catalog

Men

Women

PantsOuterwear

SweatersSkirts

Jeans

Corduroy

Jacket

Topcoat

Turtleneck

Twin Set

Mid-length

Mini

Master Catalog

Catalog Groups

Products

Item

Product Set

Figure 10-1 Example of a master catalog

If your store has more than one catalog you must choose one of the following:

Set one of the existing catalogs as the master catalog, assuring that the restrictions mentioned above are applied.

Create a new master catalog following the restrictions defined above.

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IBM SG24-6320-00 manual Example of a master catalog