IBM SG24-6320-00 manual Catalog subsystem, Single sign-on

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Single sign-on

WebSphere Commerce supports single sign-on when configured with an LDAP directory.

2.3.2 Catalog subsystem

The Catalog subsystem provides online catalog navigation, merchandising features, interest lists, and search capabilities. The Catalog subsystem includes all logic and data relevant to a catalog, including categories, products and their attributes, items, and any associations or relationships among them. It interacts with the Member subsystems and the Order subsystems to obtain information about viewing templates and pricing. The following features are provided:

Groupings

A generic grouping construct is introduced for categorizations of various products. The owner of a catalog group may not necessarily be the owner of all the catalog entries in the group. This allows portal owners to define the categories of products offered while other suppliers can add their products to the catalog group.

Catalog entries

One or more catalog entries can belong to a catalog group. A set of base object types is provided to represent products, stock keeping unit (SKU) items, packages, and bundles in a catalog entry.

Merchandising associations

These make it possible to create an association between any two catalog objects, which become cross-sells, up-sells, and promotions.

Globalization support

The catalog design addresses the requirement to support multicultural features such as product display and currency format according to the locale.

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