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 your 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.For an example XML file that creates a sales catalog refer to the file, salescatalogs.xml. This file is within the data directory of the HousewaresCatalogData.sar file located in the following directory:
WC_installdir/starterstores/ConsumerDirect/samplecatalogs
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