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Master catalog example
A master catalog for a clothing store could contain catalog groups, products, items, and product sets.
The following diagram illustrates a section of a master catalog for a clothing store:
This part of the master catalog follows a basic navigation for a store containing clothing for Men and Women. Following the two top (or parent) catalog groups, are additional catalog groups ( Pants, Outerwear, Sweaters, and Skirts), going to products ( Jeans, Corduroy, Jacket, Topcoat, Turtleneck, Twin set, Mid-length, and Mini) and their related items, defined by attributes and attribute values.
This master catalog section contains product sets, which partition the catalog into logical subsets and allow you to show different parts of the catalog to different contract participants. Contracts enable a customer organization to purchase products from a store or a group of stores at a specified price for a specified period of time under specific conditions. Each product set can be referenced by one or more contracts. In this case, one set of users can view the product set enclosing Pants, while another can view the product set enclosing Corduroy, and so on. Users can participate in more than one contract.
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