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Siebel Order Management Guide > Creating and Managing Catalogs >
About Dynamic Product Catalogs
The dynamic product catalog is displayed when the user is creating a quote or an order in an application that uses the high-interactivity interface. This screen has enhancements that are useful for employees placing orders.
- In addition to the usual header and line items area, it has a product selection work area, which consolidates all product selection mechanisms and makes them accessible from one location. This work area displays all product selection mechanisms using the high-interactivity interface, improving performance.
- It has a Show Navigator button that the user can click to view a menu of the structure of the catalog, which allows the user to jump immediately to a product.
- It gives users access to the persistent Quote or Order header and selected product information.
- It allows users to select attributes within the catalog, while browsing or searching for products, before adding the products to a quote or order.
- It allows users to edit the header and line items, and only the data is refreshed, not the view.
- It performs only minimum screen refresh.
- It can show multiple price information.
- It is integrated with eligibility and compatibility, which are supported in all product selection mechanisms, including Catalog, Configurator, product pick-applets, Add Item and Search.
- It is integrated with promotions.
- It includes an integrated search tool, which allows you to search based on S_PROD_INT fields and price. The list of search criteria can be configured using Siebel Tools.
- It allows users to select Favorites, predefined product instances that the user can add to the current line item. Users can choose to add the entire list of Favorites or individual items. Users can edit Favorites before adding them to the line item. Users can add multiple products using the Quick Add add applet.
- Users can view all the assets of the account of the current quote or order. Users can perform the asset-based ordering operations, Modify, Disconnect, Suspend, and Resume.
- For inactive quotes and orders, which the user, it suspends the user's ability to add or edit items.
- It is administered using the standard catalog administration screen and it supports all catalog visibility, including price list based visibility, without configuration.
- It can be configured using standard Siebel tools object changes.
The dynamic catalog is also fully integrated with Configurator:
- When the user clicks Customize, Configurator appears in the catalog within the header and line item applets. Header and Line item applets are read-only in this view
- Configurator UI refresh does not refresh the whole view.
- Child component display does not refresh the whole view.
- Tab change does not refresh the whole page.
- It can be configured using Siebel Tools so it does not display header and line items applets.
For more information about how end users work with the dynamic catalog, see Adding Line Items to a Quote or an Order. For more information about setting up the dynamic product catalog, see:
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