Assets that don’t reside in the catalog hierarchy are orphan assets. Assets become orphans when they are not provided with parents during their creation or when they are unlinked from all parents. An asset turns into an orphan also when its ancestors are orphaned so even though a product has a category parent, for example, that product is an orphan if the category that contains it is an orphan. Catalog Orphans view displays the category and its nested products.
All orphan assets are visible from the Catalog Orphans view of the Browse tab. To access the Catalog Orphans view, click the Browse tab and from the Show dropdown list, select CatalogOrphans. You can work with assets in Catalog Orphans view, but keep in mind that you need to move them into the catalog hierarchy eventually so that they display as such on your Web site:
In Catalog Orphans view, you can perform the following actions:
Create new assets
Modify asset property values
Add assets to the Multi Edit tab so you can modify many at once.
Duplicate existing assets
Link assets to an additional location
Move assets to a new location
Unlink assets from a particular location
Delete assets
Add assets to your project and make them visible from the Project tab
