Categories in a catalog can inherit global, catalog, or category facets that belong to parent assets. Merchandisers determine which facets a category inherits by setting the category’s inheritance options in Merchandising. By default, merchandisers can set specific inheritance options for a category even if it has no local facets of its own. You can change this behavior so that any catalog or category inheritance settings are ignored unless the category contains at least one category facet. Global facets are not affected by this setting.
To configure the facet inheritance settings for categories without their own local facets:
In your local configuration, create a properties file for the following component:
/atg/commerce/search/refinement/
RefinementConfigurationCollectorFactorySet the
propagateFacetInheritanceFlagsValuesproperty totrueorfalse:false(default): The local inheritance settings of a category are always used, even if it has no local facets.true: A category that has no category facets defined has the same facet inheritance settings as its parent. Any local inheritance settings are ignored.If a category has at least one local facet defined, the
propagateFacetInheritanceFlagsValuesproperty has no affect on the facet inheritance behavior.
