Facet inheritance settings control how a catalog or category inherits facets from a parent:
Global facets can be inherited by all catalogs or sets of linked catalogs.
Catalog facets can be inherited by a catalog’s categories and subcatalogs.
Category facets can be inherited by a category’s subcategories.
Catalog facet inheritance behaves differently in a multisite environment than it does in a non-multisite environment:
In a non-multisite environment, a subcatalog cannot inherit catalog facets from a parent catalog if the merchandising user’s profile contains only the subcatalog. The user profile must also contain the parent catalog in order for facets from the parent catalog to be available for that user.
In a multisite environment, a subcatalog can inherit catalog facets from parent catalogs, regardless of whether the parents are in the merchandising user’s profile.
Note: This behavior does not apply to Category facets. A subcatalog does not inherit category facets from categories in a parent catalog if the parent is not in the user’s profile.
For example, the following illustration shows a catalog hierarchy that contains a root catalog called Master Catalog and its subcatalog, Womens Clothing. The Master Catalog contains a catalog facet, master_catalog_facet. The Womens Clothing catalog contains a catalog facet, womens_catalog_facet.
The Womens Catalog is associated with a merchandiser’s profile, but the Master Catalog is not. The merchandiser navigates to the Dresses category and selects Inherit facets from parent categories.
In a multisite environment, the womens_catalog_facet appears in the list of inherited facets. In a non-multisite environment, it does not.
For information about setting facet inheritance, see the Merchandising Business User Guide. For information about setting up internal user profiles, see the ATG Business Control Center Administration and Development Guide.
