Commerce Reference Store has two catalog items in the Catalog repository, masterCatalog
and homeStoreCatalog
. ATG Store US and ATG Store Germany both use masterCatalog
as their default catalog. ATG Home uses homeStoreCatalog
as its default catalog.
masterCatalog
contains two categories:
The rootCategory
should not be visible to a Web site visitor, although its child categories and products should be. Neither the NonNavigableProducts
category nor its children should be visible to a Web site visitor. For this reason, both categories are explicitly excluded from the index. For details on these exclusions, see the Configuring the Indexing Components chapter in the Endeca Integration Guide.
The following figure illustrates the masterCatalog
structure:
Similarly, homeStoreCatalog
has two root categories, homeStoreRootCategory
and homeStoreNonNavigableProducts
, that perform the same functions for homeStoreCatalog
that rootCategory
and NonNavigableProducts
do for masterCatalog
.
masterCatalog
and homeStoreCatalog
share the Home Accents category and all of its constituent products and SKUs. Therefore, changes made to the Home Accents category will affect both catalogs.