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Deleting Products and Categories

When deleting products, you must first unadopt the product. Similarly, when deleting a category, first unadopt all products associated with that category.

CAUTION:  If you do not delete products and categories using the method described in this topic, you must run the Acquire Categories action to make sure that the allocation functions correctly in the new hierarchy. You can also run the Acquire Categories action to synchronize the category-product hierarchy when inconsistencies are introduced through error. Failing to keep this hierarchy synchronized adversely affects the allocation functionality.

This task is a step in Process of Setting Up Category-Product Hierarchies.

To unadopt a product

1. Navigate to the Administration - Catalog screen, then the SVP Categories view.
2. Drill down on the Category Name field hyperlink for a category.
3. In the Subcategories list, drill down on the Name field hyperlink until you reach the lowest level subcategory.
4. In the Products list, select one or more products that you want to delete.
5. Click SVP Adopt.

   The check in the SVP Adoptee field of the selected product is cleared. This product is no longer active for the parent category in SVP functions.