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Associating Products with Categories

After establishing your multiple-category hierarchy, you associate products with each of the appropriate categories. Associate only products at the lowest level of the category hierarchy.

CAUTION:  Even though you can add products to the upper levels of the category hierarchy, it is not recommended because the products are not recognized during SVP actions.

NOTE:  If you create product to category links through other methods that are external to the application, you need to perform an Acquire Categories action to create the associations. For more information about this action, see Acquiring Categories.

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

To associate products with a category

1. Navigate to the Administration - Catalog screen, then the SVP Categories view.
2. Drill down on the Category Name field hyperlink for a category.

   The SVP Category Details view appears.

3. In the Subcategories list, drill down on the Name field hyperlink until you reach the lowest level subcategory.
4. In the Products list, create a new record.
5. In the Add Internal Products dialog box, select one or more products, and click Add.
6. In the Products list, select one or more products for which you want to designate an SVP parent category.
7. Click SVP Adopt.

   The SVP Adoptee field of the selected product is automatically populated with a check. This product now has the selected parent category as its SVP parent. The other products in the Products list, for which the SVP Adoptee field is cleared, are not active products for the parent category. They do not appear in sales volume plans for the parent category.