Staging and Browsing Partner Offerings

This chapter provides an overview of browsing and selecting partner offerings and discusses how to:

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The staging process indicates that a partner's offerings and associated categories have been approved by the enterprise catalog manager and are ready to be included in the current version of the enterprise catalog. The staging process consolidates selected partner offerings with the offerings from the enterprise's other partners.

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Stage Partner Offerings

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Catalog Management, Catalog Management Home

Select an enterprise catalog.

Select a partner catalog.

Stage Partner Offerings

Consolidate partner offerings and indicate that they are ready to be included in the enterprise catalog.

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Access the Stage Partner Offerings page (Catalog Management, Catalog Management Home, Stage Partner Offerings).

Click Stage Partner Offerings to run the staging process.

A process request is submitted. Click the Process Monitor link to monitor the status of the request.

See Also

Enterprise PeopleTools 8.50 PeopleBook: PeopleSoft Process Scheduler.

Click to jump to parent topicBrowsing Staged Offerings

This section discusses how to:

Note. The field names and information regarding selected catalogs and offerings displayed on the browse pages vary based on the catalog type.

When you browse partner offerings, you only see offerings for an individual partner and partners will only see their own. When you browse enterprise catalog offerings, you see a consolidated view of all partner offerings. Information on these pages is read-only.

Note. All partner users can browse their own partner offerings. However, partners must be granted privileges to browse enterprise catalog offerings.

See Also

Assigning Partners and Granting Privileges

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Browse Staged Partner Offerings

EOCM_BRWSE_P_STG

Catalog Management, Catalog Management Home

Select an enterprise catalog.

Select a staged version of a partner catalog.

Browse Staged Partner Offerings

Browse staged offerings for the selected partner.

Partner Offering Pricing

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Click the Offering Prices link on the Browse Staged Partner Offerings page.

View pricing for the selected partner offering.

Partner Offering

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Click the Offering Details link on the Browse Staged Partner Offerings page.

Browse detailed information for the selected partner offering.

Browse Staged Partner Offerings by Hierarchy

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Catalog Management, Catalog Management Home

Select an enterprise catalog.

Select a staged version of a partner catalog.

Browse Staged Partner Offerings by Hierarchy

Browse the staged version of the selected partner's offerings by category hierarchy.

Browse Staged Enterprise Catalog by Offering

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Catalog Management, Catalog Management Home

Select an enterprise catalog.

Browse Staged Enterprise Catalog by Offering

Browse the staged version of the selected enterprise catalog offerings.

Browse Staged Enterprise Catalog by Hierarchy

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Catalog Management, Catalog Management Home

Select an enterprise catalog.

Browse Staged Enterprise Catalog by Hierarchy

Browse the staged version of the selected enterprise catalog offerings by category hierarchy.

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Access the Browse Staged Partner Offering page (Catalog Management, Catalog Management Home, Browse Staged Partner Offering). The Browse Staged Partner Offering page displays which Category in Catalog is the Item currently associated with.

Categories for This Offering

This grid lists categories assigned to the selected partner offering.

Partner Listings for This Offering

This grid displays information for each partner that offers this product or service.

Offering Prices

Click to access the Partner Offering Pricing page and view pricing information for this offering.

Offering Details

Click to access the Partner Offering Detail page and view details for the selected offering.

Note. The URL field located on the Partner Offering Detail page contains the URL address from the partner source data file. Click Open to link to the URL address in a new browser window. To view attachments in a new browser window go to the Attachments grid and click the View File button associated with the desired attachment

Edit Offering

Click to access the Maintain Partner Data page and manually update offering details.

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicBrowsing Staged Partner Offerings by Hierarchy

Access the Browse Staged Partner Offerings by Hierarchy page (Catalog Management, Catalog Management Home, Browse Staged Partner Offerings by Hierarchy).

Use the Find Category feature to locate a specific category, or use the folder icons to navigate through the selected hierarchy. Catalog offerings in a selected category appear in the grid below.

Catalog Hierarchy ID

Value reflects the hierarchy selected on the search page. The name of the hierarchy is displayed to the right.

Partner Offerings

Click to access the Browse Staged Partner Offering page and view detail information for the selected offering.

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicBrowsing Staged Enterprise Catalog by Offering

Access the Browse Staged Enterprise Catalog by Offering page (Catalog Management, Catalog Management Home, Browse Staged Enterprise Catalog by Offering).

This page is essentially the same as the Browse Staged Partner Offering page.

See Browsing Staged Partner Offerings.

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicBrowsing Staged Enterprise Catalog Offerings by Hierarchy

Access the Browse Enterprise Catalog Offerings by Hierarchy page (Catalog Management, Catalog Management Home, Browse Enterprise Catalog Offerings by Hierarchy).

This page is essentially the same as the Browse Staged Partner Offerings by Hierarchy page.

See Browsing Staged Partner Offerings by Hierarchy.