To provide the most flexibility, Commerce Reference Store has implemented its catalog structure using custom catalogs. With custom catalogs, it is possible to have a master catalog item that contains subcatalogs, categories, or a combination of both. Commerce Reference Store uses a master catalog item, called masterCatalog
, that is defined in the <ATG9dir>/CommerceReferenceStore/Store/Storefront/data/out-catalog.xml
file. It contains two categories:
Neither the rootNavigationCategory
nor the NonNavigableProducts
category is visible to a Web site visitor.
The following figure illustrates the catalog structure:
Note: See Using Custom Catalogs in the ATG Commerce Programming Guide for more information on custom catalogs.