An asset can appear in multiple locations on your site. For example, you may want to represent a product, such as a grille, in several categories, including the Outdoor Furniture category and the Father’s Day Gifts category. Rather than create two independent, identical products, you can create one product and link it to both locations. That way, a change you make to the grille asset in one place will be reflected in both. An asset that exists in multiple locations is considered to have multiple parents.
If you want to link several assets to a new location at once, you can do so as long as all assets exist in the same view and have the same destination location. When you link one asset, the assets nested in it are also linked to the new location.
Keep in mind that most assets can link to multiple locations, and, for customers who use custom catalogs, across catalogs. The one exception to this rule involves categories, which can’t have multiple parents that are in different catalogs or subcatalogs. You can, however, duplicate a category so that it exists in both places. In this case, the categories are independent, and each has one parent.
Note: Other views such as Promotions, Media, Facets, Search Configurations, and Base Search Configurations don’t have Link buttons because the multi-parent model isn’t applicable for them.
To link assets to another part of the catalog:
In the Unlinked Catalog Items view or the Catalog view of the Browse tab, locate the assets you want to link. See Navigation Pane for instructions.
Click the checkbox beside each asset that you want to appear in another part of your catalog.
Click the Link button to open the Select Destination dialog box.
In the Select Destination dialog box, navigate through the catalog tree to the new location, and click the radio button beside the parent asset that will contain the assets. Alternatively, you can locate the parent asset by building a query in the Search tab.
Click OK.
The Select Destination dialog box closes and the assets appear highlighted in the new location. When you select a linked asset, you can see in the Details pane that it has multiple parents:
For catalog folders, see the Parent Folders property on the General tab.
For categories, see the Default Parent Category property on the Advanced tab.
For products, see the Parent Categories property on the General tab.
For SKUs and configurable SKUs, see the Parent Products property on the General tab.
