When you no longer want an asset to reside in a given part of a catalog, unlink it. The unlinking option lets you decide if you want to remove the asset from one part of the tree or all parts of the tree at once. For an asset that is linked to several locations in the catalog, unlinking it from one location does not affect the others or the asset’s visibility in Catalog view.
When you unlink an asset that exists in one part of the catalog only or you decide to unlink it from all locations at once, the asset loses its parent(s) and turns into an unlinked catalog item. Although its nested assets still have a direct parent, because their parent is an unlinked item, they, too, become unlinked items. Unlinked catalog items are accessible from the Unlinked Catalog Items view of the Browse tab, where you can delete them or link them back to the catalog.
To see all parents for an asset, click the asset name and check the following property in the Details pane:
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.
Note that because media assets must exist in media folders, the unlink operation isn’t available for them. It is available in the Media view, however, for use with folders as a means for moving a folder to the top-level directory. Unlinking isn’t available to other assets that permit no parents (promotions, global facets, base search configurations) or only one parent (local facets, price lists, search configurations).
To remove an asset from one part of the catalog:
Locate the assets you want to unlink in the Search tab or Catalog view, Media view, or Unlinked Catalog Items view of the Browse tab.
Navigate to the assets in the location from which you’d like them removed.
Click the checkbox beside each asset.
Click the Unlink button, and from the dropdown list that displays, select the option that suits your purpose:
Use Unlink from selected location to remove the asset only from the parent that contains the iteration you checked.
Use Unlink from all locations to remove the asset from the catalog tree.
The selected assets are no longer visible in that part of the hierarchy.
