Commerce Reference Store extends the catalog
item descriptor with one property called rootNavigationCategory
. The rootNavigationCategory
property is of type category
and it references the rootCategory
category. rootCategory
functions as the root of the navigable category/product tree. It is a sibling of the NonNavigableProducts
category, which provides a location for organizing products, such as gift wrapping, that are non-navigable (that is, not part of the category tree). Neither the rootCategory
nor the NonNavigableProducts
category is visible to a website visitor.
Note: The rootCategory
should not be visible to a Web site visitor, although its child categories and products should be. Neither the NonNavigableProducts
category nor its children should be visible to a Web site visitor. For this reason, both categories are explicitly excluded from the index. For details on these exclusions, see the Configuring the Indexing Components chapter in the Endeca Integration Guide.