You can work with the following category properties in the Details pane. The properties described in this section are the category properties that come with Merchandising by default. Your administrator might have added new catalog properties that are specific to your Web sites.
General Tab
Property | Description |
|---|---|
Default display name | Name used for the category on the site. This property is required. The name does not have to be unique, as Merchandising assigns a unique ID to each asset you create. |
Sites | In a multisite environment, the names of the sites to which the category belongs. This property is read-only. See Assets in a Multisite Environment. |
Start date | Date on which the category is available. |
End date | Date the category is no longer available. |
Default description | Short descriptive text to display with the category. |
Default long description | Detailed descriptive text to display with the category. |
Template | JSP template used to display the category. For details about working with templates, see Creating and Managing Catalog Media Assets and Folders. |
Catalog Media Tab
Categories, products, and SKUs all have the same set of media properties: a template (on the General tab), thumbnail image, small image, large image, and auxiliary media. Your Web sites may not need all of these properties. For example, at most commerce sites, each SKU would not be displayed in its own template page. More commonly, a product’s template page displays all child SKUs of the product.
Categories, products, and SKUs all have the same set of media properties to give you as much flexibility as possible when setting up your catalog. For example, you might want to associate certain media items with products rather than SKUs. If SKUs are differentiated by a visible characteristic such as color, you might want to have different image for each SKU, rather than having a single set of images associated with the parent product.
For details about working with Media properties, see Creating and Managing Catalog Media Assets and Folders.
Products Tab
Property | Description |
|---|---|
Fixed child products | List of explicitly-set child products of this category. |
Child products (group) | Name of the content group that contains child products of this category. |
Advanced Tab
Property | Description |
|---|---|
Sub catalogs | List of catalogs contained by this category. A subcatalog is a catalog whose root categories are child categories of this category. |
Fixed related categories | List of explicitly-set categories related to this category. |
Related categories (group) | Name of the content group that contains categories that are related to this category. |
Parent categories for catalog | Parent category in the context of the current catalog. |
