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Creating a Web Content Export Job Detail for Siebel Catalogs

To export nested Siebel categories correctly, you must set the system preference SiebCommExpCtlgCtgyHier to Y. This setting turns on the functionality that exports all children of a given level within the catalog hierarchy as well as all parents. For more information, see Enabling Cascading Deletions of Web Content Export Job Details.

Only catalogs of the type Buying can be exported to Oracle ATG Web Commerce. If an export job includes catalogs of other types, then SCOA does not create XML files for these nonbuying catalogs, so they are not exported to ATG Web Commerce.

The following best practices are recommended for exporting catalogs:

• Try to aggregate related commerce data by creating Web content export job details for catalogs and for the corresponding products and price lists that are line items of one separate, export contents job.
• Create exports at the appropriate level of granularity. For example, if many products in a category have been modified, then export the category. If only a few products in a category have been modified, then export only those products
• Make sure the resulting set of catalogs is of reasonable size, because larger record sets can negatively impact performance. It is best to build jobs with a few hundred records or less.

You can create an export job by using the Update Commerce App button or menu option on the following views of the Administration - Catalog screen:

• Catalogs view (button)
• More Info view (button)
• Smart Answer Settings view (button)
• Categories view (button)
• Access Groups view (button)
• Catalog Translations view (button)
• Catalog Detail view (menu option)
• Category Detail view (menu option)

The following procedure uses the Catalogs view as an example, but you can also perform the same task in the other views.

NOTE:  Adding a catalog to a job does not automatically add the Product records of the catalog to the job. An administrator must manually add the products of the catalog to the job.

To create a Web content export job detail for Siebel catalogs

1. Navigate to the Administration - Catalog screen, then the Catalogs view.
2. Query for the catalogs that you want.
3. Select or make a multiple selection of the records of the catalogs that you want.
4. Click Update Commerce App.
5. In the Update Commerce App dialog box, click Export.
6. Review the message that indicates the number of records that have been sent for export.