Eligibility Display Options for Catalogs

In catalogs, there are three options for how eligibility information is displayed:

• Show Products Only. All products are displayed, whether or not the user is eligible to purchase them. Eligibility information is not displayed to the user. This option also turns off product effectivity, price list and contract visibility.

• Hide Products. Products are not displayed if the user is not eligible to purchase them.

• Show Products with Comments. All products are displayed. A comments displayed with each product says whether the user is eligible to purchase it.

If customers are eligible for only a small percentage of the total products, then choosing the Hide Products option gives slower performance than the Show Products with Comments option. This is because a large number of records must be read before enough records are found to fill a page. This performance trade-off must be considered when selecting the Display Mode during implementation design.