Designing the Catalog in Version 6.x and 7.x

The tree structure of catalogs and items in version 6.x maps in version 7.0 and 7.5 to a hierarchy of relationships within the customizable product. A relationship is roughly equivalent to a category and functions as a named group that contains one or more items. The following table maps version 6.x features to version 7.0 and 7.5 for designing a catalog.

Version 6.x	Version 7.0 and 7.5	Comment
Design a tree structure	Create a hierarchy of relationships within a customizable product.	The hierarchy defines component relationships rather than being a grouping mechanism. Relationship definition includes cardinality (maximum quantity, minimum quantity, default quantity).
Create a category	Create a relationship.	A relationship is a named part of a customizable product. Relationships contain one or more items.
Add a product to a catalog	Add a product to a relationship.	None.
Set item sequence in a catalog	Set sequence of items in Structure view and sequence of group in Product UI Designer.	None.
Hide items in the catalog	Can hide an item by not adding it to a UI group in the Product UI Designer.	All products included in a customizable product, plus all attributes, resources, and links can be made visible to users.
Show all excluded items	Select UI control in Product UI designer that displays all items.	Excluded items are unavailable.
Create virtual product	Replaced with hidden attributes.	Virtual product functionality can be created by defining product attributes and then marking them hidden. Hidden attributes do not appear in quotes, orders, or agreements.