Example of Reusing a Sales Catalog

This example demonstrates how you can reuse a sales catalog. After creating a catalog for a business that sells chairs and sofas, you get a call from another division of the company that wants a similar catalog with the same look-and-feel.

You find that this division needs the products in the Chair category of your existing catalog, so you can reuse this category instead of creating a new catalog.

Note: To complete this task, an application developer must create an application that can use the sales catalog task flows, just like sales uses the task flows provided by the sales catalog team.

Prerequisite

You can select only product groups that are catalogs themselves. In other words, the catalog must be a root catalog. You realize the Chairs group is a category of your larger catalog, so you must make it a root catalog as a prerequisite to reusing the category.

1. On the Manage Product Groups page, in the product group list, select Chairs.

2. In the Details tab, select the Root Catalog check box.

3. Save and publish the catalog.

Reuse the Sales Catalog

1. On the Manage Product Group Usage page, create a new usage and name it the Call Center Division usage.

2. Click the Product Groups subtab.

3. In the Manage Product Groups Usage page, add the product group Chairs to the new usage that you created.

   The Chairs catalog is now available for the Call Center Division.