Manage Catalogs

You can edit a catalog after it has been created, using the Manage Functional Area Catalogs task in the Setup and Maintenance work area or the Manage Catalogs task in the Product Information Management work area.

1. Open the Manage Catalogs or Manage Functional Area Catalogs task.

2. Search for the catalog that you want to edit.

3. Click the catalog name link that you want to edit. The Edit Catalog page opens.

4. Make your changes to the catalog, and then save and close the page.

Category Hierarchy Tab

In this tab, you can create and maintain the category hierarchy. In addition, you can assign items, view the usage of the category in other catalog, and edit the descriptive flexfield attributes for the category, catalog, or both.

Selecting a category will open the category detail region. This regions contains three additional tabs for the item category assignments, category details, and category attachments.

Catalog Detail Tab

The Detail tab contains the catalog name and description, an image, the selection of the default category, the start and end date for the catalog and the catalog descriptive flexfields. The start and end date controls the catalog life cycle.

The default category selector is available for all catalogs. Some functional areas support automatic assignment of items to a category. Such functional areas require the default category based on the predefined rules. In addition, you can also add rules to assign the item automatically to a category. In such cases, the functional area may or may not use the default category in the rule.

The Public check box is used to enable data security for catalogs and categories. By default, the Public check box is selected for a new catalog. You can clear the check box to make this catalog private. You can also change a private catalog back to a public catalog by selecting the check box.

Catalog Attachments

The Attachments tab is used to add attachments related to the catalog such as related documents or images.