Cluster Hierarchy File

The cluster hierarchy is an internal application-specific hierarchy used to provide unique cluster IDs to be used during Location Clustering. It needs to be populated with unique cluster IDs (which need to be same as Store Identifiers) used in the Location hierarchy file. There is an OAT process available to synchronize this hierarchy whenever the location hierarchy file is loaded. It can also be scheduled to run on-demand, so retailers do not have to maintain this hierarchy.

Name	Label	Hierarchy Type	Aggs
CLUS	Cluster	Main	None
CHN1	Cluster Channel	Main	CLUS

File name: clrh.hdr.csv.dat

File format: comma-separated values file

The following table describes the fields in this file.

Field	Description
Cluster	This is the unique Cluster identifiers from the Location hierarchy but with the label as '.'. The label is created dynamically and mapped to the unique ID present in this file through the Store Clustering process. The number of positions here represents the maximum pool of cluster positions available.
Cluster Channel	Channel below which the Clusters will be created. This Channel should have the same CHNC (Channel) values in the Location Hierarchy.

Example:

clus,clus_label,chn1,chn1_label
1000,.,1,Brick & Mortar
1001,.,1,Brick & Mortar
1002,.,1,Brick & Mortar
1003,.,1,Brick & Mortar
1004,.,1,Brick & Mortar