Copying Catalog Areas 

Use

You can copy individual catalog areas both within the product catalog and from other product catalogs.

The system determines which products from the source catalog should be transferred to the target catalog.

Only products that belong to at least one of the distribution chains of the target catalog are permitted. See Product Catalog Variants.

Prerequisites

You have created a product catalog and corresponding catalog areas.

The copying of catalog areas from a catalog with manual product assignment to a catalog area with automatic product assignment is not possible. If you wish to copy anyway, change the catalog type of the target catalog in Customizing. Path in IMG: Customer Relationship Management ® Master Data ® Product Catalog ® Define Catalog Types

For further information on catalog types and product assignment, see Assigning Products and Catalog Types.

Procedure

If you want to copy a catalog area within a product catalog:

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       1.      Choose Customer Relationship Management ® Master Data and Generic Services ® Product Catalog ® Maintain Product Catalog.

       2.      Select the corresponding product catalog.

       3.      In the structure tree of the product catalog, select the area that you want to copy. Choose Copy. Alternatively, you can execute this command using the right mouse button.

       4.      Choose Insert.

Select follow up area, if you want to copy the area to the same level.

Select subarea, if you want to copy the area to a lower level.

 

If you want to copy a catalog area from another product catalog:

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       1.      In the user menu, select Edit ® Copy from another catalog.

       2.      Select the corresponding product catalog.

       3.      The chosen product catalog is displayed in the right window.

       4.      Select the areas that you want to copy.

       5.      You can pull the areas using Drag and Drop to the appropriate levels of your product catalog. Alternatively, you select the level that you want to copy, and the level that you want to copy it to and choose Copy.

       6.      The area is copied to the corresponding level of your product catalog.

       7.      In the right window, choose Cancel to stop the copying.

You return to the product catalog administration view.

Result

If the description is already in the catalog, the copied catalog area has a counter with the character "~" as a description.

To change the description, select the copied area with a double click in the structure tree and change the description in the catalog area.