Configuring Product Catalog Staging 

Use

You make the necessary settings to use the product catalog staging in CRM Web Channel B2B and B2C Web shops. In Extended Configuration Management (XCM), for productive Web shops, you can specify application configurations that always use active catalog variant versions. Additionally, you can define application configurations that allow selection of active, inactive, or obsolete versions of a catalog variant for a preview in the Web shop.

Prerequisites

●      You have selected how you want to index the product catalog variant and have made the necessary settings in Customizing for Customer Relationship Management, by choosing Master Data ® Product Catalog ® Define Catalog Variant Indexing.

●      You have defined the RFC destinations for the initial- or delta indexing of the product catalog variant in Customizing for Customer Relationship Management, by choosing Master Data ® Product Catalog ® Maintain IMS Server for Catalog Indexing.

●      The product catalog variant that you use in the Web shop has been successfully indexed to the TREX server.

Procedure

To enable product catalog staging in your Web shop you need to make the following settings in Extended Configuration Management (XCM) for your Web shop.

       1.      Log on to Extended Configuration Management (XCM) at:

http://<servername:port>/<b2c or b2b>/admin/xcm/init.do

       2.      Choose Start ® Components ® Customer ® webcatalog and create your own component configuration for inactive catalog variants.

       3.      Select Active or Inactive in the dropdown box of the parameter catalogstatus under Component Configuration Details.

       4.      Assign the component configuration to the application configuration.