Partitioning a Category 

Use

If the taxonomy hierarchy does not have enough detail so that too many main table records are assigned to a particular leaf-node category, you can partition it into multiple child categories according to the values of a specified single-valued text attribute.

When you use the Partition command to partition a leaf-node category, MDM does the following:

·        Creates a child category for each value of the selected text attribute (figure below).

·        Reassigns each record that was previously assigned to the original category to one of the new children based on its value for the partitioning attribute.

If any product assigned to the original leaf-node category has no value for the partitioning attribute, the system creates an internal leaf node category and assigns the product to it.

Procedure

To partition a category:

       1.      In the taxonomy tree, select the leaf-node category you want to partition.

       2.      Right-click on the category and choose Partition from the context menu, or choose Tree ® Partition from the main menu.

       3.      Select the attribute on which to partition the selected category from the cascading menu of single-valued text attributes that are linked directly to the selected category.

MDM adds one child node for each value of the selected attribute.

Partition Category Constraints

Operation	Constraints
Partition Category	·        Must be in Taxonomy mode ·        Tree must have focus ·        Root node cannot be partitioned ·        Node cannot have children ·        Node cannot have a matching set ·        Node must have at least one linked single-valued text attribute with at least one domain value