Viewing Attribute Usage 

Procedure

To see which categories have a particular attribute linked to them (“attribute usage”):

       1.      In the Attributes pane, select the attribute whose usage you want to see.

       2.      Click on the Usage tab (to the right of the Attribute Detail tab).

       3.      The Usage tab contains a partial version of the category tree that includes the following:

○       All of its nodes expanded

○       Just enough tree structure to display those nodes to which the attribute is linked in black

○       All other nodes highlighted in gray (figure below).

When you move the mouse pointer over a node to which the attribute is linked, MDM highlights the name of the node in bold. If you click on a bold node name, MDM will immediately change the selected category to that node in the taxonomy tree.

The Usage tab makes it easy to detect errors in your taxonomy, when attributes that should not be linked to a category show up in the hierarchy of category links.