How to Create Category and Product Relationships
You can create product-to-product relationships, product-to-category relationships, category-to-category relationships, and category-to-product relationships. These relationships can be to products and categories in the same catalog, or in different catalogs. For example, in a product-to-product relationship, if you have a customer who buys a movie, you may want to offer the customer the soundtrack to the movie. This is an explicit relationship.
In a category-to-category relationship, you can have a relationship between categories. For example, if you have CDs by classical composers, you may also have biographies of classical composers. You may have categories for CDs (by classical composers) and Biographies (of classical composers).
To create category/product relationships
Click Start, point to Microsoft Commerce Server 2009 , and then click Catalog Manager.
In the the Catalog Manager, in the Views pane, click Catalogs.
In the Catalogs pane, select the catalog and the category to which you want to create a category relationship.
In the Task pane, click Edit Category Properties.
In the <Category Name> screen, on the Category Relationships tab, click Add to open the Product Picker dialog box.
In the Product Picker dialog box, search for the category or product you want for the relationship.
In the Results pane, select the category or product, and then click OK.
Click Save and close on the toolbar.
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