How to Create Category Associations

You can specify parent and child category associations. You can create a category that has parent categories or child categories, or both. For example, the category CDs can have the child categories Rock, Rhythm and Blues, and Classical. The child categories can also contain child categories of their own. For example, the category Rock can contain the child categories Pop and Alternative.

To create a category association

1. Click Start, point to Microsoft Commerce Server 2009 , and then click Catalog Manager.

2. In the Catalog Manager, in the Views pane, click Catalogs.

3. In the Catalogs pane, select the catalog and the category to which you want to create a category association.

4. In the Task pane, click Edit Category Properties.

5. In the <Category Name> screen, on the Category Associations tab, do the following:

   Use this	To do this
   Primary category	Select the primary category from the drop-down list. Each category can have one primary parent category. The primary parent category provides a canonical path of a child category or product. If a product is in more than one category, and pricing is set at the category level, the price of the primary parent category overrides the price in all other categories that are using category pricing.
   Parent categories	Select to specify a parent category association.
   Child categories	Select to specify a child category association.

6. To add more category associations, click Add to open the Product Picker dialog box; otherwise, click Save and close on the toolbar.

7. In the Product Picker dialog box, search for the category(s) you want for the association.

8. In the Results pane, select the category(s), and then click OK.

9. Click Save and close on the toolbar.

See Also

Other Resources

Managing Categories

What is a Category?

How to Add a Category to a Catalog

Managing Tasks Common to All Business Management Applications