Navigating in the Catalog Manager

To access the Catalog Manager screen from the opentaps Main Navigation page,

Click: Catalog Icon, the Catalog Manager Application, Main page opens.

The Main page is shown in the figure. This page present five navigation boxes and the top bar contains ten drop down menu items. These link to the four major building blocks of the Catalog Manager function, plus many screens used to define the business methods that are used in conjunction with them.

The Four Major Building Blocks

The five navigation boxes on this page provide access to three of the major building blocks of the Catalog:

• The Products Pages
• The Catalog Pages
• The Category Pages

The fourth major building block of the Catalog Manager is accessed via the drop down menu in the top horizontal bar labeled "Catalog Manager Application":

• The Stores

Eight Component Configuration Pages

In the drop down navigation box are found several of the component definition pages, for describing some of the basic elements that are used in configuring higher level functionality:

• The Component Building Block Elements
  • Features -- for defining Features that are applied to various products
  • Promotions -- for defining Promotions that are applied to sales orders
  • Price Rules -- for defining pricing rules that are defined to product orders in the store
  • Thesaurus -- for defining search terms
  • Reviews -- for managing customer reviews on the web site
  • Configurations -- for defining components used in configurable products
  • Subscriptions --
  • Shipping -- for defining shipping methods available in the store

Using the Five Main Page Navigation Boxes

The five navigation boxes on the main page provide alternate ways to access the products, catalogs, categories and stores which already exist, or to create new ones.

Search Products Box

• Find a product by entering a part of it's name or product ID, or also include the category to further filter results of the search.

• In Advanced Search enter information about the product, or use the lookup widget to find search criteria. Then use the Product Jump drop down box to go to any of the product sub-tabs for specific details about the selected product.

Browse Catalogs Box

This box contains a list of the catalogs currently defined in the system.

• Click the Catalog Name to see a list of the top level Categories it contains immediately below the name.
  • Click any item in the top level Categories listed to see the details page for that Category.
  • Look in the Browse Categories Box immediately below to see all of the sub-categories defined for the top level category you clicked. If there are no sub-categories the name of the top level is repeated in the Browse Categories Box.

For more information, continue to "drill down" in the items listed in the Browse Categories Box below.

Browse Categories Box

The items in this box are sub-Categories of a selected item in the Browse Catalogs Box - Top Level Categories list, as explained in the last section.

• Click any item in the sub-categories listed in the Browse Categories Box to open the sub-category details page.
  • When you click a sub-category item listed, any further sub-categories below it will then open also, and you can continue to drill down to the lower sub-categories if there are any more.
  • Clicking any item opens it's details page, and further lists any sub-categories it may have, also.

• If there are Products in any sub-Category you click in the Browse Categories Box, items, when you click the Category item all of the included Products will be listed in the Products From this Category Box immediately below.

Continue to the Products From this Category Box for more information.