Global Settings

Global Catalog Group Management

Instead of using a standard vendor’s catalog, you can design custom catalogs, containing items of your choice. Once the custom catalog is assembled you can assign it to your shoppers. Since you can create as many different custom catalogs as needed, this tool offers increased sales flexibility. By creating custom catalogs, you can limit the number of global catalogs your site uses. This speeds up the catalog search results, and prevents overloading the servers. In the Global Catalog Group Management page, you can easily determine which catalog(s) have been identified as the global catalog option. If you need to change your global catalog, contact your system support team.

Using this page, you can view and edit site global catalog groups. While similar to global catalog groups, site catalog groups can have different catalogs available. When using site catalog groups, only catalogs whose providers are authorized to the site and enhanced content provider (ECP) hosted catalogs assigned to the site can be selected. It is important to remember the ECP-hosted catalogs are not custom catalogs. They represent global catalogs hosted by the ECP. You have the option of creating a site catalog group with the ECP-hosted catalogs as part of the group if the site is authorized to access the catalogs.

Note: This page lets you set filters to limit the information. To set a filter, click to the right of the box and select a filter from the drop down box. For more details, see Filtering Information.

You can click any heading to resort the grid. Click to update the page.

1. Click the Product Management training toolbar and click Global Catalog Group Management. You can also click Global Settings and select Global Catalog Group Management.

2. The page defaults to display the global catalog groups. The Global GCGs option is selected. Click beside the catalog group to determine which catalogs and/or flyers are associated with that group. To change your global catalog, contact your system support team.

3. To view and edit your site global catalog groups, click the Site GCGs option. Any groups you currently have added appear in a list.
   Click to the left of the site group to view a list of catalogs associated with the group. Click to hide the catalogs again.
   
   Click to edit existing site group catalogs. You can select or de-select catalogs for the site group. When finished, click .
   
   Click  to delete a site group. At the Are You Sure prompt, click OK.
   
   Click Add New Group. To add a new site global catalog group:

1. Click the Catalog Group Name box and enter the name to use.

2. Click the check box corresponding to the catalog to use for this group name. You can select as many as needed.

3. When finished, click . The text Change Has Been Accepted, Catalog Combination Index Will Be Regenerated and Effective the Following Day appears. To immediately view the index status, you can click the Index Status link.

4. To specify a default site group, click the down arrow in the list and click the Set as Default Group button. The default setting is saved.