To create a merchandising association by associating one catalog entry to another, do the following:
- Open the WebSphere Commerce Accelerator. In a hosting scenario, ensure that you open the catalog store, and not the store itself.
From the Merchandise menu, click Find Merchandising Associations.
From the Products menu, click Find Merchandising Associations.
The Catalog Entry Search page displays. If you do not see this menu, then your logon ID does not have the appropriate authority to perform this task. Contact your Site Administrator.- Find a catalog entry for use in a merchandising association.
- Select the source catalog entry.
- If there are no merchandising associations formed with the catalog entry, then 0 is listed in the Targets column.
- If any merchandising associations have already been formed with the source catalog entry, then the number of associations is displayed in the Targets column, and the details are listed in the Target Catalog Entry table.
- From the Target Catalog Entry table, click Add. The Pick List displays.
- Select which catalog entries you want to use as your target catalog entries
for your merchandising association.
Note: If the Pick List table is empty or if you want to select different catalog entries, click Find, which will bring you to the Catalog Entry Search page. After entering your catalog entry search criteria, the search results will be displayed in the Pick List table. - From the Pick List table, click Add to move your selected catalog entries to the Target Catalog Entry table.
- For the target catalog entries, choose the type of merchandising
association by doing the following:
- Select the Association: ACCESSORY, REPLACEMENT, UPSELL, or X-SELL.
- Select the Semantic identifier: REQUIRES, COMES_WITH, NONE, or TEMP.
- Add the number of catalog entries in the Quantity column for the merchandising association.
- Set the Date for the merchandising association.
- Click Save.
Note: If you have based your catalog on the hosted Commerce Plaza sample store catalog, as part of the default behavior you need:
- create an e-Marketing Spot that displays product information
- an initiative scheduled for the e-Marketing Spot