Lesson 3: Importing a Catalog

Scenario: You need to import your main base catalog (Adventure Works) into Business Desk so you can publish the catalog to your Web site and test the site as an online shopper. In Business Desk, you use the Catalog Editor module to work with categories and catalogs. You can create new categories, modify and delete categories, and delete catalogs.

You can import a catalog from either an Extensible Markup Language (XML) file or a comma-separated value (.csv) file.

In this lesson, you will import the AdvWorksCatalog.xml catalog file. Then you will test your Web site—you will visit your Web site and perform a free-text search to find shoes and related products. After you find a product that matches your search criteria, you will add it to your shopping basket and check out.

In this lesson, you will perform the following steps:

• Step 1: Importing the Adventure Works catalog
• Step 2: Refreshing and publishing your catalog
• Step 3: Finding shoes using free-text search
• Step 4: Ordering shoes on the site

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