Refreshing and Publishing a Catalog

You use the Catalog Editor module to update your site with new information that you have added to your Web site. In most e-commerce businesses, these changes are first made to a test site, and then at scheduled times, the changes are published to a production site. Contact your system administrator for information about when and how changes are made to your production site.

When you refresh and publish a catalog, you also automatically update the full-text index. The full-text index is that portion of a catalog that stores all of the full-text words and their locations for a given table. When you change a catalog (such as adding or removing products, or changing the values of free text searchable fields), you must update the full-text index to reflect the changes so the search features work correctly.

To refresh and publish your catalogs

1. In Catalogs, click CatalogEditor.
2. In the Catalogs screen, click on the toolbar.

Your updated catalogs are published on your Web site, and then all catalog caches are refreshed.

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