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Step 3: Rebuilding and refreshing your virtual catalog

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When you make changes to a virtual catalog, such as adding a base catalog, categories, or products, or editing one of the included base catalogs, you must rebuild the virtual catalog. Because you have added new categories to the Office Supplies and Office Machines base catalogs, you must now rebuild your virtual catalog.

To rebuild your virtual catalog

  1. In the Catalogs module, click Catalog Editor.

    The Catalogs screen appears.

    note Notes

    • In the Catalogs screen, notice that "Requires rebuilding" appears in the Status column of the Virtual Catalog row. This indicates that the virtual catalog needs to be rebuilt.
    • When you rebuild a virtual catalog, any changes that were made to the base catalogs, which are contained by the virtual catalog, are also rebuilt.

  2. Select Virtual Catalog and click rebuild to rebuild the catalogs and publish them to your site.

  3. In the Business Desk: Rebuild Catalog dialog box, click OK to close the dialog box and continue.

    In the Catalogs screen, in the Status column for the Virtual Catalog row the status displayed is "Rebuilding."

  4. To refresh the screen, in the Catalogs module, click Catalog Editor.

    The screen is refreshed and the status message for Virtual Catalog changes to "Up-to-date".

  5. To refresh your base catalogs, click Refresh on the toolbar.

    The message "Refreshing Catalogs" appears.

When the refresh is complete, proceed to Lesson 5: Creating Catalog Sets.

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