Rebuilding a Virtual Catalog

You rebuild a virtual catalog after performing the following:

• Including a base catalog, categories, or products.
• Deleting a base catalog that was included in the virtual catalog.
• Adding or deleting categories or products in any included categories.

When you rebuild a virtual catalog, the categories and products are made available to the virtual catalog and you can set price rules.

You must rebuild a virtual catalog each time you add, edit, or delete products and categories.

Note

• Do not rebuild a virtual catalog that is on a production server. Users will not be able to access the catalog. Instead, rebuild virtual catalogs on your staging server only. After the catalogs are materialized, you can replicate them to your production servers without impacting user transactions.

To rebuild a virtual catalog

1. In the Catalogs screen, select the catalog and then click on the toolbar.

   The message, “Catalog Rebuild process has been started successfully…” appears.

2. Click OK, and then click Catalog Editor to refresh the list of catalogs.

   The catalog you selected appears in the list with Up-to-date in the Status section.

   If Rebuilding appears in the Status section, wait for a few seconds, and then click Catalog Editor again.

See Also

Best Practices for Catalogs

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