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The information contained in this section applies to IBM WebSphere Commerce Version 7.0.0.9 and Feautre Pack 8. The documentation also applies to all subsequent releases and modifications until otherwise indicated in new editions.
Operating
IBM Management Center for WebSphere Commerce
The IBM Management Center for WebSphere Commerce, or Management Center, is a suite of tools to support store management, merchandising, and marketing tasks for business users (Sellers, Marketing Managers, Product Managers, Catalog Managers, and others).
Catalogs tool
Use the Catalogs tool in Management Center to manage catalogs, categories, catalog entries, merchandising associations, product attributes, and attachments in your store. The Catalogs tool lets business users create, and manage online catalogs. Catalogs provide a way of organizing the products that you want to sell. You define catalog data in groups of categories and products. Catalog data contains descriptions and pricing information for products and services.
Working with catalogs
The Category Manager or Product Manager manages the catalog hierarchy by creating, modifying, and deleting catalogs for stores. There are two types of catalogs: master catalogs and sales catalogs.
Working with sales catalogs
The Category Manager manages the category hierarchy by creating, modifying, and deleting categories in sales catalogs.
Adding multiple parent categories to a child category
You can add more than one parent category to a child category within the same sales catalog. For example, in a seasonal clothing sales catalog, the hats category can belong to both the winter clothing and accessories parent categories.

Introduced in Feature Pack 1

Adding multiple parent categories to a child category

You can add more than one parent category to a child category within the same sales catalog. For example, in a seasonal clothing sales catalog, the hats category can belong to both the winter clothing and accessories parent categories.

Procedure

Open the Catalogs tool.
From the explorer filter, select Sales Catalog Categories.
Select the child category in the explorer tree.
Note: The child and parent categories must belong to the same sales catalog.
Right-click the child category and click Open.
The child category properties view is displayed.
Add the parent category to the child category using one of the following ways:
- Select the parent category from the explorer view, and drag it to the Parent table in the Sales Categories Parents section.
- Scroll to the Sales Categories Parents section. To add a new parent, click the Show utilities view. Browse for the new parent category and drag it to the Parent table.
Repeat this step to add another parent to the child category.
Click Save; then click Close.
You can browse the child category from any one of the parent categories.