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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.
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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 categories
The Category Manager manages the category hierarchy by creating, modifying, and deleting categories. The category hierarchy organizes products or services offered by the store.
Hiding categories
You can hide a category in your catalog so that it does not display to customers, for example, if the category contains out-of-season merchandise. If you hide a category, the products and SKUs within that category can still be found in a sales catalog or during a search. To hide the products or SKUs, you must clear the Display to customers check box in the product or SKU properties views.

Hiding categories

You can hide a category in your catalog so that it does not display to customers, for example, if the category contains out-of-season merchandise. If you hide a category, the products and SKUs within that category can still be found in a sales catalog or during a search. To hide the products or SKUs, you must clear the Display to customers check box in the product or SKU properties views.

Procedure

Open the Catalogs tool.
In the explorer view, find the category that you want to hide.
On the Manage Category tab. Expand the Display section; then clear the Display to customers check box.
The category is now hidden from customers.
Click Save; then click Close.