Adding catalog entry description overrides
If your store is an extended sites store, you can use the Catalogs tool to set
store specific catalog entry descriptive information for inherited catalog entries. By setting
store-specific descriptions, you override the inherited asset store descriptions and ensure that
your store-specific descriptions displays in the storefront for your catalog
entries.
Procedure
- In your extended site store, Open the Catalogs tool.
- From the explorer filter, select Master Catalog or Master Catalog Categories.
- Find the inherited catalog entry that contains the descriptive information you want to override.
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Right-click the catalog entry; then click Open.
The properties view for the catalog entry displays.
- Click the Manage Catalog Entry tab for the catalog entry.
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Expand the General Catalog Entry Information section; then set or change
the override fields for the information that displays in the storefront for your extended site
store:
Property Description Name (your extended site store) The name of the catalog entry that displays in the storefront. ShortDescription (your extended site store) Type a brief description of the catalog entry. LongDescription (your extended site store) Type a detailed description, if applicable. Keyword (your extended site store) Keyword that is used for searching. To include keywords, separate the words by commas within double quotation marks. Example "keywords 1, keywords 2, keywords 3". -
Expand the Display section. Complete the following information:
Property Description Thumbnail (your extended site store) Type the path to the thumbnail image and the name of the image, such as images/shirt.jpg. FullImage (your extended site store) Type the path to the full-size image and the name of the image, such as images/shirt.jpg. -
Click Save; then click
Close.
Note: When you do an eSite override for the name, description, keyword, and images fields, the storefront will use the override values. However, deleting these fields prevents it from returning to the catalog asset store's values for these fields, and instead uses the eSite values. This is because the override fields in the index document are not updated when these values are deleted from the eSite. The values for these eSite fields can be changed to a new value, which will be reflected in both the index document and the storefront. To use the catalog asset store's values for these fields again, the user must execute full reindexing, which generates the most recent index document with all fields updated with the correct values.