Adding promotions and subfolders to a folder

You can include promotions or subfolders within a parent folder to improve the organization of your store promotions.

Before you begin

HCL Commerce Enterprise If you are using extended sites, ensure that you understand how folders work in extended sites. For more information, see Folders in extended sites.

About this task

You can use Management Center to include only promotions within a parent folder. To add a subfolder to a parent folder, a Site Administrator must use SQL statements.

You can use Management Center to include promotions or subfolders within a parent folder.

Procedure

Open the Promotions tool.
Open Management Center tools and from the left navigation menu, click Business tools > Promotions > Promotions.
In the explorer view, expand Promotions.
Click the folder that you want to add a promotion or subfolder within.
The contents of the folder displays in the main work area.
Tip: You can view a list of promotions or a list of subfolders within the folder or directory. Click the Show Promotions List or Show Promotion Folders List.
Use the utilities view to find the promotion or subfolder that you want to include in the folder. Drag the promotion or folder from the utilities view into the promotion folder.
- Promotion
  - A dialog opens. Choose an option:
    
    Add
    
    Adds a shared reference of the promotion to the parent folder. Any change to this promotion causes all shared references of the promotion to be changed as well.
    
    Copy
    
    Clones a new promotion or folder in the selected parent folder. This new promotion or folder contains the same properties of the original copy. Any changes to this copy do not affect the original promotion or folder. If you select to copy a promotion or folder, the object properties view opens for editing. Change the properties for the promotion or folder if necessary, and save your changes.
  - The promotion is added to the folder. Changes to this promotion change the promotion in all folders that include the promotion.
- Folder
  
  Copy
  
  This folder contains the same promotions as the original. The subfolders in the original and the promotions within the subfolders are not copied. Any changes to the clone do not affect the original folder. The object properties view opens for editing. Change the properties if necessary, and save your changes.
  
  Move
  
  The folder and all of its contents are moved to the new parent.
  Note: You cannot move a subfolder to make the subfolder a top-level folder. To make a subfolder a top-level folder, you must remove the entry in the parent folder table within the properties view for the subfolder.
  
  A folder can contain multiple subfolders, but a subfolder can have only one parent folder. You cannot have multiple subfolders with the same name in a folder.
Click Save. Verify that your added promotion or subfolder displays in the parent folder.