Publish An Internal Catalog
Publish An Internal Catalog
In the Show list, choose Catalogs to Be Published to display the list of all unpublished
catalogs.
Note
You can publish any catalog except catalogs that have the In Process import status.
Choose the catalog that you want to publish and click Edit to open the Catalog editor.
Note
Alternatively, you can select the catalog from the worklist in the Catalogs view and click
Publish without going into the catalog editor.
Once you have clicked Publish, and if the catalog is stuck in publishing with the
publication status In Process; you can reset the status of catalog by clicking Rollback
Publishing. This will release any lock for that catalog, and change the publication status
of the catalog to Failed.
In the Show list, choose Catalogs to Be Published to display the list of all the
unpublished catalogs.
Note
You can also publish a supplier catalog by selecting the catalog and clicking Publish.
Choose the catalog you want to publish and click Edit to open the Supplier Catalog
screen.
Note
You can only publish a catalog with an import status of Successful. You can check the
import status of a supplier catalog in the Catalogs view, under Import Status. If the
import status is Failed, Not Started or In Process, the supplier catalog has not
completed importing a catalog file and cannot yet be published.
In the Supplier Catalog editor, click Imported Products to open the Imported Products
view.
View detailed information on the products in the catalog and check or remove any
unwanted product categories or products.
Under Product Categories, select a product and view detailed information in the
Products table.
Under Product Categories, select a category and click Remove to remove a product
category from the catalog.
Under Products, select an individual product and click Remove to remove an individual
product from the catalog.
In the Supplier Catalog screen, click Save to save the updated catalog and then click
Publish to publish the updated catalog.
The catalog is added to the Published Catalogs list in the Catalogs view. To open the
supplier catalog from the list, click the appropriate catalog ID link.
Once you have clicked Publish, and if the catalog is stuck in publishing with the
publication status In Process; you can reset the status of catalog by clicking Rollback
Publishing. This will release any lock for that catalog, and change the publication status
of the catalog to Failed.
This task allows you to define recommended items in published catalogs for employees
who use self-service shopping.
Start the Define Recommended Items common task, which belongs to the Product
Portfolio work center.
On the Search Catalog screen, search for the products that you want to recommend.
These products may be found in supplier, custom, or external catalogs.
You can also browse through the category index to find an item.
Click Transfer Selected Items to list the selected items in the Define Recommended
Items activity. The system returns you to the Define Recommended Items activity where
the chosen items are visible in the list.
In the Define Recommended Items activity, click Submit to save the recommended
items and then click Close to return to the Catalogs view.
The recommended items are now on the Recommended Items list. To find these items,
go to the Home work center, choose the Self-Services view, then choose the Go
Shopping activity.