Edit catalog entries

After you import products and variants, you can add to, edit or delete them.

Properties for products and variants are similar, but pricing and inventory information is only defined for variants. See also: Catalog entry properties

Catalog-specific editing options

The catalog item list has on the top right a Select view with additional editing options. Use these to edit and access the Pricing, Inventory, Categories, or Related Entries views.

Editing multiple catalog entries

You can work with several catalog entries at once by

1. Selecting items.
2. Clicking toolbar buttons, such as cut, copy, paste, or delete.

Sorting catalog entries

Sorting means changing the display order of items in a category. This affects the Catalog view.

Sorting can also change the arrangement of items on your website's pages. When creating your page templates, a developer determines how to arrange the items on a page. Sort order is one option.

To sort catalog entries, follow these steps.

1. Go to the category that contains items you want to sort.
2. Click the Sort button . This enables sort mode.

   When sort mode is enabled, a drag handle appears to the left of every eligible item's check box.

3. Select one or more items whose sort order you want to change.
4. Drag and drop items to the new position.
   Or, to sort a single item, move to its far right, click to open the context menu, and select Move Up or Move Down.

Notes about sorting

• Changing an item's sort order affects it within that category only.
• Sort mode remains enabled until you click the button a second time, even if you go to other categories.
• You cannot sort categories.

Sorting variants

To sort a catalog entry's variants, follow these steps.

1. Select the catalog entry whose variants you want to sort.
2. Click Select view > Variants.

   

3. Drag and drop variants to a new position.

Duplicating catalog entries

You can duplicate an existing entry to create a new entry. If you do, it gets a unique ID, and you can edit the following details. You can then move the new entry to different catalog tree location.

• If you duplicate a category, Optimizely Customized Commerce creates a new code, name in URL, and SEO URL, based on the original. Name, internal name, and content are the same as the original. Sub-entries in the original category, such as products and variants, are not duplicated.
• If you duplicate a product, variant, package, or bundle, Optimizely Customized Commerce creates a new URL name, SEO URL, and product code based on the original. Other information (name, internal name, content, and so on) is the same as the original.

You can duplicate one or several catalog entries. The following example duplicates multiple variants and moves them to a different category.

1. Open the desired catalog or category node, so items you want to duplicate appear in the catalog item list.
2. Pin the catalog tree so it remains open.
3. Select items to be duplicated.
4. Drag selections to the desired catalog tree location.

   

5. The Select Action dialog box appears. Click Duplicate. The selected entries are duplicated in the selected location.

Moving catalog entries

Moving a catalog entry is the same as assigning it to a different primary category. See Changing a catalog entry's primary category.

Deleting catalog entries

When deleting a product or a variant, the following happens depending on how the deleted entry is related to other catalog entries:

• If a product or variant is deleted, all links from other catalog entries to it are removed.
• If a product with associated variants is deleted, the variants are left associated with the deleted product's category.

See also: Deleting a package or bundle

To delete a product or variant, select an item, open its context menu, then click Delete.

To delete multiple catalog entries at the same time, select the entries then click Delete in the toolbar.

Translating catalog entries

Like other types of content, catalog entries can exist in multiple languages. See Multi-language management.