| Data Management |
- Extensible catalog schema. Extend the Catalog database schema by creating your own
custom properties for product and category definitions.
- Catalog definition management. Create, edit, retrieve, and delete definitions for
products and categories.
- Catalog schema management. Create, edit, retrieve, and delete property metadata. Bulk
data update.
- Perform bulk updates and deletes of properties for multiple products or categories by
specifying an expression or a dataset.
- Full-text search. Enhanced full-text searches that support inflectional, weighted, and
proximity searches.
- Catalog hierarchies and product sequencing. Manage the display order of products and
categories by specifying the hierarchy of categories and catalogs and the order of
products and categories.
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| Virtual Catalog |
- Virtual catalog management. Create virtual catalogs from aggregates of base catalogs
to create, for example, a spring sale catalog or to display prices in a different
currency such as euros.
- Virtual catalog properties and ranking. Modify the virtual catalog properties, rank
products, categories, and variants in a virtual catalog.
- Virtual catalog views. Create a virtual catalog by aggregating two or more virtual
catalogs into another virtual catalog.
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| Application Programming Interfaces |
- Catalog API. Create, modify, extend, and manage catalog data programmatically.
- Web Service and Agent API. Perform distributed management of the Catalog and Inventory
System programmatically.
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| Applications |
- Catalog Manager. Manage catalogs by using the new Windows Forms-based Web
service.
- Catalog and Inventory Schema Manager. Manage inventory metadata and SKUs by using the
new Windows Forms-based Web service.
- Catalog import and export. Import and export catalogs to business user desktops by
using a new Web service/agent.
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| Staging |
- Base and virtual catalogs, catalog sets, and full-text index staging. Choose which
catalogs to update, whether to update base/dependent catalogs, virtual catalogs, and/or
catalog sets, and whether to generate a full-text index update.
- Property and language. Choose the catalog properties and languages to stage.
- Customized expression-based staging. Define the parts of a catalog to stage by
specifying filter and hierarchy criteria.
- Catalog definitions/schema staging. Choose to update catalog schema.
- Full or incremental updates. Choose whether to stage all data or only data that has
changed since the last catalog was staged.
- Transactional or non-transactional. Existing catalog data is not changed in the event
an error condition occurs during staging.
- Refresh catalog cache. Choose to refresh the data cache on the Web site cache after
updating catalog data.
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| Command Line tools |
- Import tool. Import catalog data.
- Export tool. Export catalog data
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| Formats |
- Catalog XSD. Use the XSD format for standards-based representation of catalogs.
- XML import/export modes. Perform parameterized import and export of catalog data.
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| LOB Support |
- BizTalk Adapter for Catalog. Exchange catalog data with external systems
programmatically.
- Synchronization. Synchronize any line-of-business system with catalog data on the
production server.
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| Security |
- Granular security. Use Windows Authorization Manager scopes, roles, tasks, and
operations to manage access to the Catalog System.
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| Supportability |
- Catalog pipeline performance counters. Record events associated with the run-time
performance of the Catalog System pipeline components, such as number of catalog lookups
performed, average catalog lookup time, and more.
- Catalog run-time performance counters. Record events associated with the run-time
performance of the Catalog System Web service, such as total number of product searches
using free text search, average time to perform Product searches using free text search,
and more.
- Catalog management-time performance counters. Record events associated with the
management-time performance of the Catalog System, such as total catalog updates
performed, average time per catalog update request, number of catalog updates per second,
and more.
- Windows Event Tracing. Use to help with troubleshooting.
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