The Catalogue Page

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Overview

 

The Catalogue page of Supplier Portal enables you to produce and manage Electronic Catalogues (or e-Catalogues). e-Catalogues are text files that define the products and services (called "Items" in this documentation) that you sell to buying organisations.

 

To load the Catalogue page at any time:

 

Do-it Click the Catalogue_Option_select option in the main menu.  The Catalogue page will display (as shown below):

 

catalogue_Main_Page

 

The Catalogue Explorer window contains a tree structure of all catalogues linked to their relevant buying organisations.

 

Do-it Click the expand icon(s), if necessary, to expand the tree structure in the Catalogue explorer window.

 

Catalogue_list

 

This expanded view shows the catalogues that have been created, and the buying organisations that have been linked to these catalogues.

 

The contents of the each catalogue can be viewed by clicking on the name of the buying organisation e.g. 'SP Trading PLC'

 

When the buying organisation is clicked on, the contents of the currently loaded catalogue is displayed on the left of the page.

 

Catalogue_selected_contents

 

The catalogue options menu will be displayed towards the top-right of the page.

 

Catalogue_controls

 

These options perform the following tasks:

 

Bullet View

Displays a list of items in the catalogue (see Reviewing Existing Catalogue Content) and from this selected items may be updated (see Editing an Existing Catalogue Item) or deleted (see Deleting a Single Catalogue Item)

Bullet Add

Allows a new item to be added to the catalogue (see Adding a New Catalogue Product)

 

Bullet MultiEdit        

Enables a user to edit multiple catalogue items simultaneously (see Multiple Editing of Catalogue Items)

 

Bullet Import

Imports a file containing catalogue items, adding the items to the catalogue (see Importing a New Catalogue)

 

Bullet Export

Exports the current catalogue to a file (see Exporting a Catalogue)

 

Bullet Delete All

Deletes all items from the catalogue (see Deleting All Catalogue Products)

 

Bullet Build and Validate

Allows a user to validate catalogue contents, create a catalogue build file, and also view (and open) all previously built catalogues (see Building & Validating a Catalogue)