Associating Products with Subcategories in Drill Categories

For Web Commerce Level 2 sites, use drill categories, or drill downs, and subcategories to organize the products you offer for sale on your web site. Associate products with the last subcategory in a drill path. Your customers can find the products they want by clicking the preceding category and subcategories. For example, your customers may click Electrical Products, then Electrical Sundries to see a list of sundry products like couplings, clamps, and connectors.

You can associate products using the following:

Product families
Keywords
Product Data Warehouse (PDW) Meta IDs

To associate products with a subcategory:

Display the WOE Drill Down Maintenance screen in one of the following ways:

For ...	From the...
a company-wide subcategory	System > Custom > Web Commerce > Web Drill Maintenance menu, select WOE Drill Down Maintenance.
a customer-specific subcategory	Files menu, select Customer. With a customer displayed, use the Remote hot key, then the WOE Info hot key, and then the WOE Drills hot key.

Selecting a product category and use the Expand hot key to display a second WOE Drill Down Maintenance screen.

The selected product category displays at the top of the screen, with subcategories below.

Select a subcategory and use the Expand hot key to display a second WOE Drill Down Maintenance screen.

The selected category displays at the top of the screen. If you are at the end of a drill path with meta items assigned, the WOE Drill Meta Information Maintenance screen displays.

Use the Meta Information hot key to display the WOE Drill Meta Information Maintenance screen.

The selected subcategory displays at the top of the screen, with meta information below.

In the Meta ID field enter the Eclipse product number, family, keyword, or PDW Meta ID of the product you want to assign to the subcategory. The system displays the other field information.

For a...	Enter an...	The system displays...
Product family	ampersand (&) followed by all or part of the family name.	The product family description and ID. All products in the product family are associated with this product subcategory. Note: To display a product family in Web Commerce, set the Branch/Territory field on the Product Family Maintenance screen to All.
Keyword	exclamation point (!) followed by the keyword.	The keyword in the Meta ID field and the actual keyword in the Values field. All products with this keyword in their product description are associated with this product subcategory.
PDW Meta ID	meta ID proceeded by a period (.).	The Meta ID and Meta Description. All products in the PDW using this Meta ID are associated with this product subcategory.

Use the Multiple Values hot key to save, clear, or recall a list of items comprising a Meta ID field entry.

Note: When entering an exact meta ID, for example, .2345, the system validates the entry. It does not accept your entry if it cannot validate it.

Repeat steps 4 and 5 to associate additional products with the subcategory.
Press Esc to return to the WOE Drill Down Maintenance screen.
Use the Re-Build Cache hot key to calculate the number of products in the subcategory.

This number displays in parentheses next to the subcategory name, when it is listed on the main shopping cart page of your web site.