Creating Drill Category Templates

For Web Commerce Level 2 sites, use drill categories, or drill downs, to organize the products you offer for sale on your web site. Use WOE Drill Down Template Maintenance to categorize products that you can use for a group of customers who order similar products. For example, create a list of products to display in the Products column of your web site that contains those items your plumbing customers by most often. Templates are constructed from drill categories and subcategories created in WOE Drill Down Maintenance.

To create a drill category template:

  1. Display the character-based system.

Note:The drill category template functionality has not been incorporated into Solar Eclipse as of this release.

  1. From the System > System Programming > Add-On Products > Web Commerce menu, select Web Drill Template Maint to display the WOE Drill Template Maintenance screen.

  2. In the Template Name field, enter New.

  3. At the prompt, enter a name, up to 20 characters, that describes the types of products listed in the template, such as Plumbing.

  4. In the ID field, enter one of the following:

The system populates the ID field and the Description field with the selected drill down path.

  1. Press Esc to save the template.

To associate a drill category template with a customer:

  1. From the Maintenance menu, select Customer and display a customer record.

  2. From the Orders menu, select Remote Order Entry Parameters to display the Remote Order Entry Parameters window.

  3. From the Edit menu, select WOE Information to display the B2B/WOE Remote Order Entry Parameters window.

  4. In the Display ID field, enter the template name to display for this customer.

  5. Save your changes and exit the customer record..

See Also:

Creating Drill Categories

Product Drill Categories Overview