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Oct 03, 2006 at 04:14 PM

CCM Create a second Master Catalog impact on old templates

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We currently have in production a supplier catalog that contains material master items. They are mapped to the MASTER_CATALOG and the master catalog has been published.

We now want to replace the supplier catalog by a Product Catalog (SRM_EXTRACTED_CTLG). If we take the approach to delete the supplier catalog, load the product catalog, map it to the master catalog and then publish the master catalog, we would need to stop the users from shopping for a large period of time (i.e. Delete takes 8 hours, Load takes 8 hours and publish takes 6 hours).

We have tested the following approach and it works well:

1-Change in SPRO (Specify Settings for Master Catalog ID and Fuzzy Search), the name of the Master Catalog to something else. This converts the current master catalog to a procurement catalog. However, the current master catalog is still published and is accessed within SRM shopping carts.

2-Create the Product Catalog and map to new Master Catalog

3-Publish the new Master Catalog. At this point there are two master catalogs published. The Integrated Call Structure in config still points to the old one.

4-Modify the Integrated Call structure to now point to the new published master catalog. The shopping carts now refer to the new master catalog.

5-Delete the Supplier Catalog and Delete the old Master Catalog

This approach will allow us to prepare everything ahead of time and then the downtime is not even necessary as changing config for the call structure is a 5 minute job.

We only have one concern with this approach. Since SRM and CCM store data using GUIDs, we are not sure what the full impact is on copying old templates containing material masters. Because the GUID of the published Catalog changes, will the copy old templates function work and will it pick up the latest information from the new published catalog? Does anyone have the full undertstanding of the Globally Unique identifier?

Thanks,

Elvira