Work with relationship definitions
The Relationships Definitions business tool enables you to create custom relationships, such as upsell or cross-sell relationships, between catalogs, categories, and sellable items.
You must be assigned to the Relationship Administrator role to create a relationship definition.
Create a relationship definition
You can create a custom relationship definition to address specific business requirements.
To create a relationship definition:
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In the left navigation pane, click Relationship Definitions to open the Relationship Definitions dashboard.
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In the Entities section of the Relationship Definitions dashboard, click a relationship type:
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To create a new relationship definition for a catalog entity, click Sitecore.Commerce.Plugin.Catalog.Catalog,Sitecore.Commerce.Plugin.Catalog.
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To create a new relationship definition for a category entity, click Sitecore.Commerce.Plugin.Catalog.Category,Sitecore.Commerce.Plugin.Catalog.
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To create a new relationship definition for a category entity, click Sitecore.Commerce.Plugin.Catalog.SellableItem,Sitecore.Commerce.Plugin.Catalog.
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In the Relationship Definitions section of the relationship entity details page, click +.
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In the Add Relationship Definition dialog box, enter a name and display name. The description is optional.
NoteEnsure to conform to this naming convention when providing a Name for your custom relationship definition.
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Select the target type from the Target Type drop-down list.
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If you want a list of related entities to be automatically rendered on the Merchandising dashboard for a catalog, category, or sellable item, choose Render List Automatically.
Naming convention for custom relationship definitions
Relationship definitions based on pre-defined entity types in the Habitat Master catalog (catalog, category, or sellable item entity types) must conform to the naming convention defined in the following table:
If your Commerce solution implements relationship definitions for Commerce entities other that those listed in the following table, ensure to coordinate with your development team to make required configuration changes in the relevant Commerce Engine policy set.
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Relationship |
Source type |
Naming convention |
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Catalog-to-Category |
Sitecore.Commerce.Plugin.Catalog.Category,Sitecore.Commerce.Plugin.Catalog |
*Category.*?$ For example: CatalogToCategory |
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Catalog-to-Sellable Item |
Sitecore.Commerce.Plugin.Catalog.SellableItem,Sitecore.Commerce.Plugin.Catalog |
*SellableItem.*?$ For example: CatalogToSellableItem |
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Category-to-Category |
Sitecore.Commerce.Plugin.Catalog.Category,Sitecore.Commerce.Plugin.Catalog |
*Category.*?$ For example: CategoryToCategory |
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Category-to-Sellable Item |
Sitecore.Commerce.Plugin.Catalog.SellableItem,Sitecore.Commerce.Plugin.Catalog |
*SellableItem.*?$ For example: CategoryToSellableItem |
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Sellable Item-to-Sellable item |
Sitecore.Commerce.Plugin.Catalog.SellableItem,Sitecore.Commerce.Plugin.Catalog |
*SellableItem.*?$ For example: SellableItemToSellableItem |
Associate a catalog, category, or sellable item to another entity
You can establish a relationship between a catalog, category, or sellable item and another entity type when a relationship definition exists between the two entity types.
The following procedure uses an example based on the sample Habitat_Master catalog, and shows how to associate a sellable item with another sellable item, for example, as a related product (using the predefined RelatedSellableItemToSellableItem relationship definition).
To associate a catalog entity with another entity:
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On of the Merchandising dashboard, in the Catalogs section, click the name of a catalog, for example Habitat_Master.
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Browse to the sellable item, for example, in the Category section, click Departments, Phones, and then in the Sellable Items section, click a sellable item, for example Habitat Nomad 8GB 4G LTE.
NoteYou cannot change a sellable item that is in the published state. If the entity version is in the published state, you must create a new version of the entity to edit.
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In the section with the display name of the relationship, for example, in the RelatedSellableItemToSellableItem section, click the Associate icon and then, in the Associate Entity dialog box, ID field, type a word from the display name of sellable item you want to associate, and then select it from the list.
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Click the check mark to save the association.