JR49957: Allow deep category unpublish on child products

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• Catalog structure example:
  
   Clothes
     Men
       Shirts
         product1
       Pants
     Women
       Shirts
         product1
       Pants
  
   Mark the "Mens" category as unpublished and run a delta
  preprocess/delta buildindex.
  
   Observed Results: The "Mens" category is added to the solr
  document of product1 and "Shirts" will show up as a category
  facet during keyword search even though the parent category is
  unpublished.
  
   Expected Results: The "Mens" category should not be added to
  the solr document of product1, and "Shirts" should not show up
  as a category facet during keyword search.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• USERS AFFECTED:
   Business users
  
   PROBLEM ABSTRACT:
   Allow deep category unpublish on child products
  
   BUSINESS IMPACT:
   Needs to manually mark all subcategories to be unpublished
  
   RECOMMENDATION:
  

Problem conclusion

• A feature enhancement has been provided in this fix to allow
  business users to perform a deep category unpublish on child
  products through Commerce Management Center.
  
   There are a few limitations that business user needs to be
  aware of:
  
   1. When deep un-publish category is enabled,  any update to the
  category published flag reqruies a full re-index.  In other
  words, - in order to process a deep category unpublish change
  request, a full re-index on the Catalog Entry index is required.
  
   2. Updating any child category of an unpublished category tree
  may cause that category to become visible in keyword searching.
  
   3. In order to prevent child products under un-published
  category to display in eSpot as product recommendation web
  activity, it is required to pass in the catalog Id to the eSpot.
  
   4. Because the child products under un-published category is
  still in the product index and auto-suggest does not take into
  account any filtering condition, keywords from the unpublished
  product may still be suggested.
  
   A new configuration is added to:
   - xml/config/com.ibm.commerce.catalog-fep/wc-component.xml file
  on WC server
   - xml/config/com.ibm.commerce.catalog/wc-component.xml file on
  WC Search server
   to allow the deep category unpublish to apply to keyword search
  as well.  In order to enable deep category unpublish to apply to
  keyword search, set "DisplayPublishedOnly" to "true".
  
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   The latest available maintenance information can be obtained
  from the Recommended Fixes for WebSphere Commerce technote:
   http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=3046&uid=swg21261296
  

Temporary fix

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APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  WC BUS EDITION

• Fixed component ID

  5724I3800

Applicable component levels

• R700 PSY

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