Best Practices for Unlinked Assets in Custom Catalogs

Hello,
Is it a best practice to have unlinked categories, products, skus in the product catalog?
How do folks typically deal with assets that are no longer active?
thanks!
J

It is better to have one dummy category to assign all these unlinked assets, and you have to make sure this category should restricted from search engine and it should not display in b2c site. its just a temparay category which will have all the unliked assets under that category.
if you want to show a particular product in b2c site in near future, then you have assign that product to respective category and you can delete that product relationship from this dummy category.
Edited by: Suresh Repalle on Aug 24, 2011 3:57 PM

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