CRM Catalog view

Hello
We are using Internet Sales from CRM5 and we use the catalog views functionality. When we have to define a view we have only the possibility to select a catalog area as describe in the standard sap. We would like to define some views more precisely and to select the product.
Is it possible to do that ? Is there a standard way to create a view and to go down to the product when we have to create a view ?
We would like to do that for limiting the number of catalog in our sytem and to reduce the initial/delta replications.
Thanks.
Regards,
Christophe

Hello,
Yes this should be available in your standard CRM 5.0 release. When you create your catalog view if you enter the view and double click on the catalog area you should see a list of Products available and can use the check box to mark them as available.
Regards
Mark
Edited by: Mark Foley on Sep 22, 2009 12:04 PM

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Hi Guys,
I am working on an internet sales application with backend as SAP R/3 ECC 6.0. We are not supposed to use CRM. Can someone tell me how to create them?
I have to create Catalog Views. I tried to acess the SAP Note 998453 and 998458, but i am getting the message "The requested SAP Note is either in reworking or is released internally only". Can someone tell me how to access these notes.
I have also gone through the SAP Notes : 696095, 677319, 677320 but couldn't find much help.
What is a BP or a target group?
I have gone through the the following sdn link also but couln't find much help.
Creating Catalog Views
Can someone provide me the step by step process.
Any kind of help will be deeply appreciated. Please do reply.
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Ibrahim

Hi Ibrahim,
I understand your requirement is slightly different than ours.
Based on the customer type (let's say: gold and silver) the catalog view should be displayed, right?
The question is: how do you match a material with the customer type? Let's say you have 20 materials in the catalog, how do you know what materials can be displayed, and what not? In order to do so, you will need to put a "label" on every material.
The option we choose for this is using attributes.
trx. CT04 - define the attributes (1 attribute, with 2 values 'gold' and 'silver')
trx. CL02 - create a class (of type 001 - material class). The class is only used as a dummy, so you can attach the attributes to it.
Now add the attributes to the class.
Now, for every material you maintain the class (dummy) and the attribute (gold or silver).
Mat 1    gold
mat 2    gold
mat 3    silver
mat 4     silver
Now, with the coding I gave to you, the product catalog is replicated to TREX. Every material is given a label "VIEWS_ID", which is filled with value "gold" or "silver".
Now, when the customer logs on to the webshop, it's checked what customer type he is (gold or silver). Let's say it's gold, then from all materials, the VIEWS_ID is read, and materials with a matching VIEWS_ID (gold) are shown to the customers. So material 1 and 2 are shown, 3 and 4 are hidden.
In case you have a catalog with a large structure, you might want to show also a limited piece of the catalog structure to the customer. In that case, you do the same for catalog branches, with classification type 060 layout areas.
Hope this helps you out.
regards,
Wim

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Hi
On default in b2b webshop, if the product is valid for the org. unit but invalid for the determined catalog, you still can order this product even it is not inlcuded in the product catalog.
Therefore, we disable the parameter 'enable.nonCatalogProducts of ui
component in b2b xcm configuration, then message 'CRM_SALES 307' raises in web to avoid ordering the product out of the catalog succesfully.
However, if we exclude certain product from catalog view(but the product still exists in the catalog), the product disappears in product catalog view in web shop as we expected, but we still can order this product by directly input in order, which disobeys our request, our request is that you only can order the products in your product catalog VIEW.
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Hi Patrick,
please check if for the catalog views Partner Product ranges are maintained. Use SPRO and under
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check the following settings:
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I hope this will help you resolve the issue. Have you already asked our Support for assistance? Please let me know the message number or write my comments in the message so that my colleagues know about it.
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Borislav

Catalog views for ERP E-Commerce for MySAP ERP ECC 5.0

We are implementing the R/3 version of CRM-ISA (ERP E-Commerce for MySAP ERP ECC 5.0).
We need to implement product catalog views to allow filtering based on specific attributes.
We have created a custom function module Z_ISA_READ_CATALOG_COMPLETE to replace ISA_READ_CATALOG_COMPLETE and Z_ISA_CUSTOMER_READ_CAT_VIEWS to replace ISA_CUSTOMER_READ_CAT_VIEWS.
But when we test from ISA the FM Z_ISA_READ_CATALOG_COMPLETE does not get invoked through RFC.
There is an SAP NOTE 998453 that we checked but it is still a pilot version.
Has anyone implemented the catalog views without the notes? Can we do the catalog views without the note? If so, how can we meke custom FM work? Please advice.
Thanks,
VK

Check the following.
1. The XCM file modification-config.xml replaces both the function modules
2. The checkbox to use the catalog views is checked for your webshop
3. Catalog is published to TREX and you are using TREX catalog instead of Memory catalog.
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- Kishore

SAP ECO for ERP 5.0: customer specific catalog views?

Hello,
SAP E-Commerce for ERP 5.0:
How can I create and process catalog views for Web shop customers and assign Web shop customers (as users) to the chosen views?
Is this business process only available in CRM?
Thanks in advance.
Best regards,
AEV

See the following notes:
[Note 696095 - ISA R/3 4.0: Collective note on Catalog Views|https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/696095]
To add items to the views:
[Note 677320 ISA R/3 4.0: Coding sample catalog item assignments to views|https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/677320]
and finally have customer specific views:
[Note 677319 - ISA R/3 4.0 : Coding sample assignment of customers to views|https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/677319]

ECO 7.0 for ERP product catalog views

To warn everyone, I know this question has been asked before for earlier releases several times, but I did not find anything in the threads I mention below.
We are currently on CRM 7 and ECC 6(no enhancement packs). I have found quite a few good materials on the solution and configuration, but still have not found anything that explains how customer specific catalog views are setup in CRM 7 ECO using ECC 6 as a backend. I was wondering if you have any resources that you could point me to find out more about this functionality.
I have read the following threads:
Re: Creating Catalog Views
Product Catalog Views in R/3 ECC6.0
but really have not come up with any conclusive beyond it is custom development work.
Can someone please confirm or deny this for this specific combination? If this is repeat of an already answered question, please give me the thread and I will post this information into the CRM wiki as my punishment for duplicating the question.
Take care,
Stephen

Hello Stephen,
I just implemented catalog views for the exact same scenario, CRM7.0/ECC6.0 a couple of weeks ago. I followed several threads and blogs on SDN, including the one Easwar mentions and it works fine. Maybe there is another way to do it now with less custom development but at least the 'old' approach is still working, as Easwar says... I sent you my detailed documentation so you can have a look. If you have news from SAP, i'm also interested.
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Fabian

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Hi all,
I need to prevent showing some products in E-commerce Catalog depending on the PPR settings. Does the PPR type for Catalog Views help me? can any one explain me what is significance of drop-down "Application" in the PPR type configuration.
thanks in advance
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Hi Mohanthy,
We are using PPR ( CRM Listings in Filtering products from ISA ). There is no standard way to make the products not displayed in catalog based on listing. We call a Z function module to after the user login to the Ecommerce Application and get the allowed products list and then use that to filter-out the products from the catalog page. ( This might not be a gr8 approach but .. this is exactly your requirement, and also we don't have a huge catalog so listing data in session is small for us.)
Hope this gives you a idea.
regards,
Yoshi

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We are implementing catalog views on Internet Sales Application for ECC and developed function modules base on OSS notes 677319 (FM Z_ISA_CUSTOMER_READ_CAT_VIEWS) and 677320 (Z_ISA_READ_CATALOG_ITEM_VIEWS). Our understanding from note 677320, the function module populates all materials in the catalog and pass the information to Webshop. Webshop then filter the catalog base on information in the attributes.
However webshop doesn't filter the catalog and it displays all the products in the catalog.
Please let me know if the filter should happen in ECC or
webshop? If it should happen in webshop, do we need standard code in
webshop to to perform the filter.
In addition to implemeting the 2 OSS notes above, we have done below
modification in Webshop:
1. Select catalog views ID in the catalog
2. Register the Z function modules in Webshop
Thank you in advance.
Best Regards,
Pandu Adisasongko

Hi DJ,
Thanks for your response. Below are the answers to your questions.
1. Are you using CRM 5.0 Internet Sales Application for ECC?
We are using ISA 5.0 Service Pack 11 for ECC. I assume it's similar with CRM 5.0 you are refering above.
2. Where have you created Product Catalog in CRM system (if you have in your landscape) or in ECC system? If you are using CRM which version of CRM are you using?
We created product catalog in ECC. Class and characteristics were created and maintained for materials and Customers
3. I am sure you must have configured your webshop in the shopadmin settings, where you might have selected the CATALOG SERACH field.
In the shopadmin, we have checked 'Display Catalog view' indicator.
Please let me know if I missed other setting or if I need to develop the filter in either function modules (ECC) or webshop.
Thanks,
Pandu Adisasongko

ISA Catalog Views B2B

Hello Experts,
I have created three catalog views & assigned a set of BP for each view.
I assigned each view to a different webshop. I want to restrict these webshops to only the BPs those were assigned to that view.
But users who are not included in that particular view are also able to view the catalog.
Could anyone help me out in restricting the users.
Thanks in advance.
Cheers
Vamsi

Hi Gudladona,
Regarding your first problem I suggest you check:
1. Updated Support Package CRM, IPC and SAPJ2EE
2. I have similar problem before and please check
   following SAP NOTES:
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   - 598285 Catalog determination: sold-to catalogs
   - 509248 Displaying invalid product catalogs/variants
   - 660795 Missing category description in catalog of
   - 696095 ISA R/3 4.0: Collective note on Catalog
Which CRM version are you? Use Internet Sales for
R/3?
Just some clarification (may be you already know these):
1. Even you use Catalog Search setting in ShopAdmin,
   you still need to maintain/enter the Catalog and
   Catalog Variant (don't leave it blank).
2. Webshop will only shows product assign to Catalog
   with match BP ID in Catalog View. The webshop will
   verify this when you select the SOLD TO PARTY in
   webshop (so webshop will not verify against user
   id).
Restriction webshop for specific user can be done, by
setting Authorization Group in ShopAdmin (when creating
webshop). You define authorization group and use this
in user authorization object CRM_ISA_SP.
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Cheers,
Gun.

What are Catalog Views

Hi,
I am working on an internet sales application with back end as SAP R/3. We are not supposed to use CRM. Can someone tell me what are Catalog Views and why and how we use them? Where do we create them? Please respond as I am completely new in this area.
Any help will be deeply appreciated.
Thanks,
ibrahim

Dear Ibrahim
You can think of 'Catalog Views' as a filter on Product Catlog that allows a company to present a specific view of the catalog to a specific /group of its customers. It is more extensively used in case of B2B scenarios where a company might have different prices for same / different set of products for its customers. Each of its customers will have access to a view that has been assigned to him explicitly.
In CRM , you can create a view and assign this view to a BP or to a target group. For each view, you can define a diffent prices and assign products from catalog as per business requirement. when a B2B user logs into the web shop, he will see the view assigned to him. This way it is possible to present two different set of products to two different web shop users !!
In comparison with VERSION, which is a mandatory for a product catalog, Catalog view is optional. Catalog Version is also a kind of filter in catalog.
The concept is the same in R/3 as well but implementation is very much different. As Wim has pointed that Catalog view is created on the fly in R/3 - which is not the case in SAP CRM.
hope this helps you

Creating Catalog Views

Custom Development of Catalog Views.
We are in the process of customizing the items that are available to a
user in a B2B scenario. We have gone through a the notes 696095(ISA R/3
4.0: Collective note on Catalog Views), 677319(ISA R/3 4.0 : Coding
sample assignment of customers to views),677320(ISA R/3 4.0: Coding
sample catalog item assignments to views), but haven't been able to tie
everything together. The following are our concerns:
1> How to assign each customer to a view at runtime ?
2> Do Catalog Views have to be created manually before assigning each
customer @ runtime ? If yes, How do we go about creating them ?
Thanks for the help.
Regards,
Jaleel Syed.

Hi Shweta,
Iam currently working in CRM 5.2 version and ECC 6 as backend. Request you to help me out.
DETAILS
Sales org. - 1000
Dist. channel - 10 (Dealer) & 20 (Distributor)
Division - A B C D E F
i have a scenario wherein my B2B customer has five sales areas:
1000 : 10 : A
1000 : 10 : B
1000 : 10 : C
1000 : 20 : D
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How do i control my B2B customer to stop viewing and ordering from D & E when he is a dealer and as well as i should stop him from viewing and ordering A, B & C when he is a distributor.
Anyways i have created two shops, one for dealer and one for distributor. When he enters dealer shop he should not see D & E wherein he is a distributor. When he enters distributor shop he should not be able to see A,B & C divisions.
Request you to let me know the steps involved in this. And also please let me know if he enters the dealer shop and directly punches the materials of D & E in the sale order what happens and how to restrict the order from saving.
Please do the needful ASAP as iam struck in middle of a project.
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Ramesh s. Narayanan

Getting Inconsistent catalog view error while invoking OCI.

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Message was edited by: mdv sapcrm

R/3 ISA B2B: Catalog Views

Hello experts in the group,
I need to create catalog views for R/3 ISA B2B application. I have to use cross division 00 to handle multiple sales areas and I want to address these divisions using catalog views. I already have one of the four product catalogs that we would need, in place.
I have tried to use followed SAP Notes:
696095: ISA R/3 4.0: Collective note on Catalog Views
695978: How to create function modules for ISA R/3
677319: Coding sample assignment of customers to views
677320: Coding sample catalog item assignments to views
610393: Example for using catalog exit after read
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Note 837119, that was referenced by SAP Help but I could not find.
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The TrexAdmin tool that I am using is Python based and delivered with TREX itself. Its in /sap/usr/trex<instance_number>/python_support/TrexAdmin.py
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Hi all,
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Hi all
I have the same problem.
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JDBC Release problem?
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