Question about CCM Catalog Content Approval

Hi,
We are using CCM2.0 in our company for catalog management. I have defined various procurement catalogs and different views for each procurement catalog. I know the view can control what end users see in catalog search engine.
But is there also a way to control what catalog approver can see in CCM? If I assign a user as approver for the procurement catalog, looks like he/she can see all items in this procurement catalog...
Thanks a lot,
Elly

Hi,
I don't assign items to my views automatically. But after items are approved, I'll go into the views and run corresponding rules to assign items.
Regards,
Elly

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Can somebody tell me what kind of update to catalog content needs approval? My understanding was that if there is a price change, definately it will need to be approved. But yesterday my catalog manager uploaded some change to his catalog item price, and when checking the items in my procurement catalog, we can see the price has changed, but the status is still 'approved'.
Is my understanding wrong? How can I define what kind of update requires approval?
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Hi Elly,
Firstly - can you check in customizing if the catalog is maintained with the status 'Approved'.
i.e. SPRO -> Cross App Components -> SAP CCM -> SAP Catalog Authoring Tool -> Specify default value for catalog status.
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5) Wherever possible columns should be defined NOT NULL -as it helps performance (Indexes on NULLABLE columns are not used by the optimizer).
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