Reading SRM- MDM Catalog from R/3

We need to validate which Product Hierarchy a user used when adding an item to a cart from the SRM Catalog.
We are using Function Module BBP_PD_SC_GETDETAIL to get the key content of the selected cart(s) but this does not give us the required information.
Is there a way of 'reading' the MDM Catalog, particularly the Product Hierarchy from R/3?
Points awarded for helpful replies.
Thanks,
Martin Ward

HI,
Are you looking for data from a function module or you just want to see the data in the MDM catalog??
You can configure MDM catalog in ERP at this path
Materials Management->Purchasing->Environment Data->Web Services: ID and Description
Regards
Sam

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The Installation Note Number for SRM-MDM Catalog 3.0 is : 1177779. The recommended steps would be to follow how the Installation Guide recommends you to do so.
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Step 1: Make sure you have the back end database server(SQL/Oracle/???) is installed.
Step 2: Make sure all the MDM components(MDS, MDIS, etc) is installed.
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Also what Masa has mentioned is the communication path how the whole process is achieved technically and that doesn't mean that it has to be in the same order which he has mentioned. The below sequence is just an path to describe how the communication is achieved technically.
User -> Browser(Search UI deployed on AS Java) -> (Java API on AS Java) -> MDM Server -> MDM Repository -> DB
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Browser(Search UI deployed on AS Java) -> Step 3 and 4
(Java API on AS Java) -> Step 3 and 4
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Server 1 : SRM 5.0 Running   (HP-UX)
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Server 3:   Standard MDM Server installation (Windows 2K)
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type : rendered
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Nothing appears under the Hyperlink section in Catalog browser, though a valid link exists in Data Manager under Hyperlink as type-Rendered, MIME type as JPG and a valid URL.
I have searched Service Market place for this fix of this issue and found that SAP has improved the technology ( from Object Cache to Blob Cache) to display pictures/hyperlinks from SRM-MDM Catalog 3.0 SP06 and MDM 7.1SP04 onwards. We were on SRM-MDM Catalog 3.0 SP05 and MDM 7.1 SP03 before Dev upgrade.
Here are the notes for reference of others who get into same issue.
Note 1450593 - Implementation of BlobCache
This note states "MDM7.1 SP04 offers new image caching functionality called Blob Cache. The old functionality of Object Cache is replaced with the Blocb Cache mechanism in Catalog 3.0 SP06 P1"
Note 1505796 - Images not showing in SRM-MDM catalog (error in BlobCache)
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