Site assignments for catalogs, price books and inventory
Giving a new site its data: the Site Assignments tabs for the storefront catalog, price books and the inventory list, and how many of each a site can hold; enabling locales; the SFRA Storefront Configuration preferences; and rebuilding the search index afterwards.
Given a recently created B2C site, assign the storefront data configurations according to business requirements.
~6 min read · 6 practice questions ·
What the exam expects
- Give a new site its products, prices and stock by assigning a catalog, price books and an inventory list from each object's Site Assignments tab.
- Say how many catalogs, price books and inventory lists one site can have, and what happens when you assign another.
- Enable locales for a site and pick its default under Site Preferences > Locales.
- Find the SFRA Storefront Configuration preferences (instance type, default list price book ID) under Custom Preferences.
- Know that products only reach search after the search index is rebuilt.
Key terms: Site Assignments tab (the tab on a catalog, price book or inventory list that links it to sites); storefront catalog (the catalog whose categories become a site's navigation); inventory list (stock records a site reads); site preferences (per-site settings under Merchant Tools > Site Preferences); organization (all sites in an instance; global settings apply to every site).
Key facts
- Detail
- None until assigned
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- One; a new assignment unassigns the previous one
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- Rebuild the product search index to include its products in search
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- Several, if currencies are the same
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- Not effective in the storefront
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- One; reassignment unassigns the old list
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- Custom Preferences > Storefront Configuration
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- Site Preferences > Locales; one default
Sources for this section (6)
- Create and Manage Sitesdeveloper.salesforce.com (opens in a new tab)
- Assign a Cataloghelp.salesforce.com (opens in a new tab)
- Assign a Price Bookhelp.salesforce.com (opens in a new tab)
- Assign an Inventory Listhelp.salesforce.com (opens in a new tab)
- Configure SFRAdeveloper.salesforce.com (opens in a new tab)
- Configure Site Localeshelp.salesforce.com (opens in a new tab)
- When you assign a catalog to a site, what becomes the storefront's navigation structure?
- When you unassign a site's catalog, what replaces it?
- Why mark one locale as the default when several are allowed?
- Which functional permission lets a role work on price books for selected sites only?
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