| 摘要 |
A maintenance tool is used to import and centrally maintain the data and metadata representing catalog items in a catalog database. The maintenance tool is further used to create and maintain constraint-based rule sets defining custom catalogs that are subsets of the items in the database, constraint-based pricing profiles that define custom pricing schemes to be applied by the items in the database, and a primary browse hierarchy that represents the items in the database. The maintenance tool is used to create and maintain accounts for organizations and to assign to each organization a custom catalog and a pricing profile. The maintenance tool republishes the data on a periodic basis to update the custom catalogs and pricing profiles based on additions and modifications to the database, the rule sets, and the pricing profiles, and to generate new custom browse hierarchies from the primary hierarchy. The maintenance tool may be used to generate physical manifestations of the custom catalogs, pricing information and browse hierarchies for exportation to organizations not directly coupled to the catalog database through a network.
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