Create and Sync Product Catalog from HMC

Create Product Catalog

Login to hmc with admin/nimda
localhost:9001/hmc

Right click on Catalogs and create Catalog

Provide required fields(ID and Name)
Create 2 catalog versions - Staged and Online - Make sure Online versions as active and save

Right click on Categories and create Category
Provide Identifier and Name fields
Select Catalog version as Catalog-Staged(Electronics-Staged) and Create.

Create another Category as Computers & Accessories

Create Category as Smartphones and Supercategories(Category system tab) as Mobiles & Tablets

Create Category as Tablets and Supercategories(Category system tab) as Mobiles & Tablets

Create Category as Smartphones and Supercategories(Category system tab) as Mobiles & Tablets

Create Category as Accessories and Supercategories(category system tab) as Mobiles & Tablets

Create Category as Desktops & Monitors and Supercategories(category system tab) as Computers & Accessories

Create Category as Laptops and Supercategories as Computers & Accessories

Create Category as Hard Drives and Supercategories as Computers & Accessories

Repeat the above steps to create more categories/sub categories.

Catalog, versions, categories, sub categories are ready.
We can see complete Catalog and categories hierarchic.

Right click on Catalogs and create Catalog

Provide Code, name, Catalog version, super category (Category system tab) etc to create product

Repeat the above step to create Lenovo-k2 and Lenovo-k3 products.

Provide Code, name, Catalog version, super category to create Dell XPS 1, Dell XPS  2, Dell XPS 3 products.

Repeat the above steps to create more products

Catalog, versions, categories, sub categories and products are ready.

We can see complete products hierarchic.

Create media. For this, right click on media in multimedia folder
Upload the required image and assign this media to product.

Create and assign the variants, click on the product variants tab.
Right click on the variants section and create the variants.

Repeat the above steps to create variants on other products.

Product Catalog structure for staged version is ready

Sync Catalog Staged to Online

Sync your data from staged to online, open your staged version and click on Catalog version tab

Create Synchronization on Dependent Catalog Version

Select Synchronization target as Online version and save

Click on Synchronize Catalog Version

Select Staged Version and click on start

After completing click on done.

We can see complete Staged and Online products hierarchic.