Overview
The Magento_SharedCatalog modules defines the visibility of products as well as product prices in the catalog and in B2B quotes for different company accounts.
The module allows a merchant to create multiple shared catalogs, link them to one or more company accounts, and set different product prices. Shared catalogs also control the visibility of products and categories for a company in the storefront. The shared catalog type (public or custom) defines the scope of products and prices available for guest users vs logged-in users. The system can have only one public and any number of custom shared catalogs.
The module relies on the CatalogPermissions module, in that the visibility of categories for a customer group is defined by category permissions for this customer group. Once a shared catalog is enabled in B2B features, the category permissions are automatically enabled. Adding a product or a category to a shared catalog enables appropriate category permissions for the customer groups linked to this shared catalog.
The module provides web APIs and can be integrated with third-party solutions to manage shared catalogs in Magento.
Installation details
The module heavily depends on the Magento_Company module, which must be installed and enabled the first. Category permissions must be enabled for shared catalogs to work properly. Price configuration for a shared catalog requires the start of a message queue consumer sharedCatalogUpdatePrice.
The module does not create any backward incompatible changes. Can be deactivated and uninstalled at any time.
When the module is uninstalled, the other [ProductType]SharedCatalog modules won't work.
Structure
Learn about a typical file structure for a Magento 2 module.
Extensibility
Shared catalogs are using message queues to save prices. For more information about queues, see Message Queues.
Extension developers can interact with the Magento_SharedCatalog module. For more information about the Magento extension mechanism, see Magento plug-ins.
The Magento dependency injection mechanism enables you to override the functionality of the Magento_SharedCatalog module.
Layouts
You can extend and override layouts in the Magento\SharedCatalog\view\adminhtml\layout directory.
For more information about layouts, see the Layout documentation.
UI components
The Magento\SharedCatalog\view\adminhtml\ui_component directory contains extensible UI components.
Forms: Company, catalog rule, catalog rule staging, product, sales rule, sales rule staging update, shared catalog, shared catalog tier price.
Listings: Company, product, shared catalog company, shared catalog, shared catalog product pricing, shared catalog product listing.
For more information, see UI Listing/Grid Component and UI Form Component.
