Setting up a consuming site collection and connecting to the product catalog list

Using the cross-site publishing features provides a number of possibilities in which the content may be utilized. In this recipe, we will create a simple consuming site collection with product catalog navigation that consumes the list published from the site created in the Creating a product catalog authoring site collection recipe. The following is the diagram of cross-site publishing architecture:

Setting up a consuming site collection and connecting to the product catalog list

How to do it...

Follow these steps to create a consuming site collection:

  1. Navigate to Central Administration in your preferred web browser.
  2. Select Create site collections

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