Brands Maintenance

[HDeriauFF]

What is the purpose of the Brand feature?
I created some brands using:
inventory -> brands maintenance

The only place I found a way to link a product to a brand is:
inventory -> sales category maintenance and use the drop down to link existing products to a one of the brands I created, but I always get an error:

Code:

Database Error 1452 :
Cannot add or update a child row: a foreign key constraint fails (`weberp`.`salescatprod`, CONSTRAINT `salescatprod_ibfk_2` FOREIGN KEY (`salescatid`) REFERENCES `salescat` (`salescatid`))
Database SQL Failure : The SQL that failed was
INSERT INTO salescatprod (stockid, salescatid, manufacturers_id) VALUES ('HEHE', 'NULL', '2')

Thank you for your input

[falkoner]

I think it is used in a proprietary web shop extension.

Tim

[phil]

Tim is right - it is used in my webSHOP extension.

The sales categories creates a way to build a hierarchy of items for display in the webSHOP