just so i have this understanding correctly about salemaker.

Im going to setup a catagory which has LINKED products from other catagories. this will be my BLOWOUT SALE catagory.
and run a sale on that catagory.

in order to do that, i have to make sure that the master cat id is that of the new catagory that im putting onsale? otherwise i have to put the sale on the master_cat_id catagory from which the products are masterd at, in order for them to show. Is that correct?

there is no way to setup a sale on linked products inside a a catagory that is all linked products?