Property Collections

The Property Collections feature allows a user to group the attributes and tags under one area to easily configure a group of products.

Key Term:	Property: a data field which describes a product, can also use ‘attribute’. Attribute: a data field which describes a product, can also use ‘property’.
Description:	A property collection is a group of attributes, properties, tags, and roles. This collection can be added to a class or taxonomy level. A user can then categorize a product under that class or taxonomy level to inherit a set of properties. This feature is useful for product categories with common sets of attributes.
Related topics:	Attribute Management Tag Management
Application:	A property collection can hold attributes and tags for similar types of information or content. Example: A supplier wants to add the List Price attribute to his products so he creates a property collection containing the List Price attribute and adds it to the Single Article class.

How-to: Property Collections

To create and add property collections, follow these steps:

• Log in and click on the Administration icon.

• In Data Model, click on the Property Groups drop-down list and select Property Collections.

• Click on the ‘+’ icon to create a property collection.

• Enter the name of the property collection and click on the Create button.

• Enter the number of rows (maximum of 10) and columns (maximum of 6) to accommodate the attributes and tags into the property collection. Click on the Save button.

• Drag and drop the attributes and tags into the empty rows and columns.

• Click on the Classes drop-down list and select the class to which the property collection will be applied.

• Scroll down to Section and click the ‘+’ icon to add the property collection.

• Select the property collection to be added and click on the Apply button.

• Click on the Explore icon, then click on Products.

• Click on the Create button and select the class to which the property collection was attached (in our example, Product).

• Click on the Properties tab then click on Price to view the added property collection.