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The Relationships feature enables the user to set up relationships or links between products, assets, articles, and entities.

Key Term:
  • Relationships: a way of linking entities together from different domains (e.g. PIM, MDM, DAM) as well as within the same domain.
Description:
  • A user can set up relationships between a Product and an Asset.

  • A user can set up relationships between Articles.

  • A user can set up relationships between Entities.

  • This feature provides the functionality that allows the linking of a product to its supporting details and assets like a product to its marketing images. This also allows the linking of additional information about the images associated with the products, markets, etc.

  • This feature provides the functionality that creates relationships which will relate Products to the Markets, Suppliers, Images, Videos, etc.

  • This feature provides the functionality that creates relationships that can be bi-directional in which the product can be related to the image/market/supplier and the product will be visible in the image/market/supplier modules.

  • Example:

    A product is linked to a particular supplier. In the supplier module, the supplier can view all the products that he had supplied.

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Application:
  • Define Article Links feature will link rich content to the products like adding multiple images, videos, PDFs, or even the market that the products are available in.

  • Define Article Links feature will create relationships that show the way two or more entities are connected or their state of being connected.

  • Define Article Links feature will create bi-directional relationships. This means that the linking of products to different modules can be seen if you enter either one of the module entities.

  • Define Article Links feature will create relationships that can cross-sell products. An administrator can define a relationship between two products that will prompt the system to suggest related products if a customer buys one of the linked products.

  • Example:

    In a product-to-product relationship, a link is created between a movie product and a soundtrack product. Once related, if a user buys a movie, the system will be able to offer the soundtrack of that movie to the user, as well.