Manage Product Keys

Manage Product Keys is a feature that sets up certain attributes as Product Keys so that they can be checked for uniqueness and can be used as an identifier.

Key Term:	Property: a data field which describes a product, can also use ‘attribute’.
Description:	Products are created with unique values, which are called Product Keys. Product Keys define attributes to be a unique value. If non-unique values will be used, a violation will appear for the Product or Article.
Related topics:	Manage Supplier Records Manage Virtual Catalogs
Application:	A user can define certain attributes to be unique so that the products created by that class are also unique based on that attribute. Example: Supplier A wants the GTIN value of his products to be unique. This can be done by setting the attribute, GTIN, as a Product Key or Identifier Attribute.

How-to: Manage Product Keys

To manage product keys, follow these steps:

• Log in and click on the Administration icon.

• Go to the Data Model tab and under Classes, click on Article, then click on Single Article.

• In the Section bar, click on the ‘+’ icon to add property collection.

• Select the property collection and click on the Apply button.

• Click the drop-down button beside the property collection. Select the attribute to be used as product key and click on the Save button.

• Click on the Explore button and go to Products, then create a product from the class ‘Single Article’.

• Edit the product and enter value in the attribute that was selected as product key.

• Click on any blank area then click on the Save button.

• Go back to Products and create another product of the same class.

• Edit the same attribute with the same value as with the previous product.

• Click on the Save button and the violation for uniqueness will appear.

• Enter a unique value in the attribute for that product to resolve the violation then click on the Save button.