The Knowledge Base provides background information on all aspects of the Informatica MDM - Product 360. Ideas and concepts behind functionalities, advanced usage recommendations as well as best practices and tips and tricks are provided here.
Accelerators are functioning implementations which can be used out of the box under specific circumstances only. Usage of these accelerators in the context of the concrete customer’s use cases and requirements with the customer’s data and within its specific environment might need adaptations like configuration, translation, additional scripting, or programming of add-on functionalities which have to be provided through additional professional services.
Audit trail is an inherent functionality of the persistence layer of Product 360. This page describes the general architecture and gives a short overview of where to find additional documentation.
Characteristics are the new alternative to attributes. They allow to store additional data on products, variants and items without the need to adjust the repository and without the restriction to have the information on each and every product, variant and item. Characteristics are similar to attributes in that you can configure them to have a specific data type and define if they are mandatory or multi value. They are also dynamic in nature and can be changed during runtime. In contrast to attributes, they allow a hierarchy of values and dependencies between them. This allows for a value to only be maintained dependent on the selected value for the parent characteristic.
Lookups define a distinguished set of allowed values for a certain data field. They are similar to enumerations but have the advantage that they can be changed during runtime (with limitations). They have been initially developed for characteristics but can be also used for other data fields. It is possible to extract and integrate lookups and their values from/to the system via environment transfer. Using Service API WRITE command it's possible to create and modify lookups and their values. Lookup values can also be imported and exported using Product 360 import and export functionality.
Arabic Languages Support - writing from right to left
Channel specific references
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Food and Beverage
Frontend visibility
Define the visibility of views and perspectives based for certain user groups, independent of the action rights this group has.
Kits
Kits and components
Kits and Components is new functionality which is being made available with PIM 8. This functionality is available both within the Desktop Client and PIM Web. The functionality now allows on to model and creates static or dynamic kits to meet more comprehensive requirements across verticals like Manufacturing, Distribution and Retail.
Multi-channel preview creation
How to create preview templates - best practices, possibilities and limitations, customizings
Multi-channel validation
What is multi-channel validation? How to prepare and start multi-channel validations? What are the results of a multi-channel validation? How to implement own validation functions?
Quickfilter
Rich Text editing
Save last selected structure per perspective
Spell Checking
Here is a suggestion of sites where you can find spellchecker dictionaries. Please check and respect the particular rights and licences.
These dictionaries consist of two files: one file with the basic words and one file with the grammatical rules. Once this files are copied in the specific dictionary folder (which can be configured in the plugin_customization.ini) on the PIM server, at the next server start they will be converted in the flat word lists, which can be used from the PIM spellchecker.
We recommend using of following standard dictionaries:
To install the spelling standard dictionaries please do following:
Download a spellchecking dictionary e.g from one of the sources listed above.
Extract the corresponding "*.dic" and "*.aff" files.
Make sure that both files are encoded with ANSI. If necessary - change the encoding of both files and save them (e.g. using "Notepad++" - file menu "Encoding" -> "Convert to ANSI").
Copy these files in the folder configured in the plugin_customization.ini as com.heiler.ppm.spelling.server/sourceDictionariesFolder.
The default value is {CONF}/dictionaries/source, where {CONF} is the placeholder of the configuration folder of the PIM-Server.
The file pattern for the dictionary files is: {LANGUAGE}_{COUNTRY}.dic and {LANGUAGE}_{COUNTRY}.aff (e.g. en_US.dic, en_US.aff). So rename the copied files if necessary.
Then at the next server start the source files will be converted in the word lists and cached in the dictionary cache folder (which is also configured in the plugin_customization.ini).
Task management
The task management is a component for creating and assigning tasks as well as monitoring their progress and managing responsibilities of the different users of the application. In this context, a task is not just a simple description of a planned action, but may also contain nearly any items or query results.
This article describes the basic principles of tasks on a functional level and shows the possibilities and limitations of the component. Thus, it does not replace the user manual and should be regarded as an additional source for a deeper knowledge concerning the task management processes.
Transition fields - Group name (<structure system>, <language>)
View selection behavior