Front-end / data maintenance

At the front-end a table view is provided showing the items belonging to a single product are listed. This table view works based on the selection of a single product, e. g. provided from a products' table view. This view is called "Items of the product" (de: "Artikel des Produkts") formerly (versions 5.2/5.3) known as "Referenced items of the product" (de: "Referenzierte Artikel des Produkts") and in Version 6 known as "Variants of the product" (de: "Varianten des Produkts").

Export

From an Export point of view the items data providers do have access to the product they belong to (if they do). Through a transition they can access all qualified data fields of their parent product (this is new with 6.0, not been available in versions 5.2and 5.3).

Even it is exactly one product an item belongs to this is realized by a sub-data type like it is done usually for typical 1:n-relationships. This is necessary due to technical circumstances.

On the other hand the product data providers offer a sub-data type to iterate over the items related to the certain product as its variations. Also here a transition to the item allows to access all qualified data fields of the items.

Overview on the sub-data types in the relevant export data providers of version 6.0:

Front-end / data maintenance

At the front-end these references are displayed in detail table views formerly known as "Item References". Now two of these views are available one for the entity Product, one for the entity Items working together with a selection of an object of the corresponding type each.

Both views show the already known reference information (the reference type and the identifier of the referenced object, the number of referenced objects and a sort order numbering). Due this information is independent of the concrete referenced object type (product or item) both types can be displayed together.

To differentiate these two views uniquely when using them together the names are adapted now to "References of the item" (de: "Referenzen des Artikels") and "References of the product" (de: "Referenzen des Produkts").

Export

For exporting both items and products the corresponding data providers offer several sub-data types to export the referenced items and products related to the object the export is currently working on. Here two different types of sub-data types are available.

One provides the list of all referenced objects (products and items) with the basic information of the referenced objects like it is in the detail views described above (the reference type and the identifier of the referenced object, the number of referenced objects and a sort order numbering, ...).

A second type of sub-data type offers the access to all information of the referenced object by a so called transition. Here the sub-data types work object dependent; that means referenced items and referenced products are processed separately (because they are individual data entities which might have individual data fields).

Overview on the sub-data types in the relevant export data providers of version 6.0: