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Product Types Management

Important

If you want to create a single Product Type for a NON parent category of products, witch is

recommanded, you have to give your Product Type exactly the same name as the category

that contain the products assigned to it. It is best thing to do, because the most important bad

effect is that some products can be ignored by the parameter search. So you must understand

that a Product Type can describe with its parameters all the products in a category, so you

don't need to create more product types for a category. If you feel that the Product Type

Parameters are not enough, the best thing to do is to create more parameters for your existing

product type and reconfigure the products according to the new parameter information.

Important

If you decide to create more product types for a non parent category, you must think about

those Product Types as they would be child categories, so you will give them names like

they were categories, but they are not categories! This is a very risky option, because it is

much more possible you can forget to assign a Product Type to a few products, and those

products are ignored in the parametric search process, BUT you don't have a very deep

category structure. So in this case we are talking about products that have similar functions,

but they have different parameters and different parameter values.

Example 4.1.

Example: you have "Displays" category, and here you would create 2 more child categories:

"LCD Displays" and "Plasma Displays". The 2 categories of products perform same functions

(showing you multimedia information), but have different parameters, and you cannot assign

a single Product Type to describe all LCD and Plasma displays, because lets say Plasma

pixel size is very different than LCD pixel size. So in this particular case you have to

create 2 Product Types for "Displays" Category: "LCD Displays" Product Type and "Plasma

Displays" Product Type. This is actualy the best thing to do, because Plasma is a very different

technology than LCD.

Important

!REMEMBER! You have to make sure that ALL products in a Category are assigned to

at least one Product Type, and that Category must be non parent, with other words must

not have child categories. Further more, if you have a parent category for two categories,

that parent category must not contain any products, or contain all products from the

the two/more child categories.

Creating a relationship between a Product and a Product Type

Case 1 Adding/assigning a Product Type to an existing Product

Go to your Product List and follow theese steps:

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