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About Retrieving Configurable Products
You can set a configuration option to determine which representation of a configurable product to retrieve by default. To retrieve a specific simplified representation of a configurable product set the simprep_default_cnfg_asm configuration option. Set it to Current Configuration to retrieve only active components. Set it to yes to open the Open Representation dialog box.