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Product Options on the Copy / Link Product Page
The Product Options section allows you to select which product options you want to copy. If you select a relationship type from the Relationship Type menu, the system selects a specific set of product options. There are many product options available for copy. Several top-level product options are available:
• Sources
• Colorways
• Product Size Definitions
• Destinations
• Specification Components
The system displays a number in parentheses to the right of each product option. This number indicates the total number of that product option that is available for copy.
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The total does not include lower-level options. For example, specifications that exist for sources are not included in the top-level count for sources available. The total only indicates the number of that specific option.
Working with Levels
Product options are displayed in a hierarchical tree. Lower-level product options are indented below higher-level product options. Aligned product options are at the same level.
• You can click the expand icon to the left of the product option to expand that product option and display its lower-level options that are available. You can also expand generic product options by clicking their names. Product options in blue indicate a generic product option, such as a source or a destination, while product options that appear in black represent the name of a specific product option.
• You can click the expand icon again to collapse the product option and all product options beneath it. You can also click the name of a generic product option again to collapse it and all its lower-level product options.
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Use Expand All and Collapse All to expand and collapse product options.
Selecting and Clearing Product Options
Select the corresponding checkbox for the product option that you want to copy. You can clear corresponding checkboxes to remove product options for copy. The system only copies those product options where the checkboxes are selected.
• If you select a product option, the system automatically selects all lower-level options for that product option. You can manually clear lower-level product options. The system also automatically selects higher-level product options, as dictated by the dependencies outlined in the Dependencies section.
• Similarly, if you clear a product option, the system automatically clears all lower-level options for that product option. You can manually select lower-level product options.
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Use Select All and Clear All to select or clear all product options.
After you have selected the product options to copy, click Next, which is located both in the header and at the bottom of the page. Clicking Next takes you to the Copy / Link Product: Product Attributes page.
Dependencies
Selecting or clearing a product option automatically selects or clears all lower-level options for that product. You can manually select or clear lower-level product options. When selecting and clearing product options, the system maintains sets of dependencies, meaning that if a certain product option is selected, other product options are automatically selected. The majority of these dependencies are represented visually in the Product Options hierarchical tree. This is why you might see a product option in more than one location.
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The components in the Specification Components group are copied independently of any particular specification.
Several dependencies affect which product options are selected. These dependencies are dictated by two things:
• Whether you select a product option from the product filters menu in the product header
• Which product option you select
Dependencies on Product Filters
The following table outlines the existing dependencies that control the automatic selection of product options based on the selection of a product option using the product filters menu in the product header.
Product Option Selected from Product Filters
Product Options Available for Selection
Season
Sources; specifications; associated specification components (BOMs, constructions, image pages, measurements, specification documents, samples, sample documents, sample images, cost sheets); colorways (including colorway documents and colorway-season documents); product-season documents
Source
Sources; specifications; associated specification components (BOMs, constructions, image pages, measurements, specification documents, samples, sample documents, sample images, cost sheets); colorways (including colorway documents and colorway-season documents); size categories; destinations; product documents; product-season documents; all other options independent of the specification
Specification
Sources; specifications; associated specification components (BOMs, constructions, image pages, measurements, specification documents, samples, sample documents, sample images, cost sheets); colorways (including colorway documents and colorway-season documents); size categories; destinations; product documents; product-season documents; all other options independent of the specification
Colorways
Colorways (including colorway documents and colorway-season documents); size categories; destinations; product documents; product-season documents; all other options independent of the specification
Dependencies on Product Options
The following table outlines the existing dependencies that control the automatic selection of product options, based on the selection of a product option from the Product Options box.
Product Option Selected
Product Options Automatically Selected
BOM, Construction, Cost Sheet, Image Page, Sample, Sample Document, Sample Image Page, or Specification Document that is on a specification
Associated specification and associated source
Colorway
Colorway documents and colorway-season documents
Cost Sheet
Associated specification and associated source
Measurements independent of specification
Selects the size category if defined to do so in the property setting
Measurements on a specification
Associated specification and associated source. Also selects the associated size category if defined to do so in the property setting.
Sample (Fit)
Associated specification, associated source, and associated measurements set.
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If the property setting is defined to automatically copy the size category when the measurements set is selected, selecting a fit sample also causes associated size categories to be selected.
Sample (non-Fit)
Associated specification and associated source
Source
Associated specification and associated specification components (BOMs, Constructions, Cost Sheets, Image Pages, Measurements, Samples, Sample documents, Sample Image Pages, Specification documents)
Specification
Associated source and associated specification components (BOMs, Constructions, Cost Sheets, Image Pages, Measurements, Samples, Sample documents, Sample Image Pages, Specification documents)
Independent Product Options
The following product options maintain no dependent relationships when selected:
• Any specification component (BOMs, constructions, image pages, measurement sets) that is independent of a specification. These components are found in the Specification Components group in the Product Options box. Selecting any one of these components does not select the associated specification or source.
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Measurement sets independent of a specification automatically select the associated size category if the system has been configured to do so.
• Destinations
• Product documents
• Product-Season documents
• Size categories