Linking Product Components

You can link specifications for use in specification printing. Doing so allows you to print child components when printing the parent specification, while still maintaining unique components on both products. If two products are linked, you can link their product specifications to each other when creating a new specification on the child product. During creation, select a specification from the Parent Specification menu.

This option is only available when creating a new specification. It is not available when creating a specification from an existing specification.

If you do not select a Parent Specification during specification creation, you can select Update Spec from the specification menu, and make a selection from the Parent Specification menu.

You can independently link specifications, construction sets, image pages, and measurement sets to each other. You can also link BOMs; however, the products for which the BOMs exist must also be linked.

To link product components from one product to another, do the following:

1. Navigate to the specifications Summary page of a product. The page displays the product specifications. Use the filters lists to filter the specifications by season and source, if necessary.

2. From the Actions menu of the specification whose components you want to link existing specification components to, select Link Components From Existing Product.

3. In the Find: Product window, where you can search for existing products, select a product type from the Type box, and enter any search criteria in the Criteria box. When you have entered all of your search criteria, click Search.

Clicking Search without providing any search criteria returns all products in the product library.

4. In the Search Results for Product window, click (choose) for the product whose components you want to link to.

The system displays the existing specification components for the product you have chosen in the Specification Components window. The system displays the product specifications you are linking to and from at the top of the page. Existing specification components are grouped together by like component.

Only those component groups that contain components which are available for linking are displayed.

6. After you have made your selections, click Select. The system refreshes and displays the specifications Summary page.

You can remove multiple components from a specification on the specifications Summary page. You can still remove a single component with the Remove action for that row.