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Automatic Creation of Colorway-Sizes
The system automatically creates colorway-sizes when you perform certain actions within the system. In that case, you are not required to manually create colorway-sizes.
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Your administrator might have configured your system to prevent the automatic creation of colorway-sizes or might have limited which colorway-sizes can be created.
Creating General Colorway-Sizes
The system automatically creates colorway-sizes if the value of the property com.lcs.wc.skusize.createSKUSize is set to true, and the following actions are performed:
You create a product size definition with sizes in it, provided that colorways already exist.
You add sizes to an existing product size definition, provided that colorways already exist.
You create a colorway, provided that product size definitions with sizes already exist.
Creating Season-Specific Colorway-Sizes
The system automatically creates colorway-sizes that are specific to a season if the value of the property com.lcs.wc.skusize.createSKUSizeseason is set to true, and the following actions are performed:
You add a product size definition with sizes in it to a season, provided that colorways already exist on that season.
You add sizes to a product size definition associated to a season, provided that colorways already exist on that season.
You add colorways to a season, provided that product size definitions with sizes in them already exist on that season.
Creating Source-Specific Colorway-Sizes
Source-specific colorway-sizes are colorway-size variations that are specific to a particular source on a particular season. The system does not support seasonless source-specific colorway-sizes. The system automatically creates colorway-sizes that are specific to a source if the value of the property com.lcs.wc.skusize.createSKUSizeSource is set to true, and the following actions are performed:
You add a source to a season, provided that colorways and product size definitions with sizes in them already exist on that season, and that the colorways are already associated to the given source.
You add a product size definition with sizes in it to a season, provided that colorways and sources are already associated to the given season, and that the colorways are associated to the given source.
You add sizes to a product size definition associated to a season, provided that colorways and sources are already associated to the given season, and that the colorways are associated to the given source.
You add colorways to a season, provided that both sources and product size definitions with sizes in them already exist on that season, and that the colorways are associated to the given source.
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If the colorway is associated to but not active for the given source, the system creates the colorway-size variation for the source on the season, but automatically sets that colorway-size to inactive.
Asynchronous Colorway-Size Creation
When you perform an action that triggers the creation of colorway-sizes, the system performs this creation asynchronously. While the system generates the colorway-size objects, the individual Product Size Definition Details tab displays a message letting you know that the system is still processing the colorway-sizes. The colorway-size table is replaced with an information table that displays the current process, queue, and status of the colorway-size generation, as well as the creation, start, and end dates.