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Overview

You can only deploy a product's details for products that are already on the target site.


Use case: CV Franchise HQ has added a whole host of custom product detail information to help customers make more informed choices. They want to populate this information to all franchisee sites selling these products. Franchisee sites will be able to alter the deployed product data. 


Quick Guide

Source site feature setting: Deploy Content enabled. 

Target site feature setting: none 

Lockable content type: no. Deployed product details can be edited and deleted on target sites.

Deployable content type: yes. 

What can be deployed?* all or part of a product's details NOT integrated from the ERP can be deployed.

*Also dependent on Product Maintenance modes set on source and target sites. See below.

Deployment notes: A product (product code) must already exist on the target site. If a product codes not recognised, the product's data will not be deployed.    


On this page:

Non-deployable Product Details

  • Products NOT already on a target site, i.e., product code does not exist.
  • Product deletions on the source site

  • An SEO URL that matches one used on the target site. If a duplicate is found, deployment of the whole product (i.e., all its data) will fail.

Check Deployment Results

After deploying product data, check the deployment record to make sure deployment was completely successful.

Product Detail Data

In general, product details maintained online can be deployed.

  • Product Information
  • Category links for deployed products
  • Product image and video files

  • CMS-maintained custom fields (data type and length of a defined field on target site must be the same)

    Custom field deployment rules:

    • Online-maintained custom fields only

    • Non-existent fields are added on destination sites

    • Existing fields on destination sites will be updated with deployed data if fields share the same name, type and length

    • For "display type HTML" fields with images, these will be deployed as well.
    • Deployment of custom fields for a product is all or nothing. You cannot choose to deploy one field and not another. 
    • Deletions cannot be deployed

    • After deployment, a dictionary refresh will automatically be done

  • SEO fields (only SEO fields that can be edited on the Maintain Product page 

  • If Product Maintenance integration mode is default (ERP), uneditable ERP-integrated fields are not deployed. NOTE: Although product ribbons can only be edited in ERP-mode, a ribbon applied to a product will be deployed. 

  • Product Features
  • Accessories
  • Alternates
  • Product Variant details
  • Non-existent fields on target sites

Deploy Product Details

Product details for a single product multiple products can be deployed in one go. 


To deploy multiple products, 

  1. Go to Ecommerce → Products & Categories → Product Maintenance.

  2. Click Deploy.


To deploy a single product:

  1. Go to Ecommerce → Products & Categories → Product Maintenance.

  2.  Use Search to find the product, then click Edit for the product.

  3. In the Maintain Product page, hover over Options, then select Deploy. 


  4. Toggle ON the product data types to deploy.
     

  5. Click Next.

  6. Enter a name for the deployment (optional), then toggle to select one or more target sites.


  7. Click Next.

  8. Check that the data selections and target sites are correct.


  9. To initiate deployment, click Deploy.

  10. In the final step, click the link to check deployment results,


Troubleshooting Product Deployment

Deployed Product Missing on Target Site

A deployment will only add a product on the target site if the product code already exists there. NOTE - The deployment may still be flagged as successful.

Solution: Before deployment, check that products and their codes are on a target site. After deployment, check the deployment record.

Check these results details:

Deployment Content: 'No changes have been logged' - no product data for any product was deployed to any target site. 

 

Target Site Log: data for the named product code was not deployed on the target site because it did not pre-exist there.


Enable Deploy Product Details (Admin)

On the source site:

  1. In the CMS, go to Settings → Settings → Feature Management → Content → Deploy Content.

  2. Ensure Deploy Content is enabled, then click Configure.
     

  3. In Deployment, toggle ON Product Maintenance. Also toggle ON Product Features if in use on your site, 

  4. Click Save or Save & Exit. 

Once Deploy Product Maintenance is enabled, you can deploy content from a single product or from multiple products. 


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