Overview
Metadata help your customers find what they're looking for quickly and easily. Being able to narrow down hundreds of results based on specific feature criteria makes searches more efficient.
Traditionally, product feature data (or metadata) has always been integrated from the ERP. This needs someone to go into the ERP to update this information. You can now maintain feature metadata in the CMS.
Commerce Vision recommends that this task be done on all products at once rather than in stages to avoid products without features being excluded from searches.
Prerequisites
In order to maintain your metadata online, here's what to needs to be configured:
Product Features enabled
To enable Product Features:
- In the CMS, navigate to Settings → Feature Management → Products & Categories → Product Features.
- Toggle ON Product Features.
Integrator Custom Tables Setting
- Open the Integrator client and click the 'Set Options' link for Custom Tables.
- Ensure these tables are not enabled: "stock-master-extra-detail->CUSTOM_STockMasterExtraDetail" and "sytem-table→system_table".
If they are selected, de-select them and click OK.
Once your site is configured as above, you're ready to maintain all of your product feature metadata in the CMS!
Create a feature
- In the CMS, navigate to Products & Categories → Product Features.
- Click Add New Feature.
- Enter a name for the feature.
- Toggle the display options on or off as required. See Metadata visibility for further information.
- Click Save & Exit.
Assign features to products
- In the CMS, navigate to Products & Categories → Product Maintenance.
- Search for the product you wish to update and click Edit.
- Scroll to the Features section.
- Click Add Feature and select from the dropdown.
- Enter a value for this product.
- To add another product feature, click Add Feature and go through steps 4-5.
- Once you have finished, click Save.
Presto!
Depending on the display settings you chose, your feature info will now display in various contexts as customers browse your site. Nice work. 
| Product List |
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| Product Detail |
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| Product Compare |
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Additional Information
No more editing first in the ERP then integrating to the web. With Product Features, you can see and update product metadata online. With our Best Practice Design sites, you can maintain all of your feature metadata via the CMS.
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| Self Configurable |
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| BPD Only? |
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| B2B/B2C/Both |
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