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Roadmap for Creating Simple Products with Attributes

A simple product with attributes has features that the customer can choose but does not have components the customer can choose.

For example, a customer buying a t-shirt might be able to choose the shirt's color and its size. The shirt has two attributes, color and size. Each of these attributes has several possible values, such as white, gray, black, and S, M, L, XL.

To create a simple product with attributes, perform the following tasks:

• Create the product. You create this in the same way you create other simple products. See Basic Product Administration.
• Define the attributes of the product. You must define what attributes the product has and the valid values for each attribute. See Products with Attributes

  For a more advanced method of defining attributes, see Product Attributes with Business Component Domains.

• Decide whether to use the default user interface or create a custom user interface. For information about the default interface, see About Default and Custom Siebel Configurator User Interfaces.
• Design the custom user interface. If you decide to create a custom interface, see Creating Custom Siebel Configurator User Interfaces. For more advanced methods of designing a custom interface, see Siebel Configurator UI Properties. and Siebel Configurator Web Templates.
• Create constraints for the product with attributes. For some products with attributes, you create constraints to define which attributes are compatible. For example, a shirt may come in five sizes and ten colors, but some colors may not be available in all sizes.
  • To create simple constraints, see Configuration Constraints.
  • For more advanced methods of creating constraints, you can use the same methods used to create advanced constraints for products with components, described in Roadmap for Creating Products with Components.
• Create scripts for the product with attributes. Optionally, you can enhance the behavior of Siebel Configurator by writing scripts in the Siebel eScript or the Siebel VB language. When the user selects certain attributes or does things like updating the shopping cart, you can use scripts to check the configuration, verify and adjust pricing, or forward information to other applications. See Siebel Configurator Scripts.
• Create smart part numbers. If necessary, you can automatically generate a different part number for each combination of attributes that is available. For example, you can have part numbers for size S white shirt, size M white shirt, and so on. This allows you to pass the part numbers to back office applications used for filling orders. See Smart Part Numbers for Products with Attributes.
• Testing Products with Attributes. After you have designed the product, user interface, and constraints, you should test the product to make sure that it works with the products that are available now and in the future. See Testing Products and Using Workspace Projects.
• Releasing Products with Attributes. After you have tested the product, you can release it to customers. See Releasing Products and Other Versioned Objects.