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Creating Complex Products

A complex product is a grouping of simple products or a grouping of both simple and complex products. To create a complex product, you must first define the simple products, then add more components to the simple product.

Use the Customizable Product view tab in the Product Administration screen to create and validate complex products. Because there are many steps needed for creating a complex product, the procedures are divided into two phases as follows:

Complete the phases in the order provided.

Phase 1: Preparing to Create a Complex Product

This phase prepares you for complex product creation.

NOTE:  The following procedure assumes the simple products that you want to make up the complex product are already defined. For information about creating simple products, see To create a simple product.

To prepare for creating a complex product

  1. From the application-level menu, choose View > Site Map > Product Administration >Product Administration.
  2. In the Products list, select the product with which you want to base the complex product, and then click the Customizable Product view tab.
  3. From the drop-down menu in the Lock/Unlock Product list, choose Create Workspace.
  4. In the Lock/Unlock Product list, click the Locked Flag field to lock the product.

    5. The product is now locked so that others cannot edit it.

You are now ready for Phase 2: Creating a Complex Product.

Phase 2: Creating a Complex Product

This phase describes how to finish the complex product creation.

To finish creating the complex product

  1. From the Show drop-down list, choose Product Designer.
  2. In the Product Designer list, click New.
  3. In the Product field in the Product Designer List, click the select button.
  4. In the Pick Product dialog box, select one of the products, and then click OK.

    5. NOTE:  You can choose either a simple or complex product.

  5. In the appropriate cardinality fields, specify the number of products the user can select (cardinality) as described in the following table.

    6. Field
    Comments
    Default Cardinality
    Specifies what quantity of the simple product automatically appears when the complex product is chosen by a user. Default cardinality must be equal to or greater than the minimum cardinality and must be less than or equal to the maximum cardinality.
    Maximum Cardinality
    Sets the maximum number of items the user can select from a product. If you set the minimum cardinality to greater than 0, you must set the maximum cardinality to a number at least as large.
    Minimum Cardinality
    Governs whether or not selecting items from this product is optional or required. If you set the minimum cardinality to 0, selecting items is optional. If you set the minimum cardinality to greater than 0, the user must select at least that number of items.

    For more information about cardinality, see Product Administration Guide.

    Repeat Step 2 through Step 5 for each product you want in the complex product.

  6. From the Show drop-down list, choose Product Versions.
  7. Optional: Validate that cardinality for each product is entered correctly.
    1. Click the Validate button.
    2. Review product information.
    3. If changes are required, from the Show drop-down list, choose Product Designer, make the necessary changes, and then repeat Step 6 and Step 7 until the information is correct.
    4. If no changes are required, click Done.

      5. NOTE:  Validation provides a way to verify that each child product cardinality is set correctly before making it available to others.

  8. In the Lock/Unlock Product list, click Release New Version.

    9. The product is now unlocked which means that others can use the product and edit the product fields.


 Siebel eHospitality Guide 
 Published: 18 April 2003