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Mapping Child Products in Feature Tables

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Note that you must select a product for the root, but you can choose not to select a product for a child. You may choose not to add a child by:

Not mapping a column for it, in which case the user will never get a child.
Entering the value null for a mapped row.

To map child products in Feature tables

Select the Feature table you want to map to the child product.

This procedure uses the following feature table as an example.

Switch to the Designer view.
Create a column and give it any name other than a reserved name.
Map the column to the Internal Product business component by selecting it from the picklist.
Select a field from the list of fields in the Internal Product business component.

For product structure creation, you can select any field. However, the value for the field you select is published in the data model and is available for the modeler to display in the UI at runtime like any other data in any other cell.

Create another column and give it the reserved name RELATIONSHIP and do not map it to anything. RELATIONSHIP is a reserved word.
Switch to the Editor view.
In the column you mapped to a business component, click the Picklist icon to select the product you want to select as the child product for each row of the Feature table.
In the Relationship column, enter the exact name of the Relationship of the root product that this child should belong to within the customizable product structure.

If you want a row not to be mapped to a product, do not choose an item in the picklist, or delete the entry in the row. The relationship name does not need to be set in this case.

The following figure shows an example where Option Packages is the relationship of the root product.

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