Optional - Customizing for Locales

If your site is an international site and supports multiple locales, you can customize the product for your locales.  This functionality is available only for international sites.

Select Locales.

The page will redraw and you will see the page for assigning customizing products for locales.

There are three things that can be customized by locale for a product: product attributes, product variant attributes, and dynamic attributes.  Customizations are done by determining the category of changes you want to make, and then selecting the locale(s) in the appropriate list for the category.  We will first make product attribute changes.

Select the Edit icon to the right of the locale in the Product Attributes list that you wish to make modifications for.

The page will redraw and you will see the product attributes that can be customized for the locale.

Enter a localized name for the Product Name.

Select a Product Template to be used as the product page on the web site.

Enter a localized Description  for the product.

Enter localized text for More Information Content.

Enter localized text for the Image ALT Name.  This is the text that appears if the product image is unavailable.

Enter a localized Meta Description.  This is the description that is made available to external search engines.

Enter a localized list of Meta Keywords These keywords are made available to external search engines.

Enter a localized list of On-Site Search Keywords.  These keywords are used for searches performed on the site.

Select Save Updates.  

The page will redraw and you will see messages at the top of page showing which attributes were modified.

Select Back to Locales to return to the main Locales tab.

The page will redraw and you will be returned to the main Locales tab.  Repeat editing the product attributes for each locale that you want to make customizations for.

You will modify the product's variant attributes for each locale next.

Select the Edit icon to the right of the locale in the Product Variant Attributes list that you wish to make modifications for.

The page will redraw and you will see the page for editing variant attributes.

Use the Display Options to tailor the view of the variants.

Select the Edit icon to the right of the variant you want to modify.

The page will redraw and you will see the variant attributes that can be modified.

Enter localized text for the variant's Color Name.

Enter localized text for the variant's Size Name.

Select or deselect the Can Be Taxed checkbox to indicate if the variant can be taxed in the locale.

Select Save Updates.

The page will redraw and you will see messages at the top of the page indicating which attributes were saved.

Select Back to Locales to return to the main Locales tab.

The page will redraw and you will be returned to the main Locales tab.  Repeat editing the product variant attributes for each locale that you want to make customizations for.

See also

Before You Begin

The Example Used

Create a New Product

Setting the Workflow Status

Assigning Attributes

Assigning Images and Alternate Text

Assigning Search Engine Data and Search Keywords

Assigning Cross Sells and Upsells

Assigning Variants

Assigning Files

Optional - Assigning the Product to a Category

Optional - Previewing the Product