In this tab you can add new price datasets or you can edit or delete existing prices. Price datasets can be maintained on the products or item level. Though, usually they are maintained on the item level. For example, you can create different price datasets for individual items of a product. Furthermore, you can create price datasets of different price types. Price types may comprise sales prices, purchase prices or list prices. Some price types belong to the standard data model of the iPIM system. Additional price types can be set up in the “Types” area of the “Systemsetup” section of iPIM CC.
User interface
“Add supplier” (
): Button that is used to call up a dialog box where additional suppliers can be added to the “Supplier” menu.
"Supplier": Menu for selecting a supplier level. Via supplier levels you can separate product data from different suppliers. This can be accomplished using supplier attributes which can possess different attribute values depending on the supplier level. In order to select a supplier level, choose the corresponding supplier from the menu.
“All suppliers” (
): Toggle switch that is used to set whether prices of from all supplier levels or whether only prices from the selected supplier level are shown. To do so, set the toggle switch to the appropriate position.
“Only valid” (): Toggle switch that is used to set whether all prices are shown or whether only valid prices are shown. To do so, set the toggle switch to the appropriate position.
"Context": Menu for selecting a context level. Using contexts, you can store product data on several data planes so that an attribute can have different values which depend on the respective context. In order to select a context level, choose the corresponding context from the menu.
“All contexts” (): Toggle switch that is used to set whether prices from all context levels are shown or whether only prices from the selected context level are shown. To do so, set the toggle switch to the appropriate position.
"Locale": Menu for selecting a locale which is a language level. Product data may vary depending on the locale. For example, this may comprise attribute values that vary between languages. In order to select a language level, choose the appropriate locale from the menu.
(
): Button to call up the dialog box where you can select the attributes that are to be shown in the "Price list" table as the various columns. Click here to learn more.
"Hidden columns (
)": Menu for selecting which of the standard table columns are shown or hidden. To do so, click on the "Hidden columns" icon () to show the corresponding menu, tick each of the desired attributes and click on the "Confirm" icon (
) button to confirm your selection.
"Free-text search": Search field for entering a search term according to which the data in the "Price list" table is filtered.
"Restore" (
): Icon that is used to reset the free-text search.
"Grouping" (
): Drop area that is used to group product data according to particular attributes. To do so, drag the appropriate attributes to the "Grouping" area.
"Price list": Table that shows the product data of the called-up product as well as its variante and items, whereby these need to be ticked in the "Product search" card, so that their data is shown in the table.
"Delete" (
): Button that is used to delete individual table entries.
Action menu (
): Icon that is used to show the action menu that contains various actions that can be applied to the table entries shown in the table.
: Customized button to which the various actions from the action menu can be allocated so that you do not have to call them up via the action menu whenever you want to use them. The respective actions can be allocated to the button via drag & drop. And they can be removed in the same way. Each allocation of actions only applies to the logged-in user.
(): Button that is used to save changes to prices respectively to price attribute values.
(): Button that is used to call up a dialog box where new price datasets can be created.
(): Button that is used to deleted price datasets. Click here to learn more.
Usage
Call up price datasets
Price datasets can be assigned to the product level or the item level. By ticking the called-up product or an item in the search mask, you can select which price datasets are shown in the table:
- Enter the product number in the “Product number” field .
- Click on the Auf den button
Once the search was carried out, the product found by the search as well as its variants and items are shown below the search mask. - In the product search mask, tick the product or an item . You can also tick multiple options.The corresponding price datasets are shown in the “Price list” table.
Add price datasets
Usually prices a maintained on the item level. In order to create a new price dataset for a particular item, proceed als follows:
- In the product search mask, tick the item.
- Click on the button in the footer to call up the corresponding dialog box.
- Enter the various parameters:
- Double-click in the table cell in the “Price type” column and select a price type from the menu.
- Double-click in the table cell in the “Price” column and enter the price.
- Double-click in the table cell in the “Currency” column and select a currency from the menu.
- Optional: Set a start of validity. To do so, double-click in the table cell of the “Vaild from” column and select a date from the datepicker menu.
- Optional: Set an end of validity. To do so, double-click in the table cell of the “Vaild to” column and select a date from the datepicker menu.
- Double-click in the table cell in the “Price type” column
- In order to create another price dataset, click on the
button . Then another row of input fields is shown. Here, you can enter the corresponding parameters.
- To finalise the creation of the price dataset, click on the button .
The dialog box closes and a success message is shown. The price dataset is now created. - To cancel the process, click on the button .
Show/hide attributes
Some attributes are included in the table by default. Other attributes are displayed optionally. In order to include optional attributes in the table, proceed as follows:
- Click on the -Button to call up the corresponding dialog box.
- Gegebenenfalls die Textsuche verwenden, um die Auswahl der Attribute anhand eines Suchbegriffs zu filtern.
- Ein Attribut auswählen. Es können auch mehrere Attribute ausgewählt werden:
- Um ein Attribut auszuwählen, das Attribut von der linken Spalte in die rechte Spalte übertragen. Dazu auf das Attribut klicken.
- Um ein Attribut abzuwählen, das Attribut von der rechten Spalte zurück in die linke Spalte übertragen. Dazu auf das Attribut klicken.
- Um ein Attribut auszuwählen, das Attribut von der linken Spalte
- Um die Attributauswahl abzuschließen, auf den -Button klicken. Das Dialogfenster schließt sich und das ausgewählte Attribut bzw. die ausgewählten Attribute werden in der Tabelle eingeblendet.
- Um die Attributauswahl abzubrechen, auf den -Button klicken.
- Um mehr über die Verwendung des Dialogfensters zum Auswählen von Attributen zu erfahren, hier klicken.
- In einigen Bereichen verfügt der Button zum Aufrufen des Dialogfenster über die Schaltfläche
. Über diese Schaltfläche lassen sich Attributprofile mit einer bereits gruppierten Auswahl von Attributen direkt aufrufen. Um mehr zu erfahren, hier klicken. - Über die Icons
und 
lassen sich alle Attribute auf einmal von einer Spalte in die andere Spalte übertragen.
Edit price datasets
In order to edit a price dataset, proceed as follows:
- In the product search mask, tick the product or an item. You can also tick multiple entities. Then the corresponding price datasets will are shown in the “Price list” table.
- Double-click in the table cell you want to edit.
- Make the desired changes
- Leave the table cell.
- Possibly make further changes to other table cells.
- To save your changes, click on the button. If the process was successful, a corresponding message will appear.
- By clicking on the right-hand mouse button you can call up the context menu. Among other things, the context menu contains actions that can be applied to the table data. This includes actions that can be used to copy the content of a table cell to other table cells. Click here to learn more about this matter.
- In order to learn how to edit attribute values using the keyboard, click here.
How can I call up multiple products at once to edit them sequentially?
- Expand the "Selection" widget.
- Via the "Active context" menu, you can select which products are shown in the widget
- In the product list of the widget, click on a given product.
- Click on the button. Following this, the products are called up as a sequence, with only one of the products being active in the workspace at a time.
Delete price datasets
In order to delete a price dataset, proceed as follows:
- In the procuct search mask, tick the product or an item. You can also tick multiple entities. Then the corresponding price datasets are shown in the “Price list” table.
- In the table, tick the price dataset you want to delete. You can also tick multiple price datasets.
- Click on the button in the footer.
The button is shown.
- Click on the button to confirm the deletion.A success message is shown.
) icon in the respective table row to delete resp. remove individual entries.
FAQ
At which product structure level are price datasets stored?
Price datasets can be maintained on the products or item level. Though, usually they are maintained on the item level. Maintaining prices on the variant level does not work.
What is the “All suppliers” toggle switch used for?
This toggle switch is used to set whether prices from all supplier levels or whether only prices from the selected supplier level are shown. To do so, set the toggle switch to the appropriate position.
What does the “Only valid” toggle switch do?
This toggle switch is used to set whether all prices are shown or whether only valid prices are shown.
Why can only certain attributes be selected here?
In this tab, you can only select attributes of the attribute scope “Price”. In the “Prices” app you can also show attributes of other attribute scopes. Though, these attributes are read-only.
Why is the button not shown to me when editing attribute values?
As of version 5.6, the right “ipim-portal.product-details.prices.create” is required to save changes on attribute values. Users not possessing this right can make changes to attribute values, but the button is not shown to them.