Product search – novomind iPIM Documentation

Using the product search function you can search for a particular product whose product data can then be viewed and edited in the different tabs of the app.

User interface

“Pin” (/): Icons to pin resp. unpin the “Search” card.

“Product number”: Search field for entering a product or item number.

“Status”: Chip that indicates the status of the called-up product:

ACTIVE: The product has the status “Active”. That means the “Deleted [iPIM]” menu on the dashboard is set to NO.
DELETED: The product has the status “Deleted”. That means the “Deleted [iPIM]” menu on the dashboard is set to YES.
ARCHIVED: The product is archived. The display of this status is prioritized over the other statusses.

RESET: Button that is used to reset the search.

SEARCH: Button that is used to carry out the search.

“Expand/collapse” (/): Icons to expand resp. collapse the items of the called-up product.

“Filter” (/): Icons to call up the dialog box to use the filter function resp. to reset the filter.

Product structure level indicator: Indicator to indicate the various product structure levels (Red = product, Green = variant, Blue = item).

Product structure: Product structure of the called-up product.

Checkboxes: Checkbox to select the called up products or its variants resp. items.

Use the product search

To search for a product, proceed as follows:

In the search mark: Enter the product number to be searched for in the “Product number” field .
Click on the SEARCH button to trigger the search.
The respective product and its variants are shown below the search field.

Keep in mind that you have to enter an exact product number. Otherwise the search function will not deliver a result.

Expand/collapse items

To expand the items of a particular variant, click on the “Expand” icon () which is situated in the row of the respective variant.
To collapse the items of a particular variant, click on the “Collapse” icon () which is situated in the row of the respective variant.
To expand all the variants and items at once, click on the “Expand all” icon ().

The different product structure levels are coded with different colours. The product level is rust red, the variant level is green and the item level is blue.

Call up product data

To call up the product data in the table on the right side, tick the product, a variant or an item. You can also tick multiple entities.
The corresponding product data is shown in the table.

The kind of product data which is displayed in the right-side table depends on the respective tab of the “Product details” app.

Filter function

Use the filter function

Using the filter function, you can search for particular variants and items. To do so, proceed as follows:

Untick all the possible ticked checkboxes. Otherwise the filter function will not work.
Click on the “Filter” icon () to call up the dialog box where you can set the filter parameters.
Set the desired filter parameters:
- To search for the items of a particular variant, select the respective dimensioning attribute from the corresponding menu.
- First introduced in version 5.5.1: To search for a particular item, enter the item number in the respective search field.

To apply the filter, click on the FILTER button.
All the variants and items which the selected filter parameters apply to will be ticked and the corresponding product data are shown in the table of the right-hand table.
To cancel the process, click on the CANCEL button.

Keep in mind that you cannot use the filter function in every tab of the “Product details” app.

Reset the filter function

To reset the filter function, click on the “Reset filter” icon ().

Reset the search field

To reset the search, click on the RESET button. Following this, the entered product number vanishes from the search field and the respective product is no longer shown.