In the “Relations” app you can relate products, items and categories. In this way, it is possible to create relations that can be used, for example, to represent special sales cases such as relationss between items and cross-selling items, up-selling items or accessory items.
It depends on your choice of a source type which target types are available. The following table provides an overview of the available combinations:
| Source type | Target types |
| Category | Product |
| Item | Digital asset, item, product |
| Product | Digital asset, category, item, product |
Create relations
For example, in order to create a relation between a source product and a target product, proceed as follows:
- From the “Source type” menu, select the option “Product”.
- Enter the product number of the master product in the “Number list” field

You can also enter multiple numbers in the Number list field to search for multiple products or items. You can separate the numbers either by semicolons or by line breaks.
- Click on the button to carry out the search. Once the search was completed, the product that was search for is shown in the card below.

- From the “Target type” menu, select the option “Product”.
- Enter the product number of the accessory product in the “Number list” field

- Click on the button to carry out the search. Once the search was completed, the product that was search for is shown in the card below.

- Tick the source product.

- Tick the target product.
- Click on one of the two buttons to call up the corresponding dialog box.

- Select a relation type.
- Possibly make further settings.

- In order to finalise the creation of the relation, click on the button. If the process was successful, a corresponding message appears. The relation is now created.
- In order to cancel the process, click on the button.

Edit relation
In order to edit the properties of a relation, proceed as follows:
- Go the “Source relations” resp. to the “Target relations” card.
- From the menu, select a source resp. target type.
- Click on the button to call up the corresponding dialog box.
- Make the appropriate changes.
- In order to save your settings, click on the button. If the process was successful, a corresponding message will appear.
- In order to dismiss your settings, click on the button.
Delete relation
In order to dissolve a relation, proceed as follows:
- Go the “Source relations” resp. to the “Target relations” card.
- From the menu, select a source resp. target type.
- Tick the relation you want to dissove. You can also tick multiple relations.
- In the table, tick the relation you want to dissolve. You can also tick multiple relations.
- Click on the button in the footer.
The button is shown. - Click on the button to confirm the dissolving.
A success message is shown.
Instead of using the button, you can also use the "Delete" icon (
) icon in the respective table row to delete resp. remove individual entries.
) icon in the respective table row to delete resp. remove individual entries.
Rights
Apart from the basic rights listed here, a user needs the rights that are shown in the table.
The identifier of rights are not shown correctly here as hyphens are shown as half square dashs. In order to search for a particular right in iPIM CC, copy the key to the clipboard and search for the key.
| Key | Identifier | Description |
| ipim.apps.toolbox.product-relations | iPIM Apps – Product relations | Right to use the “Relations” app |