User interface (“Search app”)

“Search type” (): Toggle switch that can be used to switch between the standard search and the list search.

“Pin” (/): Button to pin resp. unpin the card with the search mask.

“Product number”: Search field for entering a product, variant or item number that is to be searched for.

“Search range”: () Toggle switch that can be used to switch between the search for a single number or for a range between two numbers.

“Name”: Search field for entering a product name that is to be searched for.

“Product structure level selector”: Buttons that can used to specify whether the search is carried out product-based or item-based (first introduced in version 5.6).

When the product-based search is active, the search result shows all the items of a product even if a search only captures one or some items of a product. When the item-based search is active, the search result only shows the items that were captured by the search term.

“Advanced search”: Checkbox for activating the advanced search. Using the advanced search you can narrow the search results further down by using attributes and the corresponding attribute values as search parameters.

“Add” (): Button for calling up the dialog box where you can select the attributes whose attribute values are to be used as search parameters for the advanced search.

“Search favorite”: Menu for calling up a search favorite in which search parameters such as attributes resp. attribute values are grouped already. Click here to learn more about this matter.

MANAGE: Button for calling up the dialog box for creating, editing and deleting search favorites.

“Advanced search fields”: Interface with customized search fields for the advanced search. Click here to learn more about this.

“Search mode”: Menu for selecting a search mode that determines according to which principle the search function operates. Click here to learn more about this.

RESET: Button to reset the search.

SEARCH: Button to trigger the search.

“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.

“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.

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.

“Free-text search”: Search field for entering a search term according to which the data in the "Product list" table is filtered.

“Restore” (): Button for resetting the free-text search.

“Show/hide columns” (): Toggle switch that can be used to show resp. hide read-only columns.

: Button to call up the dialog box where you can select the attributes that are to be shown in the "Product list" table as the various columns. The button also features thesubbutton that can be used to expand a menu from which you can select an attribute profile directly.

“Show/hide standard columns” (): Menu for for selecting which of the standard table columns are shown or hidden. Click here to learn more.

“Data view”: Menu for selecting the product structure level that is to be shown. Here you can set whether the table shows either products or their variants resp. items.

“Display”: Menu for selecting whether the data in the table is shown in the form of a list or in the form of tiles.

“Product list”: Table that shows the products, variants or items that were captured by the search.

“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.

“Page navigation”: In case of a multi-page result list, the navigation tools below the table can be used to navigate between the individual pages.