Making a Product as Display Product

This section describes how to link products in a group together, so that only one product gets displayed on the eWeb and switching between products using the Color and Size/Type option can be done on one page. To make this process work, you must make a Merchandise product a display product and link other Merchandise products having different colors and sizes/types to this product as related products

To make a product a display product:

  1. Open the Merchandise product that you want as a display product in eWeb.
  2. On the Merchandise profile page, click Edit tab and then click the Web information link from the drop-down list. This will display the Online Information window.
  3. On the Online Information window, select display product? check box.
  4. Once you select the display product? check box, the display product store name field will appear.

  5. Enter a product store name as desired in the display product store name field.
  6. If a product is a display product, the display product store name will display in Merchandise Category product list. If a product is a display product and a featured product, the product will display in the featured section using the display product store name.
  7. If searching for a product by name, the display product and all its related products will display in the search results.

  8. In all three cases, you will be able to select size/type and color on the online store product page.

  9. Click Save.

Linking a Merchandise Product to the Display Product

This section describes how to link a Merchandise product to the display product. Before proceeding with below steps, make sure you have created a display product. Refer to Making a Product as Display Product for details.

To link a Merchandise product to the display product:

  1. Open a Merchandise product that you want as a related product in eWeb.
  2. On the Merchandise profile page, click the Edit tab and click the Web information link from the drop-down list. This will display the Online Information form.
  3. In this form, click the display product drop-down field and you will see that the newly added display product store name is listed in the drop-down field.
  4. Select the newly added display product from the display product drop-down field.
  5. Important! By selecting the display product from the drop-down field, you are linking this product with the display product. This is necessary for grouping all the similar products together for color and size/type selection in eWeb.

  6. Repeat steps 6 to 9 for linking other Merchandise products with the display product. This will link products as a child product under the display product.

Changing Display Product

This section describes how to select a different product to be the display product.

To select another product as the display product:

  1. Open the existing Merchandise product of the current display product.
  2. On the Merchandise profile page, click Edit tab and then click the Web information link from the drop-down list. This will display the Online Information window.
  3. On the Online Information window, clear display product? check box. This will populate a message above the display product? check box stating, ‘Please choose new Display Product for linked products.’ Click Save.
  4. Now, open the Merchandise product that you want as a display product in eWeb.
  5. On the Merchandise profile page, click Edit tab and then click the Web information link from the drop-down list. This will display the Online Information window.
  6. On the Online Information window, select display product? check box.
  7. Once you select the display product? check box, display product store name field appears.

  8. Enter a product store name as desired in the display product store name field. This store name will act as a main product for all the child products that will be linked with this product.
  9. Click Save.
  10. To link all the products that you want to have under this display product, follow and repeat the Linking a Merchandise product to the Display Product steps.