Setting up a collection relationship for standalone items
In some categories (jewellery, apparel for example), it might be interesting for you to build an additional collection relationship between your items. This collection relationship will help the customer to find the bracelet that goes well with the necklace, the bag that goes well with the jacket.This feature has to be used for items of the same product line only.
It will result in:
+ Collection parent- Standalone item
- Standalone item
Requirements
In order to build a collection relationship, you need to:
- Have a basic XML knowledge (enough to create an XML file)How to?
Preamble
Assuming you have all descriptive data loaded for those items (title + description + pictures)
You now have to link the ‘collection’ parents to the ‘item’ parents like this:
+ Product line ‘Cleopatra’ Jewellery (SKU ‘PLParent00A’)- Standalone item (SKU ‘001’)
- Standalone item (SKU ‘002’)
No need to submit any other info for the standalone items: title, description etc. are already stored in our database.
Technical part
Creating the collection relationship
You now have to create an XML feed to create this relationship.
It’ll basically look like:
Creating image content for relationship parents
You now have to create an XML feed to upload images for the relationship parent.
It’ll basically look like:
Final display
How do I submit the XML files after I create them?
Posted by: Oleg from OglieOglie | 02/02/2010 at 07:14 AM