Product types

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Product types include additional attributes for products.
All products have the same standard attributes such as product number, name, and description. In addition, additional attributes can be assigned such as colour or size. Such additional attributes are defined in the product type. Through assigning a product type to a product, additional attributes for the product can be used. Product types thus allow grouping of products with similar qualities.
If you change the product type assignment, you change the set of additional attributes for the product. The current additional attributes of the product are displayed in the general product details in the Attributes section. See Attributes.
A special type is the Source product type. For one thing, this new product type will be automatically assigned to new products. For another, this is the source product type for all other product types. All attributes of this product type are passed to the other product types when they are created. In this way, you can specify additional attributes that apply to all products. The shared additional attributes can only be deleted via the source product type.
The source product type itself cannot be deleted.
Note : If you do not want any shared additional attributes, delete all attributes from the source product type.
Caution: A product type can only be deleted as long as no products are assigned to it.

Import and export

You can import and export product types.
Required for import is the [Alias] field.
If the [Alias] is empty, the system uses the standard product type and changes its values.
If a columns in the import file do not contain any values, the values in the database will not be changed.
You can read a general description about importing and exporting in the chapter Import and export.