General Info - The Sidebar Follow
The Sidebar
The product sidebar is a mini command center for your products. You can easily see important product information and assignments at a glance and perform actions all without ever leaving the screen you are working on.
What does the sidebar show?
The sidebar gives you quick access to important information regarding your product including:
- Published state - The global control of whether the product is being sent out to publication channels
- Unpublished - product is not being sent to any enabled channels
- Published - product is being sent and synced to all enabled channels
- Workflow State - (if enabled and configured) shows the current selected workflow state of the product
- Categories - displays the current categories to which the product is assigned
- Attribute Sets - shows the current attribute sets assigned to the product
- Attributes - displays any individually assigned attributes outside of attribute sets currently assigned to the product
- Option Set - shows the active option set assigned to the product (for parent products)
- Tags - displays all tags active on the product
- Relations - Shows any related products associated with the product including the relationship type and the related product.
- Hover over the product to see a snapshot of important information
- Price/Channel Box - Displays the enabled channels for the product and the current effective sell price for that channel.
What Can I Do With The Sidebar?
The sidebar gives you quick access to make changes to your product configuration without leaving the page you are working on, including:
- Published state - Control whether the product is syncing to all enabled channels
- Unpublished - product is not being sent to any enabled channels
- Published - product is being sent and synced to all enabled channels
- Clone - allows the creation of a copy of your current product that pre-fills much of the available data
- NOTE: cloning will take you to the new product and will leave the product page you were on
- Workflow State - (if enabled and configured) set the current selected workflow state of the product
- Categories - assign the product to single or multiple categories; can also remove categories
- Attribute Sets - assign or remove attribute sets (groups of attributes) to the product
- Attributes - assign or remove attributes individually to the product
- Option Set - assign an option set to the product which will turn it into a parent product
- NOTE: Do not remove option sets from parents with assigned children
- Tags - add or remove tags from the product
- Relations - add product relations directly from the sidebar
- Hover over the product to see a snapshot of important information and remove relations