Versions

This guide explains how to create new versions of a product for managing sales, purchase, or inventory transactions. Versioning allows you to add or remove product features, create new collections, and manage sub-products of composite products.

CONTENTS

• Purpose of Versioning
• Collection Versioning
• Composite Product Versioning
• Unpublished Version
• Creating a New Version

Purpose of Versioning

Multiple versions of a product can be created to enable the formation of models for individual products involved in sales, purchase, or inventory transactions, or to add or remove features from existing product models, thus allowing the creation of new collections.

A new version copies the existing version's name, all product information, and attributes linked to the product, but does not automatically form models from them. After creating the version, the user can add or remove attributes from the product and form the desired new collection.

Collection Versioning

A new version copies the existing attributes of the models, allowing the user to add or remove attributes and form a new collection from them.

Composite Product Versioning

A new version copies the existing sub-products of a composite product, but without them being set for the product. The user can then search for and set new sub-products for the product or remove existing ones.

In version management, it is important to note that only one version can be published at a time, meaning only one version can be handled in sales, purchases, or inventory management at a time.

Unpublished Version

The product information of an unpublished version can be managed normally without publishing the version. Unpublished products can be listed in the product listing, but their sales, purchase, and inventory handling is restricted.

Creating a New Version

A new version is created on the product card's "Version Management" tab using the "Create New Version" button.

For the new version, the following are created:

• Version number
• Existing product code
• Existing product name

For the version, you can enter a different:

• Product code
• Product name
• Default description

The version is published by checking the "Publish this product" box (see image above, point 1) and pressing the "Create Version" button (2), after which the created version appears as published on the "Version Management" tab (3).

Switching the Published Version

Publishing another version is done by clicking the "Edit" icon next to the desired version and performing the same actions as when publishing a new version. When a version is published, the previous version is automatically removed from publication.

Updating Product Information of an Unpublished Version

Information of an unpublished version can be updated without having to publish it first. On the product card, there is a version menu on the right side of each tab, from which you can switch to view the information of any version on the fly. These details can then be updated normally.

Keywords: version, versioning, collection, composite product

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