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How to create Combi Groups

Daniel

In certain circumstances non-furniture catalogues will contain variations of the same product, but the nature of the non-furniture catalogue structure gives the appearance of duplicate products on the site with no obvious indication of any differences.

This is down to how the supplier supplies the catalogue data to EQ Software initially.

Combi Groups allows you to group these products together, and give an option on the site by way of a drop down list or product link making the differences clearer to the end user.

 

Below is an example of a Towel Rail that comes in 4 variants of Qty of Elements:

If this is exported to a website, each product would be displayed on their own product page without any indication that other variations are available.

 

Create a Combi Group

  1. Highlight all the products by clicking on the first one in the list, pressing the CTRL key and clicking the last one in the list.

  2. Right-click the highlighted list > Create Combi Group>
    You will be presented with the following screen:



  3. Complete Prompt Caption. It is the heading text of the option and should be an indication of what the variation is. (e.g. Size or Colour)

  4. Complete Master. The combi group requires a Master product to lead the rest of the variations list; ticking the box next to the relevant product indicates the Master product.

  5. Complete Popup Text | This is the text that will appear in the drop-down list displayed on-line.

  6. Once these are set-up, select Update to save the settings, and the new group should appear like the following screen:



    The Master product is in Bold, and the variations are grey beneath. The pop-up text also appears next to each product.

     

     

The catalogue can now be exported as normal for the on-line changes to take effect.

 

The products will now appear online showing the additional options available on the individual product pages. Examples below:


Product Listing page only displays master item, grouped items will show inside the dropdown list:


 

 

Product Details page only displays master item, grouped items will show inside the dropdown list:

 

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