Did You Know with Advanced Part Management, front-end admins can manage part categories and create new parts?

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Advanced Part Management is a new optional portal-level setting that empowers front end administrators with new capabilities to organize, create, and manage parts efficiently.

This new feature introduces several powerful capabilities that your clients and front-end admins can use to take a more active role in part management.

Part Categories Management

Front end admins can now add, edit, and manage Part Categories directly from the front end interface. This includes:

  • Creating new part categories
  • Managing associated users and user groups for each category
  • Assigning parts to specific categories
  • Controlling category hierarchy and rankings for better organization

Part Creation from Templates

Advanced Part Management introduces a templated approach to part creation:

  • Create new parts using existing parts as templates
  • Copy all part specifications, images, prices, categories, and more to the new part
  • Streamline the creation process while maintaining consistency across similar parts

Benefits to the Client

  • Efficiently manage your product catalog with customizable categories and hierarchies.
  • Quickly create new parts by leveraging existing templates.
  • Automatically hidden from the storefront, usage of template parts ensures only relevant products are displayed to end users.

How It Works

Setting Up Advanced Part Management

Enable the Portal-Level Setting

Advanced Part Management is a portal-level setting. To enable:

  1. Navigate to Portals > Select Customer > Settings.
  2. In the User Experience section, find the setting called Allow Advanced Part Management.
  3. Set to Yes.
  4. Save.

Designate templates

A new option, “Is Front End Template,” is available in the back end part details. When this flag is enabled for a part, it designates that part as a template.

Note: Parts flagged as “Is Front End Template” will not appear in your storefront’s browse or search pages. They are exclusively available within the management pages for template-based creation.

Using Advanced Part Management

Manage categories

Navigate to Admin > Parts. Then click Part Categories to create, rename, rank, and nest categories, then assign users or groups who can manage each one.

Create a new part

If a portal has Advanced Part Management enabled, administrators will find a “Part Templates” option on the Part Maintenance page. Admin > Parts. The Part Templates page will show all available part templates that have been set up in the back end. To create a new part from a template part:

  • Click Create Revision
  • Enter a unique SKU, name, and description.
  • Save. 

The system will copy all specs, images, prices, and category assignments from the template part to the new part.

If you have any questions or would like help turning on Advanced Part Management, reach out to us at support@propago.com

Published by Austin Wyman