Product Overview
One can access the product table view in feed® in several ways.
- In the feed®menu bar on the right side you can click on Products
- In the search bar you can click on the search icon
to get a list of products. - If the search bar is not visible you can click on the magnifier icon on the menu bar, then click on the padlock if you want the search bar present at all time. Then click on the icon next to the padlock to get a list of products.
If you click on Dashboard/My Dashboard in the feed® menu you can: - Click on Active products to view a table of active products in feed®
- Click on any of the Global searches to get a predefined search result product table with filters.
- Click on any of your personal searches you to a predefined search result product table with filters.
- Click on any of the listed values in the Pie charts to get a list of products within that criteria.
Any product filters that is visible on the dashboard will give you a list of products based on the filters they have.
Below the product table, you have the option to navigate back and forth through pages and change the number of products (rows) you wish to see per page. Here you can choose between 10, 20, 50, or 100.
You can also change the language you want to view in the searchresults, but the search result itself is based on the language you have set on your user account in settings
, user information.
In other words, if you click on a search filter that has a textbased search in one language, and you view the results in another language, the search will still list results from the language/field that is in the search, it will only show you the values that is set in the language you choose.
Clicking on the three dots in the top right corner you get the following options:
- Create product
- Edit columns
- Save search
- Save Global Search*
- Generate excel
- Packaging
- Excel export (products or relations)
Create product
You can create a product in feed® by clicking on the three dots in the top right corner of feed® when you are in the product table. or by simply pressing the shortcut "c".
You can also create or update products in feed® via the Excel import or by an integration.
If you create a product in feed® manually you will see the below pop-up menu. The upper language is marked with a symbol and has an asterix sign after Name. This indicates that it is mandatory to fill inn a name on the standard language that has been set in feed®.
The other names are optional, but if you export data to the other languages, it is recommended to fill these out.
The base checkmark will create a base product in feed®.
A base product in feed® refers to the foundational product in a product hierarchy. It serves as the core product from which other variations or configurations can be derived. This base product typically includes essential attributes and specifications that can be inherited by its child products.
Edit Columns
The information displayed in the product table can be configured to show the desired fields. By clicking on the icon with three dots at the top right, a menu will open where you can choose "Edit columns". Here you can search for and add all product header fields, custom attributes, and texts. If feed® is set up with ETIM, you can also add ETIM class or ETIM attributes to the overview. This way, you can customize the overview to display exactly the information you need. The feed® portal saves information about this setup in a cookie locally on your PC so that the last used setup is remembered the next time you access the overview.
You can reset the columns to standard columns (product number, name and status) by pressing the 
icon.
You can add up to 35 visible columns in feed®, but the limit is 150 columns (for Excel export). If you click on he eye icons you turn feed column visibility on or off.
The padlock let you lock columns on the left side. The purpose of this is that you can see key column information if you have a lot of columns (for example "product number" and name).
The third column with icons is just to identify what type of information the column represent (Product, attribute, text, ETIM).
In the view below you can drag and drop the columns in the order you like.
If you want to remove columns, just click on the X mark.
Save search and Save Global search
Update in the view above present you with the columns you have added.
"Update and save search" let you save the search to your dashboard, or update an existing one.
If you want to create a "Global search" that all feed® users will see on their dashboard (and you have superuser or administrator privileges to do so), then just click on Update, and then click on the three dots and choose "Save as global search".
The saved searches for feed Dashboard gives you a quick product overview of information that is important to you or others. In addition to adding the columns you want to see, you can also combine this with filters that narrows the product range to a specified view.
- For more on Dashboards, click here!
- For more on search filters, click here!
Generate Excel
When you have set up the desired columns and performed the desired search filter, it is possible to download the search results as an Excel file. This can be done by clicking on the three dots in the upper right corner, then click on "Generate excel".
When you click on this icon, you will be prompted with "Configurate excel download". Here you choose which languages you want to include for translatable texts (header and product text). For product text you can select multiple languages, and they will appear as additional columns with corresponding language codes in the header. You can also choose whether you want to inherit information from base products to variants in the export, which is selected as the default. It is also possible to opt out of the header row containing import codes for the various data fields, but keep in mind that this information is often necessary if using the API, and they are used in Excel import. When you click "Download as Excel," a job will start in the background. You will be notified when the Excel report completed by a notification over the bell symbol in the top right corner. Click on the bell (1) and then the "Product excel export finished" (2) to be taken to Excel export overview, where you can download the report.
Depending on how many products you have searched for and how much information you have included per product, the export can be quite large and take some time.
For large exports, the result will be split into multiple Excel files and packaged together in a .zip file for download.
Important: Generated Excel exports are automatically deleted after a week. If you wish to keep an export longer than this, you can go to an export in the overview and check "Store indefinitely". If you do this, it will increase the need for storage space.
You can also click on the export line. A window will appear where you can change the name of the report or checkmark it for indefinitely storage. To activate changes choose "Update", or "Delete" if you want to remove the generated excel.
Excel export
If you need to access "Excel export overview" later on, you can click on the three dots in the upper right corner when you are in a product table view, and then select "Excel export".
Packaging
In "Basic data" you can create the packaging types you need. For information on how to do that click here!
You can add a packaging to a product in feed in 3 ways:
- You can add packaging by integration.
- You can add packaging by Excel import.
- You can add packaging manually on the product in feed.
To add packaging manually. Go to the packaging tab on the product, and click on Add Packaging. Then click add.
The packaging will appear on the product and the number shown at the Packaging tab informs you of how many packaging types you have added to the product.
Edit products in product table view, and bulk update
By clicking the "pencil" icon (1) next to the desired column header, the desired column is opened for editing directly in the overview (2). This way, you can quickly and easily work on editing many products efficiently without having to open each product one by one. If you cannot edit a field it is either a read only attribute (due to integration), or the attribute it is not available for that product in the product template..
If you want to update many products with the same value, you can "bulk update" by typing the value in the header (3) after clicking on the "pencil" icon.. Then you have checkboxes available to select which products you want to update on the page (updates will only be possible where the attribute is writable). If you click on the checkmark at header level all products on that page is check marked.
To activate the change click on the disc icon (5).
Based on the checkmarks you made (all or a selection), you will have to confirm the updates before they are processed.