Edit an article

Maintain all data of an article – attributes, languages, categories, product group, PDFs and more.

Every article has its own edit page. It is split into tabs on the left. Here you maintain all article data: attribute values such as name, EAN, prices, texts, dimensions and warehouse fields, texts per language, categories, product group and PDFs.

The tabs Images, Mapping and Permissions (shares) have their own pages, see the links below.

Screenshot: Edit page of an article with the vertical tabs on the left and the "Attributes" tab open

Before you start

Your user needs the permission to edit articles (the green pencil in the overview). Some tabs need extra permissions – for example product group, mapping, PDF and core values. Ask your administrator if a tab is missing.
Attribute groups and fields exist, see Attribute groups and Attribute fields.
For the category and product group tabs: Categories and Product groups.

Open an article

Go to Catalogue › Overview (Katalog › Übersicht).
Click the green pencil in the row of the article.

The header shows Item number (Artikelnummer) with a copy symbol (Copy Item Number). Use the field Search for another item (SKU, name) ... (Anderen Artikel suchen (SKU, Name) ...) to jump straight to another article. Overview (Übersicht) brings you back to the list.

Screenshot: Header of the edit page with item number, copy symbol and the search field for another article

Tabs

Tab	What you do there
Attributes (Attribute)	Maintain all attribute values, grouped by attribute group
Languages (Sprachen)	Titles and descriptions per language
Categories (Kategorien)	Assign categories and the main category
Category (Warengruppe)	Assign the product group
Mapping	Other article numbers and marketplace IDs, see Article mapping
PDF	PDFs stored for the article
Basic Values (Grundwerte)	The SKU of the article
Images (Bilder)	Upload and sort images, see Article images
Permissions (Freigaben)	Share the article with clients (only if your company has clients), see Article shares
Sales channel / marketplace tabs	One tab per booked sales channel or marketplace, see Categories and mapping

Attributes tab

The fields are ordered by attribute group. Change the values you need.
Click Save (Speichern) at the bottom. You see "The attributes have been saved" (Die Attribute wurden gespeichert).

Changed articles are automatically marked so that connected marketplaces receive the new data.

Screenshot: Attributes tab with several attribute groups and the Save button

Add an attribute to the article

Click Add Attribute (Attribut hinzufügen).
Pick a group (-- first select a group --), then choose an Attribute Field (Attribut Feld) – or create a new field with New values (Neue Werte).
Enter a value if you like and save.

An attribute you add stays on the article even without a value. You remove it from the article only with its remove symbol.

Example: activate the best-before date

Add the attribute Best-by date (Mindesthaltbarkeitsdatum) to the article, leave it empty and save. From now on, the scanner asks for the best-before date whenever this article is put away or restocked. See Putaway.

Screenshot: "Add Attribute" with the group selection and attribute field drop-down

The global attributes never overwrite a value from a special marketplace field. If an attribute value should be used for a marketplace, leave the marketplace field empty or do not map it.

Field types

Field type	How it behaves
Text, number, date, boolean, HTML editor, table …	Depends on the field type of the attribute field
Required field	Must be filled, depending on the attribute field setting
Owner (Eigentümer)	Also changes which client owns the article
Drop-down (multiple)	You can pick several values. Clearing all values removes the value
Empty field	Stays on the article without a value (works like a switch, e.g. for the best-before date)

Languages tab

Here you maintain the texts of the article per language: Title (Titel), Brief description (Kurzbeschreibung), Description (Beschreibung), Search terms (Suchbegriffe), Meta title (Meta-Titel) and Meta description (Meta-Beschreibung).

Name, short and long description in the Attributes tab are the same texts as the standard language (marked with a flag). What you change there also shows here.
If no language exists yet, you see No language created yet (Noch keine Sprache angelegt). Create languages via Manage languages (Sprachen verwalten), see Article languages.
Delete texts in this language (Texte dieser Sprache löschen) removes the texts of one language.
In the mapping of a sales channel you choose whether a field comes from an attribute or from the texts in the channel's language.

Screenshot: Languages tab with the language tabs, flag of the standard language and the text fields

Categories tab

Use Assign a new category (Neue Kategorie zuweisen) to add a category.
If the article has several categories, click Define as main category (Als Hauptkategorie definieren) on one of them. You see "The main category has been assigned" (Die Hauptkategorie wurde zugewiesen).
Remove an assignment with its remove symbol.

Product group tab

The tab is labelled Category (Warengruppe) in the English interface.

Pick a group under Assign Goods Group (Warengruppe zuweisen) and click Save. You see "The new product group has been saved" (Die neue Warengruppe wurde gespeichert).
Or create a new group right here with Create a new product group (Neue Warengruppe anlegen).

PDF tab

Shows the PDFs stored for the article. If there are none, you see No PDFs stored (Keine PDFs hinterlegt).

Basic Values tab

Shows the SKU of the article.

Changing the SKU can lead to unwanted changes in reports and in history views.

Troubleshooting

Message	Cause	Solution
The Parameters tab is missing! (Es fehlt der Tab Parameter!) / The article Id is missing as a parameter! (Es fehlt die Artikel Id als Parameter!)	The page was opened without a complete link	Open the article from the overview
No attribute groups could be found! Have you already created any? (Es konnten keine Attribut_Gruppen gefunden werden! Hast Du schon welche angelegt?)	No attribute groups exist yet	Create groups, see Attribute groups
This article is being edited by #user# (Dieser Artikel wird von #user# bearbeitet) in the overview	Another user has the article open	Coordinate with that user