Hi guys,
I have yet another unusual request.
We are evaluating a project where we need to set up a "reusable" catalog.
The scenario is a company with multiple branches. Each branch can sell global products (available to all branches) and local products (specific to each branch).
The Global products will have different branch-specific identifications but they will all share a common ProductNumber. In order to avoid heavy content management activities for keeping the product enrichment in sync, they would like to have a "product repository" where all global products will be documented, and sync the documentation to the branch variants.
I cannot use the actual Variants for this implementation (for various reasons) not the Family (although I am considering it).
I remember that we have something similar for Data models and Data Sets where a product assigned to a DataSet will inherit the properties and values of the DataSet. I am not sure though if I can use DataSet for this purpose as a lot of properties will be standard fields and not ProductCategoryFields. It would also mean that I would create one DataSet per product (I am not sure if there is any potential performance issue with this).
The alternative would be a custom development allowing the content editors to "publish" the content from the product repository to all branch-specific products.
Any thoughts?
Thank you,
Adrian