The Advance SKU Search feature in PCC enables you to customize conditions which can be used to find SKU data matching the conditions applied in a selected catalog. The SKU data displayed can then be edited to perform various SKU related functions. For example, in any e-commerce site, when you search for a product, based on the keywords entered, all possible matches are displayed. Similarly, in PCC, let us consider a catalog for accessories such as sunglasses, watches and so on. Now, if you want to find sunglasses which are black in Color, belong to a Brand named Rayban and reside in a node Sunglasses, you can build a condition mentioning these criteria and search for it and all products matching these criteria will be displayed. If any changes need to be made in all these SKUs, it can be done easily as all the filtered data is displayed together. These conditions built can be saved and reused whenever needed to locate the required data. Also, an already saved condition can be reused while building a new condition to refine the search further.
This feature is useful when you want to locate products that have some common properties, or you need to edit the values of products belonging to a specific category as the data is displayed based on the conditions created.
A detailed description of how to build, save and use these conditions to search the required data is explained in the following sections:
To use the advanced search feature, as you log into PCC, hover on the upper-left corner and click on Catalog > Advance SKU Search as shown below.
The following page appears.
Here, you can build and save the conditions created to search the required SKU data.
Click the field next to Search SKU(s) in Catalog and a drop-down with a list of catalogs appears. Select the required catalog for which you need to build the condition as shown below.
Alternatively, Advance Search can be invoked directly from the catalog using the following options.
In the Catalogs listing page, click the Advance SKU Search
icon on the catalog you want to work with as shown below.
The following screen appears with the catalog name already selected.
OR
If you are already working in a catalog, click the Advance SKU Search icon on the upper-right corner of the middle panel as shown below.
The following screen appears with an option to select the last catalog visited as shown below.
Here, you can either select the last visited catalog or select another catalog from the drop-down list.
Once the catalog is selected, you can build a condition using any of the following or both the options:
Condition Category – Here, you need to select a category from the 4 options or select multiple categories to build complex conditions which can be saved or run to load the required data
Saved Condition – Here, you can run the existing conditions or use them to build complex conditions to load the data.
The process to build a condition and view the search results is explained in the following sections respectively:
Let us understand the various condition categories available.