Configuring Preferred and Partial Items

Partial Items are regular catalog items with certain fields missing.

Figure below displays Add to Cart button for partial items, which displays a dropdown of parametric type options before adding the item.

1. To create a partial item, the IsPartial field must be specified for each item in the catalog.
2. To require users to fill out the value for the fields before the requisition can be submitted, set the isRequiredForOrdering field to true.
3. Parametric types are all possible values allowed for a specific item.
4. Values are set using the parametric name and parametric data fields in the .cif catalog.

Figure below displays example of a Partial items and Parametric type.

Specific catalog items can be actively promoted when configured as a Preferred Item.

1. Customers can direct the organization’s spend towards certain catalog items by configuring them as preferred items.

2. Catalog items configured as preferred items can be identified with icons associated with them in:

   • Catalog search results
   • Requisitions
   • Shopping carts
   • Purchase orders

To configure catalog items as preferred items:

1. Set Is Preferred item field value to true.

2. The SAP Ariba representative runs the PushAndIndexCatalogs task to ensure that all the catalog data available in site is pushed to the new catalog architecture and reindexed.

This task needs to be run the first time one or more catalog items are marked as preferred.

Let us look at preferred items in the following three templates:

• In the CIF template, preferred items can be specified in the Is Preferred Item field.
• The value must be true to be considered a preferred item.

• In cXML, preferred items can be specified using an extrinsic at the item level within ﹤ItemDetail﹥.
• The name of the extrinsic is "IsPreferredItem" and the value is specified between the opening and closing tags of the extrinsic element.
• The value must be true to be considered a preferred item.
• Example:
  • ﹤Extrinsic name="IsPreferredItem"﹥true﹤/Extrinsic﹥

• In the microsoft excel (xlsx) template on the Items tab, preferred items can be specified in the IsPreferredItem field.

• The value must be true to be considered a preferred item.