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Search results: Product Master

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Be able to selectively export individual records out of Catalogs using the Java API

When you have multiple IBM Product Master Environments, some for development and some for production, you may want to promote changes from development to production. However, if some records in a catalog are still in development when other records...
5 months ago in Product Master 3 Functionality already exists

Allow search results returned by a full text search to be configurable

Allow the search results returned by a full text search done by the magnifying glass at the top of the screen to be configurable so that as well as displaying the 'Primary id', it can also display other columns which are useful in identifying the ...
about 4 years ago in Product Master 1 Functionality already exists

Allow role based access of specific hierarchies, specs and lookup tables

Currently different users within our business are able to modify specific hierarchies or attributes. However, just because a user can modify one of those areas does not mean they should be able to access all areas. For example, a marketing user ma...
about 4 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Attribute Properties Hidden not available for Lookup Specs

We had an use case to keep the primary key to be sequenced provided the legacy data should be loaded to the table with its own sequence and then later the primary keys have to be autogenerated. This was achieved by maintaining an internal sequence...
over 2 years ago in Product Master 1 Future consideration

Better name for paste row functionality

The multi-edit screen has a functionality for "copy row" and "paste row". It turns out that "paste row" does not paste the values of the row visible in the UI - which might have many tabs and only a small subset of attributes might be visible in t...
about 3 years ago in Product Master 0 Delivered

MDM CE NEW UI - Needing of the "Actions" button of multi-edit links redirected from the Custom Tools and Entry Previews

The users are needing the "Actions" button to perform different tasks on items that are resulted from the redirect. 1. What is the use case for Custom Search Tool which cannot be fulfilled using the Search Menu provided with New UI ? The users are...
over 6 years ago in Product Master 0 Delivered

Item Export sheet should show the drop-down list of Display Attribute for Lookup type attribute.

Current Behaviour: When we export the item, the lookup attribute is exported only as a primary key(the drop-down list contains primary key.) Idea/Requirement: In the Item Export for the lookup type attribute user should have choice to export as pr...
almost 4 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Allow value rules to be triggered by onchange events rather than Saving

We have a lot of attributes in our primary spec where the value is determined by the value selected in another field using a value rule. If the value in the first field is changed, the value in the second field is only updated when a user clicks S...
about 4 years ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration

Display non generic error message when item import fails

When a user attempts to create items via the Import button in the Persona UI and the import fails, the error message displayed is completely generic and does not inform the user why it has failed. We receive the message 'The Job did not complete s...
over 4 years ago in Product Master 0 Delivered

API services required to allow attributes of an item to be updated from an external source

Real life scenario: Our primary spec contains a unit_cost attribute which is managed in an upstream system but is something we would like to display on the item as read-only for end users. When an update is done to the cost in the upstream system ...
over 5 years ago in Product Master 0 Delivered