Publish products

Publish a single product

To publish a product:

1. Select a product in the grid,
2. Open the product form
3. Click on the "..." in the top right corner of the screen
4. Select Publish this version in the dropdown

The current version will be published. In the History tab, the published version is indicated by a blue Published button as shown below:

If you click on the arrow to open the complete History page, the published version will have the Published label, as shown below:

Publish several products at once

To publish several products simultaneously:

1. Select products in the product grid
2. Click on the Bulk Actions button at the bottom of the screen, select the Publishaction
   • Choose the Publish products operation and click on Next:
   • If you have the own permission on all the products you have selected, follow the steps and all the selected products will be published
   • If you have the own permission on some of these products: a message will inform you that you will only be able to publish the relevant products on which you have the own right. Then, follow the steps and only the products you manage will be published. The other products will not be published
   • If you do not have the own permission on any of the selected products: an error message will inform you that you do not have permission to publish these products. Click on the Back button to exit the mass edit process

List the published products

To check which products are published:

1. Go to the Product grid
2. Click on the "..." in the top right corner of the screen
3. Select Published Products in the dropdown

Note that some features are not available from this grid:

• You will not be able to create a new product from this page
• You will not be able to delete any published products
• You will not be able to edit any published products

The views are specific to the published product grid. Hence, the views of unpublished products are not shared with the grid of published products.

Attributes, families, groups and categories are taken into account by published product versions and cannot be deleted.

Only one mass action is available on published products: Unpublish.

View a published product

From the published product grid:

1. Go to the published product grid
2. Select a published product
3. Its product form is displayed

From the product grid:

1. Click on the "..." in the top right corner of the screen
2. Select Published products in the dropdown
3. The published product grid is displayed
4. Select a published product
5. Its product form is displayed

Product information are displayed the same way as in the product form, to learn more about the product form, read the Enrich your product article. Permissions are also applied on published products, so if you do not have the appropriate rights to see some attribute groups, they will not be displayed.

When you own the ongoing published product, there are two actions available in the header on the right side:

• Edit the current product version (working copy): clicking on this button will redirect you to the unpublished product form.  
  
• Unpublish: to unpublish this product

Unpublish products

Unpublishing products remove the product’s version from being used in the published product exports.

Unpublishing products only impact the export of published products. The export of attributes, categories, etc does not take into account the concept of unpublishing product.

Unpublish a single product

You can unpublish a product from the main product form or from the published product grid.

From the published product grid:

1. Go to the published product grid (click on the ... on the top right corner of the product grid screen)
2. Click on the small papersheet icon displayed on product rollover in the grid (see screenshot below)

From the product grid:

1. Go to the product grid
2. Select the product to unpublish
3. Click on the ... on the top right corner,
4. Click on Unpublish

The product will no longer be published and the product will not be listed anymore in the published product grid.

Unpublish several products at once

To unpublish several products at the same time:

1. Go to the published product grid (click on the ... in the top right corner of the product grid screen)
2. Select published products in the grid, the bulk action menu will appear at the bottom of the screen
3. Click on Bulk action
4. Then click on Unpublish button  
   
5. Select the Unpublishoperation:
   • If you have the own permission on all the products you have selected, follow the steps and all the selected products will be unpublished.
   • If you have the own permission on some of these published products: a message will inform you that you will only be able to unpublish the relevant products on which you have the own right. Then, follow the steps and only the products you own will be unpublished. The other products will not be unpublished.
   • If you do not have the own permission on any of the selected products: an error message will inform you that you do not have permission to unpublish these products. Click on the Back button to exit the mass edit process.