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==Using Demo Data Examples==
This section of the User Guide is about detailed set-up for Configurable Products.  We will use an example-product from the '''opentaps''' Demo Data, which is available for viewing or installation.  

You can view the Demo Data on the public server located at:
 [http://demo1.opentaps.org/opentaps/control/main demo1.opentaps.org].
 Login with Username: admin
            Password: ofbiz
 Click: [Login]
 The Main Navigation page opens displaying all of the large navigation Icons.
 Move your Mouse Pointer over any large Icon to see a Text Title for the Icon at the
     top of the screen.
 Click: a large Icon to open '''opentaps''' to the corresponding page.

The example-product is found in the Catalog with: 
*     Product name =  Configurable PC, and 
*     product ID = PC001.  
To Navigate to the example-product, for this section,
 Click: Catalog Icon, to open the Catalog Manager Application
 In "Search Products" menu box, upper left-hand corner, 
 Type into the blank box above the [Product Jump] Menu Button: PC001
 Click: [Product Jump] menu button, a drop down opens.
 Select: Product, the page opens for the demo product with ID of PC001 
      to "Edit Product" Screen.


==Defining the Base Configurable Product==
A base Configurable Product is set up like any, as described in [[Setting_Up_Your_Products_and_Sales_Materials]].  Our example,
PC001, is what we refer to as the base Configurable Product, it is the part for which additional Component Products are selected by "configuration choices" to make the product complete and ready to purchase. 

 To define a Configurable Product, as in this example;
   * Set the Product Type = Configurable Good 
   * Click: [Update Product] to save changes.

Once this is saved, the "Edit Product" page will include the special Sub-Tab called "Configurations" which we will discuss later.


==Specifying Config Items==

 Access the following screen,
 [Catalog] > [Catalog Manager Application] > [Configurations], 
      the "Find Config Items" page opens with a search box menu at the top.
 Click: [Find], to open a list of any existing Config Items that are already defined.
 
On the Demo1.opentaps.org system, this page displays several Config Items:
* IT0001 -- Hard Drive
* TEXMEX0001 -- Jalapenos
* PZ0001 -- (pizza) Toppings

 To create an additional Config Item, Click: [New Config Item] box, or 
 To review settings for an item, Click: Config Item (ID) entry. For Hard Drives, 
 Click: IT0001, the "Edit Config Item" page opens, to display:
 Edit or Enter: the following entries as needed,
  * Config Item Type -- Single Choice (select only one), Multi Choice (chose one or more)
  * Config Item Name -- Your assigned Config Item name for Display to Customers
  * Description -- Your description for display to Customers
 Click: [Update] to save changes.

Config Items define sets of similar products from which to make configuration choices.  In the following section, we will add a set of such configuration choices.


==Specifying Config Options (the choices)==

Next, open the Config Options screen as follows:
 At the top of the last screen (Edit Config Item for IT0001), 
 Click: [Config Options] button, the "Edit Config Options" screen opens.

The Config Item box displays any Options that are already defined.  In the example, the existing Options are:
* Option ID OP002 (with Option Name OPT001) -- a 250GB Hard Drive, and
* Option ID OP003 (with Option Name OPT002) -- a 500GB Hard Drive.

To add one more Option for this example, go to the "Create new Config Options" menu box below, and enter the following data:
* Config Option Name -- for example, Enter: OPT003
* Description -- for example, Enter: 1 TB
* Sequence Num -- for example, Enter: 30 (to control the sequence of this item in the display list for Customers to see.)
 Click: [Create] to save this additional Option and add it to the list above.
This adds a new Config Option to the list.

 Warning: If you try this example on the public demo1 web-site, your changes will not
     be fully recorded.

This completes the initial set-up steps in configuring the Product.  Later we will link our new Option to the exact physical product that we ship with the Configurable PC in our example.


[[Step-By-Step_Configurable_Product_Set-up]] << Manual Pages >> [[Defining_The_Component_Products_and_Linking_to_Config_Choices]]

[[Introduction_to_Catalog_Manager_Concepts_and_Terminology]] << Section Pages >> [[More_About_Working_with_Categories_and_Catalogs]]