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ATTENTION: Moving individual EANs between products is heavily discouraged! What are the risks? •Re-assignment, deletion and re-import of an existing EAN to another product (P_ID) can cause severe identifier errors. •Offer blocks may prevent your assortment from going online on the marketplace resulting in monetary loss. |
How to re-assigning EANs step by step:
In certain cases in which you have to re-assign an article to another product, you can do the following:
•Stop the export of your product data to channel
oDeactivate the affected article for Zalando
How to (de-)activate your assortment for a channel
There are three ways to (de-)activate articles. •Manually in the Graphical User Interface o Channel De-Activation ▪Open the article list ("Articles > Article list"). ▪Open an article by clicking on the article number. ▪Go to the menu section "Channel-specific article activation" and de-select each channel where you want to deactivate your article. ▪Save your settings. ▪The article is now be inactive and will not be exported to all target channels with the next regular data exchange. •Via XML oTB.Cat 1.2/1.3: . ▪De-/activate each article via its <A_ACTIVE> node. Articles that are deactivated here will not be exported to any channel. ▪Both de-/activations must be set for articles to go live. oTB.Cat 1.4: ▪Set the global activation in article's child node <A_ACTIVE>. ▪Configure channel-specific activations in the child nodes of <A_ACTIVEDATA>. ▪Each child node is named <A_ACTIVE>. Indicate the target channel by providing its channel sign (for example, "zade" for Zalando.de) in the XML-Attribute "channel". ▪Both de-/activations must be set for articles to go offline/live. o (De-)activate articles with boolean values. ▪1 = active ▪0 = inactive •Via CSV oChoose one option and use it consistently to avoid errors. A CSV file containing both columns "a_active[channel]" and "p_active[channel]" will be rejected. oDe-/activate articles with boolean values. ▪1 = active ▪0 = inactive oOn article level: ▪Provide the columns "a_active" and "a_active[channel]" in the CSV file (PANDA) you import. ▪The column "a_active" sets the global activation state for the article. ▪The column "a_active[channel]" sets the channel-specific activation state. |
•Prepare a list that contains
othe affected article EANs.
othe old product.
othe new product to which the article should be assigned to.
•Contact Zalando Support and provide the aforementioned list.
ATTENTION: |
•Wait for confirmation that the issue is resolved by Zalando Partner Care. Zalando has to remove the old Product-Article-relations on their end.
•Re-activate your articles and start a new export with the updated information.
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