Specification Attributes

A specification attribute is a specific characteristic about a product. This could be a physical specification or an immaterial feature.

The total number of specification attributes within the enterprise can be rather large, and not all specification attributes are relevant to all products.

This issue is accommodated by 'linking' the specification attributes to the relevant nodes in the classification or product hierarchies. The specification attributes are then available only to products linked to (or below) these nodes in the hierarchy.

Specification

 Example

Physical specification
  • Color
  • Length
  • Weight
  • Type of material
  • Capacity

Feature
  • Price
  • Country of manufacturer

Each of these examples defines a specific characteristic for a relevant set of products.

Specification Attribute Facts

  • Specification attributes are only available to products (compared to description attributes, which also are available to classifications, images, documents and link types).
  • Specification attributes and their values are always inherited by child objects in the same hierarchy.
  • Specification Attributes are always displayed under their 'Attribute Group Flippers' as which appear under the Description.

Note: Specification attributes can become orphaned. More information can be found in the Linking Orphan Attributes topic in the System Setup documentation here.