When you use the PDW to create a new product, the system uses data exported from the PDW. The fields in the Product record are mapped to corresponding metadata items in the PDW Catalog. When a PDW metadata item needed to populate a field in a new product record does not contain a value, the system populates the field with a default.
To define defaults, create a PDW product template, as follows:
Create a product in Product Maintenance with a description, such as *** PDW TEMPLATE ***, that identifies the record as the PDW template. Assign a Nonstock status to the record. Set the values for the other fields to the appropriate defaults.
Note: In certain cases determined by the Eclipse installer, you might set up a product template for each buy line.
Assign the record to the PDW Product Template control maintenance record. If you do not assign a PDW product template, when the system exports data from the PDW Catalog to a new product record, any fields in the primary product file that are not mapped to a corresponding field in the PDW Catalog blank are left blank.
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