Overview
You may need a product that uses content available from another product... such as, you have 5x7 flat cards enabled, but would like to offer them printed on cardstock at a premium price. You cannot simply add the product again and change the name/price–as you probably have tried. Instead, there is a way to copy the product, so it has a new ID, but is tethered to the originating one, so it can take advantage of all the content. There are two steps to this, one for the retailer and one for PF support staff.
The Retailer-Side Setup
Example of when you need this: You want to offer cards that are different stock paper and at a different price but have them show all the Standard and IPI content! OK!
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IPI Content
5x7 folded card
product ID 3371100
DB ID 321665 (this means database ID–you can find it listed alongside the product in myLab or in the right info panel when you click on the product in Lab 50)
Instructions for creating the apmconfig_products_custom.xml …
You only need to do this step if you want to handle the new product differently than you handle the original product. And, you won’t have a custom products file unless you have created custom products previously. You need to create one…it looks like this (all new entries go between the
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