Starting with this release, Product 360 allows to maintain channel-specific references for products, variants and items. This includes all kinds of merchandising associations between objects of type product, variant or item. So it gives more meaning to the reference type. For example, having a "Cross-sell" reference for special channels like the Webshop.

Technically it means, that the

ArticleReferenceType

repository entity type and all custom entities which are based on this entity type have got an additional logical key "Channel". By default, this feature is disabled to be compliant with older versions and the logical key for the channel is set to "Default channel".

To enable this functionality the repository needs to be adjusted. For details please take a look at the Technical Documentation package under the chapter "Channel specific references" available in the Installation and Operation ZIP file.