The data model has been enhanced to allow the maintenance of channel-specific references for products, variants, and items. This includes all merchandizing references between products, variants, and items and gives more context to the reference type. Enabling for example, the setup to have a "cross-sell" reference only valid in context of a certain channel like the online store.

Technically this has been realized by adding to the

ArticleReferenceType

repository entity type and all custom entities which are based on it 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 it, the repository needs to be adjusted. For details please take a look at the tec hnical documentation package under the chapter "Channel specific references" available in the "Installation and Operation" ZIP file.