Global Item Categories

The purpose of Item Categories is explained in Section Construction Item Categories. This page explains the Item Categories topic in much more detail and applies to "Global" Item Categories as well.

Choose Global or Local?

• See the beginning of the article Global Items

To define Item Categories in global scope, open the page "Global Item Categories" by searching it or by navigating to a Roles Center (i.e. Homebuilder, then Catalogues, and select Global Item Categories).

The page has one action - "House Areas".

House Areas

Page "Item Category House Areas" allows a user to define the House Areas that may apply to the Items of the Item Category.

Deletion of a House Area is possible only if the combination of Item Category / House Area does not exist in Planning Lines or in Lot Selection Choices of Lot Selection Packages which are closed, in any of the companies.

• Add House Areas Action Button.
  • This action allows a user to add House Areas to the Global Item Category from the list of House Areas.
  • Select House Areas you would like to add to the Global Item Category and press "Add House Areas to Item Category".

House Areas- Technical Notes

On deletion of a House Area from an Item Category, the system does the following:

• Delete the House Area from the global sub-categories and sub-categories in local companies.
• Delete the House Area from the Global Items of the Global Item Category or its sub-categories;
• Delete House Area from the Construction Items of the corresponding Item Category or its sub-categories.
• Delete Model Item House Areas with the House Area and with the Items of the Item Category or its sub-categories in all companies.
• Delete Color Selections with the House Area and the Item Category or its sub-categories in all companies.
• Delete Lot Selection Choices with the House Area and the Item Category or its sub-categories from open Lot Selection Packages in all companies.

On adding a House Area to a Global Item Category, the system does the following:

• Add the House Area to the sub-categories of the Global Item Category; add the House Area to the sub-categories on the corresponding Item Category in all companies.
• Add the House Area to the Items of the Item Category or its sub-categories.