Microsoft Dynamics AX

Customer Assortment

As a webshop administrator you can offer an optimized assortment of products to your customers. Offering the best mix of products is essential to customers' satisfaction. This way a webshop administrator can optimize the catalog with products that appeal to all customers as well as products targeted to the individual customers.

Use the Customer assortment table to specify which products should be shown to and hidden from different customers.

To open this table, in Microsoft Dynamics AX click: Webshop > Common > Customer assortment.

Field	Description
Webshop name	Select a webshop. If you have multiple webshops, you can set up customer assortment rules for each webshop separately.
Account code	Specify for whom the rule should be set. Available account codes: Table (Customer) Group (Customer Group)
Account selection	Select a specific customer or a customer group, depending on the selected account code, to whom the customer assortment rule should be applied.
Item code	Specify whether a certain product (Table), products assigned to an item group (Group), a product category (Category) or a product based on some product field (Item field) and its value, should be available or not available to a customer or a customer group. Available item codes: Table (Product) Group (Item Group) Category (Product Category) - only the category hierarchy that is assigned to your webshop can be used Item field - list of fields from the Released products details form     You can create customer assortment rules using item fields starting from Sana 9.3.3.
Item relation	Select a product, an item group, or a product category or a product field based on which a product should be available or not available to a customer or a customer group.
Criteria	Starting from Sana 9.3.5, you can add Criteria for Item fields to filter products by the values of the product fields. This field is available only if you select Item field in the Item code field. Use this field to filter the products by the values of the product fields. It gives you more flexibility in specifying exactly which products should be available or not available to the customers, for example to specify the range of products by their numbers. To do this, you need to create a filter expression. Expressions are created using special symbols. Below you can see which symbols can be used and how to create a filter expression.
Value	This field is not available starting from Sana 9.3.5. Enter or select the necessary value for the Item field. The value is applicable only if you select Item field in the Item code field.
Mode	Specify whether a specific product, an item group, or a product category should be available or not available to a specific customer or a customer group. Available modes: Allow Deny

 NOTE

All products which are added to the Customer assortment table are customer specific. This means that they are shown in the webshop only to the customers set in the customer assortment rules.

 NOTE

Limitation:

If a customer or a customer group is listed in any of the deny rules, the following customer or customer group will not see a product or an item group or a product category from this rule, even if there is another rule which allows to see it.

For example, there is a customer group for which a certain product is denied. And there is another rule, set for an individual customer from this customer group that says that the product that is denied for the customer group is allowed for this specific customer from the group. In this situation the rule which allows to see the product for a specific customer from a customer group does not override the rule which denies a product to be shown to the customer group. Therefore a customer still will not see a product.

Set Up Customer Assortment Using Filters

 NOTE

Applies to: Sana 9.3.5 and higher

Using the Criteria field in the Customer assortment table, you can create filter expressions for product field values and in this way make only certain products available or not available to customers in the Sana webshop.

If you create customer assortment rules using Item field, you can specify a range of items which you want to show to or hide from the customer or customer group.

When you select Item field in the Item code field, then you can select the necessary product field in the Item relation field. Product fields are used to filter products based on their values.

Then, in the Criteria field, you can enter the necessary product value or filter expression using the standard Microsoft Dynamics AX filter criteria and symbols. For more detailed information about special symbols used for filtering in Microsoft Dynamics AX, see "Advanced filtering and query options" on the Microsoft website.

The table below provides the description of basic symbols which can be used to create a filter expression.

Below you can see the examples of how products can be filtered using the product fields, their values and filter expressions (criteria).

Scenario 1

In this case all items in the range of 0001 to 0010 will not be shown to a customer in the Sana webshop.

Scenario 2

In this case two items (0015 and 0032) will not be shown to a customer in the Sana webshop.

Scenario 3

In this case products which are assigned to the product groups with the IDs which come after 0010 will be shown to a customer in the Sana webshop.

Enable Customer Assortment in Sana Admin

If you configure customer assortment rules in Microsoft Dynamics AX, you must also enable them in Sana Admin. Open Sana Admin and click: Setup > Products > Stock and assortment. Three customer assortment modes are available: Complete, Additional and Customer specific.

You must select the one which is appropriate for your catalog setup. For more information about customer assortment settings in Sana Admin, see "Customer Assortment".