Specifies whether to force the update of a variant level attribute (VLA) value down from a
VARIANT GROUP
product to all child VARIANT
products.
This flag is only taken into consideration for VARIANT GROUP
products and only where the attribute is
currently set as a VLA on the VARIANT GROUP
product.
If omitted, the default value false
will be used which means that possible VLA values on a VARIANT GROUP
product will not be enforced down to child VARIANT
products.
Note that forceVla
flag is only taken into consideration when the attribute change will be an update
operation but not an add value (insert) operation on a VARIANT
product.
This means that a child VARIANT
product will get the new value if it does not have the attribute assigned or
an attribute value defined even if forceVla
is false
while other child VARIANT
products that already have
an attribute value defined will be left unchanged.
This is because a VARIANT
product without the attribute or without an attribute value defined is treated as
an add value (insert) operation while the other VARIANT
products are treated as update operations.
For more detailed information on working with VLAs in Bluestone PIM, refer to our help pages The data model -
Variant Level Attribute (VLA).