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Version: 1.0

Flows Service Introduction

With flows, you can:

  • in Commerce, define custom data fields for the resources that you use in your store or organization, such as adding more fields to the customer resource. You can also create new resources, such as a wishlist resource to support wishlists in your store. With flows, you can apply Composable Commerce to almost any use case. See Flows in Commerce Manager.
  • in Product Experience Manager, attach a specific set of attributes for your products. In Product Experience Manager, flows are called templates. See Templates in Product Experience Manager.

You can create flows/templates at both organization and store level.

caution

Custom names and values prefixed with $ are not supported.

Flows in Commerce​

You can define custom data fields for the resources that you use in your store or organization, such as adding more fields to the customer resource. You can also create new resources, such as a wishlist resource to support wishlists in your store. With flows, you can apply Composable Commerce to almost any use case.

caution
  • In an organization, not all resources are available. See Extend a resource for a list of organization resources that can be extended.
  • If you store any sensitive Personal Identifiable Information (PII) or non-public data on your site, ensure that you do not use this data in flows to avoid potential access to the data. For more information, see Permissions.

Templates in Product Experience Manager​

Templates allow you to attach a specific set of attributes to your products.

  • You can use templates to define characteristics of your product, for example, a product specification. For example, a Book template might contain attributes, such as ISBN, Author, Number of pages, Year Published, or Condition (New/Used).
  • You can use templates for Search Engine Optimization (SEO). When you assign template attributes such as, care instructions or fabric, to a shirt and a shopper searches for a specific item, attributes help stores to return the products that match the search criteria. For example, when a shopper searches for a large blue shirt, all shirts that are large and blue are returned in the search result.

Authentication​

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