Article components – A_COMPONENTDATA

Components on article level (see also P_COMPONENTDATA) differ for each article, but do not form variants.

Example:

A USB flash drive has the variants at memory size 32GB and 64GB. Depending on the memory size, the speed is different – 32 and 45MB/s. But there is no stick with 32GB and 45MB/s and no one with 64GB and 32MB/s. The access speed could be stored as an article component here.

Please make sure during import that the components of A_VARIANTDATA (variant dimension) and A_COMPONENTDATA (additional, informing article property) are different from each other!

Node	Mandatory	Data type (Length)	Description
A_COMPONENTDATA	N	–	Start of the variant definition
Element: A_COMPONENT	Y	–	Value of the variant dimension
Attribute: identifier	Y	–	Flag for referencing; at TB.IO, the identifier is always "name".
Attribute: key	Y	String(100)	Value for assignment statement, i.e. name of the article component
Attribute: name	N	String(100)	During import, this attribute allows to fill the designation field.
Sub-element: VALUE	Y	String(255)	Contains the valus for the superordinated node; may occur once per language
Attribute: xml:lang	Y	ISO	ISO code according ISO-639

Superordinate element:

Article – ARTICLE