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Property is the basic capturing unit of a product/category behavior. We should create properties first and later assign them to the product/category definition. One thing many developers don’t know is that we can also create capturing units of a property, i.e., we can create a top level property behavior with the set of available properties and we can associate top level property to a product or category.

For example, I would like to associate a Boolean value which says whether the property can be exported to partners or not. The steps to follow are

1. Open Commerce Server Catalog & Inventory Schema manager.

2. Click on “Property Definition” under views.

3. Click on “Create New Property” under task.

4. Create a Boolean property named “IsExported” as shown below.

5. Now click on “Edit Property Metadata” under tasks. A new windows gets opened.

6. Click “Is Exported?” from available properties list and click add button. Now the property will move to Assigned properties list.

7. Now click Save & Close.

Now we have associating a new property to the property metadata. If you observe the database, a new Boolean filed is added to catalogAttributes table.

Displaying the column in “Catalog and inventory schema manager” is not possible as partner SDK supports extending Catalog Manager, Marketing Manager, and Customer and Orders Manager only.