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Automatic data binding automatically creates an Answer Option for every distinct value of the connected product attribute (1:1 mapping).
Things to know:
When choosing this type, all previously configured Answer Options of this Question will be deleted.
The automatically created Answer Options are not visible in the Concept Board, their labels cannot be changed and there is no explanation content.
Product attributes with many different (simple) values that you don't want to maintain manually.
e.g. brands (see example configuration below)
Product attributes where the values might change very frequently and you want to make sure every value is displayed without adapting the corresponding list of Answer Options in the Product Guide.
Make sure you provided your users a selection of brands in the Product Guide. Your Question "Which brand do you prefer?" would look like this in the Concept Board:
Furthermore your uploaded product data file contains the product attribute "manufacturer" which is filled with a set of different brands:
There are many different manufacturers, and your shop or website will add new products continuously and remove products that are not on sale anymore. As a consequence, your manufacturer list may look different every day or even hour. It does not make sense to keep track of these changes manually; instead use the automatic mapping.
After building the Example Question and uploading the Product Data File the Question data binding type have to be adapted and the product attribute set.
Choose "Automatic" in the "Answer Option Data Binding" combobox.
All existing Answer Options are deleted at this moment. |
Consequence:
The live Product Guide shows the Question "Which brand do you prefer?" with a list of all product attribute values. Here: Anderson, Carlson, Janson, Simson, Thomson.