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Introduction
This section provides an overview of basic concepts and architectural features used in Intershop Commerce Management.
Catalogs and Products
This section introduces catalog and product concepts and outlines administrative tasks related to repository management, catalog management, and import & export.
Content Management
This section covers tasks related to creating, managing and sharing master pages, components and other assets that are subject to content management.
Online Marketing
This section introduces online marketing concepts and outlines administrative tasks related to managing promotions and discounts, coupons and gift certificates, affiliate partners and partner programs, and short links.
Orders and Fulfillment
This section introduces the order process and outlines administrative tasks related to managing orders, including order status handling and order export, as well as managing shipping methods and payment methods.
Customer Management
This section outlines concepts and administrative tasks related to managing customer profiles and customer segments. It also covers customer import and export tasks.
Operation and Maintenance
This section gives an overview of typical activities in the context of managing the organization, channels, applications, partners, services and mass-data business operations.

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Catalogs and Products
This section introduces catalog and product concepts and outlines administrative tasks related to repository management, catalog management, and import & export.
Catalog and Product Management: Concepts
Product Attribute Groups

Introduction
This section provides an overview of basic concepts and architectural features used in Intershop Commerce Management.
Catalogs and Products
This section introduces catalog and product concepts and outlines administrative tasks related to repository management, catalog management, and import & export.
Content Management
This section covers tasks related to creating, managing and sharing master pages, components and other assets that are subject to content management.
Online Marketing
This section introduces online marketing concepts and outlines administrative tasks related to managing promotions and discounts, coupons and gift certificates, affiliate partners and partner programs, and short links.
Orders and Fulfillment
This section introduces the order process and outlines administrative tasks related to managing orders, including order status handling and order export, as well as managing shipping methods and payment methods.
Customer Management
This section outlines concepts and administrative tasks related to managing customer profiles and customer segments. It also covers customer import and export tasks.
Operation and Maintenance
This section gives an overview of typical activities in the context of managing the organization, channels, applications, partners, services and mass-data business operations.

Product Attribute Groups

Standard and custom attributes of a product can be assigned to product attribute groups. Product attribute groups provide a powerful mechanism to impose a meta-structure on large and complex sets of attributes. Product attribute groups can be used for various purposes, including:

Managing attribute mapping rules in synchronization processes

Attribute mapping rules for synchronization processes can be based on attribute groups. If an attribute group is selected, all attributes that are part of this group are copied 1:1.
Providing localizable attribute names

When defining the attributes that should belong to an attribute group, you provide an attribute name and an ID. The attribute name is used for display purposes. The ID is matched by the system against standard and product attributes in order to retrieve the respective attribute value. If the attribute values are localized as well, the value for the respective locale is retrieved. For example, if the current locale of a user is German (de_DE), the system retrieves the attribute name for German as defined in the attribute group, and the attribute value for German as defined on the product to be displayed.

For details on working with product attribute groups, see Managing Product Attribute Groups.