Managing Product Lines
Product lines allow you to group, classify, and describe products.
Depending on your system configuration settings, product lines can also be used to define access rights to product information for internal users in large accounts with diverse product offerings. For example, a product manager for a CRM product might be authorized to view products and entitlements for only CRM products, instead of viewing products across an account’s entire product set. Likewise, product lines can be used on End-User Portal sites to ensure that customer users see only the items related to the product lines to which their accounts are linked.
For many producers, product lines are completely optional. However, there are two scenarios where product lines are required:
| • | For producers who use FlexNet Electronic Software Delivery, product lines are a high-level organizer for download files. In the End-User Portal, download files are grouped by producer, then product line, and then download package. |
| • | For producers who use FlexNet Usage Management, product lines play a functional role in searching for and rendering usage history reports. |
See Also
Mapping a Product to a Product Line