In the future, information about your products/components may change. Hence, you need to overwrite existing product/component information in the platform. This article explains how the rules are set up and highlights important remarks that you should take into account when updating product/component information.

Whenever data is imported, our system checks via the product code if a record of it already exists. If that is the case, it looks at every column of the import file and uses the values that are in there to overwrite the current values of the products in retraced.

Let’s take a look at a simple example – if you want to update the names of a few products, you will select them in the product table, click on export, adjust only the name column in the excel file and upload it back to retraced.

You can also bulk remove information. To do that you need to have empty cells in the import file for all data points that you would like to remove. Once you import the new file, the old values in retraced will be deleted.

First, access your products/components via the products tab in the left navigation bar. Then, (multi)-select the products/components that need to be updated. Lastly, click the enable export icon.

In the export file, adjust all data points in the columns that you would like to update. Note that all data that is not supposed to be updated must be kept in the file too.