In the upper pane, you create the product groups. You can add new product groups by pressing CTRL+N. In the Typefield, you can define the group either as a Group nodeor an Item node.

The Group nodetype is used to generate the overall structure, but the actual items from the inventory list are attached to the Item nodetype. The top node field indicates whether the Group nodeor the Item nodeis a top node - that is, the highest level in a hierarchy. If a filter icon appears in the selection field, a selection criterion for the Item node(only available for items nodes) has been defined in the Select itemsform. Click Select items, Selectin the Item selectionform to open the Select itemsform.

What you see in the lower pane depends on whether a Group nodeor an Item nodeis chosen in the upper pane. You typically select a top node in the upper pane (product groups). When you create a top node, you have to add relations within the top node. Because the top node is usually a group node (unless you only have one level), you can only create component groups in the lower pane.

Component groups are actually product groups that you want to have reside within the selected Group nodein the upper pane. When you add component groups to a Group node, by pressing CTRL+N in the lower pane, you can only select components groups that are available as product groups in the upper pane. This can be either group nodes or item nodes. When the relations to a product group of the Item nodetype are created, the layout of the bottom pane automatically changes to one in which all items that are attached to the current Item nodeare created. You add items to the Item nodeeither by pressing CTRL+N and then selecting the item from the Item groupfield or by adding items by clicking Select itemsas described earlier.

In the product group pane (the upper pane), you can click the Where-usedtab to see which product group the selected product group belongs to in the tree hierarchy. On the Tree structure, you get a graphic illustration of the tree structure from the current node and downward in the hierarchy. By default, the first subordinate level is displayed, but you can open and close additional levels by clicking the + and - symbols to the left of the node.

You can attach Presentationsto product groups and to items by using the two Presentationsbuttons to open the Presentationsform. In the Presentationsform, you can add text and an image to each product group and item.

Note
Always remember to click Updateif you add or change the screen. Otherwise, the internal structures of Microsoft Dynamics AX are not updated.