Create a product association

❗ Important Product associations is currently in Preview status. It is in development, only available in test environments, and only available to a limited number of customers. For more information about Preview status, see Product lifecycle phases. If you would like to use Product associations during the Preview phase, contact your AppDirect technical representative.

You can create product associations between editions of products that have been published on the marketplace. Using the GraphQL API has the advantage of returning the id values for products and editions as you create them, so you can note them down for use when you create the product associations.

It is up to you to decide how you want to structure your product associations.

Complete the following prerequisites:

1. Create a product :
   1. In the UI, see Add products.
   2. In GraphQL, see Create the product shell.
2. Configure your product and create an edition:
   1. In the UI, see Add editions.
   2. In GraphQL, see Create editions.
3. Add branding information to your product:
   1. In the UI, see Edit product profiles and branding.
   2. It is not possible to add branding in GraphQL.
4. Request publication of your product:
   1. In the UI, see Publish products.
   2. It is not possible to request publication of your product in GraphQL.
5. The Marketplace Manager approves the publication of your product.

To create a product association,

1. Get your Ref IDs by querying products in the GraphQL API. If you do not have these values already, you can retrieve them by using the products query:
   • products—Lists the attributes of all products and their editions.
2. Create your Product association in the GQL API. See:
   • createProductEditionAssociations—Creates product associations between a specific edition of a product, and editions of other products.

For more information, see Product associations and other related topics.