How does Mutually Exclusive work for Kit Bill of Materials?

I noticed this Mutually Exclusive field when defining Kits and in its field help, it mentions This indicates only one item from this component group can be selected.

How do I define the component group? For example, instead of G-40010 Golf Club Bag in the attached example I might want to have options of:

  • G-40010G Golf Club Bag Green
  • G-40010B Golf Club Bag Black
  • G-40010R Golf Club Bag Red

And I want the user to select only 1 of these options and not multiple. Could I do that using this Mutually Exclusive field?

Great question! The component group would be defined as a component of the main kit with its own Kit Bill of Materials.

In your example, you would put G-40010 Golf Club Bag on your G-10001 kit.

Then, you would create another Kit Bill of Materials specifically for G-40010. You would have 3 components in that kit: G-40010G Golf Club Bag Green, G-40010B Golf Club Bag Black and G-40010R Golf Club Bag Red. Make sure the mutually exclusive flag is marked as true on all 3 of the components to ensure that only one option is allowed to be selected at a time.

What this does is creates a nested tree structure on the kit selection. Take G-20001 in the screenshot below as an example.

Since mutually exclusive is true for these components, the system will only allow one component in that component group can be selected at a time.

Let me know if that solved your question!

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