Handling lengthy list of products - looking for ideas

Hi all! So, I'm looking for how other organizations handle very lengthy and constantly changing lists of products. We have ours currently in a single custom field - but, since our product list is 150+ values, trying to keep content accurately tagged, having content nominated for moderation, etc. is a challenge. We are considering breaking our long, individual product list into smaller groups.

Content is not always limited to individual products, but can be applicable to groups of products (like asset classes in our case) or every ("All") products.

Has anyone wrangled with this in your experience? We have new products added each quarter and products that retire - ad hoc, of course.

What can you share?

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Tara Kolinsky

@jennifer.davies@vizientinc.com I know you all handle a lot of solutions with your content organization structure. Would you mind sharing with Ellen some insight as to how you manage it?

Kristen Lupo

@Carriann.Horstead@matrixcare.com thought of your account with this question! Would you mind sharing any insight with Ellen on how you are leveraging your different product lines and business lines?

Lesley Miller

Hi Ellen,

We also have a very long and ever changing list of products. We found that by breaking our products into categories which in RFPIO are called Collections (we renamed these to "Business Units") and using the product name as the tag it was much easier to find the info.

We can also sort and filter by just the collection/business unit and tag which reduces the number of items that show up in the search.

hope this was helpful, let me know if you want more clarification.

Ellen Jones

Anyone have product lists spread out across mutiple custom fields?

Lesley Miller

We used product groupings for custom fields and then the product names are the tags.

Not sure the industry you are in, but example would be:

Collection: Shoes/Custom Field: Basketball Shoes/Tag: Nike Air Jordan

Hope that makes sense!

Sheena Sanna

@Lesley Miller can you expand on "Custom Field?" I see how I can add it in the organization settings, but don't understand how you use it for "Product groupings." Thanks!

Lesley Miller

@Sheena Sanna we set up "Custom Fields" to represent each Business Unit we have. The Display Name & Group name are the same, and then we added "Values" to represent each product in those business units. My apologies if I didn't explain it clearly last time, this was very confusing for us when we were setting up our library.

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