Inlink
The Inlink Affinity can be defined between the products at the same level in a bundle.
As shown in the figure, the InLink affinity can be defined between the Product B, and Product C for PROVIDE action by specifying the affinity type as InLink. The PROVIDE plan fragment is defined as PC_PROVIDE_BC.
For the InLink affinity, the LinkID user-defined field having the same value must be passed in the order lines.
In addition to the two conditions, Automated Order Plan Development also checks the following conditions for the InLink affinity:
- If a value of the LinkID user-defined field in the plan items, which is propagated from the order lines to be merged, is exactly the same.
- If the dependentOn (parent product) plan item for the plan items to be merged is exactly the same.
If these conditions are fulfilled, the plan items are combined into a single affinity plan item containing the plan fragment from any of the merging plan items, since it is the same for all of them.