What is a channel?
A channel allows us to select products and some of their information to be exported with a connector.
For example, a channel for our website and another one for the catalog.
A channel works as a filter with the following properties :
A classification tree — it defines products to export
One or several locales — it defines which values the channel requests : product information in French but not in Italian, even if it exists.
One or several currencies — it defines which values the channel requests for prices : prices in Euro and Dollar.
Metric conversion — it defines for each attribute typed ‘Metric’ if the values must be converted or not.
Completeness — it defines which information are required or optional to select a product, depending on products family.
Disabled products are ignored by channels.
At least one channel is required.