• master
    • Versions
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  • Install Akeneo PIM
    • Install Akeneo PIM for development with Docker
    • Install Akeneo PIM manually
      • System Requirements
      • System installation on Debian 10 (Buster)
      • System installation on Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver)
      • System installation on Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa)
      • Installing Akeneo PIM Community Edition (CE)
      • Installing Akeneo PIM Enterprise Edition (EE) with the Archive
      • Setting up the job queue daemon
      • Setting up the Events API
    • How to customize the Dataset
    • How to Add Translation Packs
  • Upgrade Akeneo PIM projects
    • How to apply a patch?
      • How to apply a patch - Community Edition
      • How to apply a patch - Enterprise Edition - Flexibility Cloud offer
      • How to apply a patch - Enterprise Edition - On Premise offer
    • Where is the Changelog?
    • How to upgrade to a minor version?
    • How to upgrade to a major version?
      • Upgrade from 3.2 to 4.0
      • Upgrade from 4.0 to 5.0
      • Upgrade from 5.0 to 6.0
      • Upgrade from 6.0 to 7.0
  • Import and Export data
    • How import works
    • Understanding the Product Import
    • Understanding the Product Export
    • Formats
      • Localized labels
      • Scopable labels
      • Association types data structure
      • Attribute data structure
      • Category data structure
      • Family data structure
      • Family variant data structure
      • Group data structure
      • Options data structure
      • Product data structure
      • Product model data structure
    • Akeneo Connectors
    • How to Customize Import / Export
      • How to create a new Connector
      • How to import Products from a XML file
      • How to clean a CSV file during a Product import
      • How to automate imports/exports
  • Manipulate the Akeneo PIM data
    • How to Customize Mass Edit Operations
      • How to register a new bulk action
      • How to Register a New Mass Edit Action on Products
    • How to Manipulate Products
      • How to Query Products
      • How to Create Products
      • How to Update Products
      • How to Validate Products
      • How to Save Products
      • How to Remove Products
    • How to Manipulate Non-Product Objects
      • How to Query Non-Product Objects
      • How to Create Non-Product Objects
      • How to Update Non-Product Objects
      • How to Validate Non-Product Objects
      • How to Save Non-Product Objects
      • How to Remove Non-Product Objects
    • How to add a custom action rule
      • General information about rule format
      • How to add a custom action in the rule engine
    • How to Define Access Control List
    • How to Customize the Catalog Structure
      • How to Create a Reference Data
    • How To Customize Teamwork Assistant (Enterprise Edition)
      • Customize notifications
      • Add a calculation step
      • How to log calculation step
      • Remove projects impacted by a custom catalog update
    • How to store assets externally
    • How to Configure Measurement Limits
    • How to Configure the Event Subscription network restrictions
  • Maintain Akeneo PIM projects
    • First aid kit
    • Bug qualification
    • Common issues
    • Scalability Guide
      • Audit with 3 Representative Catalogs
      • More than 10k attributes?
      • More than 10k families?
      • More than 10k categories?
      • More than 500 attributes usable in the product grids?
      • More than 100k products to export?
      • More than 1GB of product media to export?
    • How to purge history
      • How to purge jobs executions
      • How to adapt the version purger to your needs
      • How to purge events API logs
  • Contribute to Akeneo PIM
    • How to report an issue?
    • How to translate the user interface?
    • How to enhance the documentation?
    • How to contribute to a Connector?
    • How to submit a patch to the PIM?
    • How to contribute to the frontend part of the application
    • How behavior tests are architectured in the PIM?
      • Establishing Decorator Pattern
      • Using Spin In Behat
  • Use SSO authentication locally
  • Reference Entities
    • Configure Entity Limits
    • Create a new Reference Entity Attribute type
    • Enrich Records with a new Reference Entity Attribute type
    • Add a Custom Property to Your Custom Attribute Type
    • Refresh records completeness
  • Troubleshooting guide
  • Technical overview
    • Product Information
    • Teamwork Assistant (Enterprise Edition)
      • Project creation
      • Project completeness
      • Project Completeness widget
      • Catalog update impact
      • Scalability guide
      • Users permission summary for Behat tests
    • Collaborative workflow
      • Simple workflow
      • Partial workflow
  • Technical architecture
    • Best Practices
      • Create a project
      • Create a reusable bundle
      • Code Conventions
      • Coding Standards
    • How to implement your business logic using the event system
    • Events
      • Storage events
      • Workflow events (Enterprise Edition only)
    • How to Localize your data
      • How to change the PIM locale
      • How to Use Localizers
      • How to use Presenters
    • How to Add a Notification
    • Performances Guide
      • Memory usage of rules execution (Enterprise Edition)
      • Memory leak fix in Rules Engine (ORM)
      • More than 100 WYSIWYG editors in a page
      • PHP7 and HHVM Compatibility?
      • Job product batch size
    • How to Use the Web REST API
    • Standard format
      • Products
      • Other entities
      • Usage
    • Application Technical Information
      • Application Technical Dependencies
      • Server side set up for hosting
      • System Requirements
      • Recommended configuration
      • Client side configuration and compatibilities
      • Operation processes
      • Flow Matrix
  • Akeneo Cloud Edition
    • Flexibility
      • Environment accesses
      • System Administration & Services Management
      • Periodic tasks & Crontab configuration
      • Composer settings
      • Queue Management & Consumers
      • Disk Usage Management
    • Serenity
  • Akeneo Onboarder
    • Prerequisites
    • How to install the Onboarder bundle
    • Synchronization
    • How to update a minor version or to apply a patch
      • How to update the Onboarder bundle - Enterprise Edition - Flexibility Cloud offer
      • How to update the Onboarder bundle - Enterprise Edition - On Premise offer
    • How to upgrade to a major version
    • Troubleshooting
    • How to uninstall the Onboarder bundle
    • Environment variables
      • Using the DotEnv file
      • Using environment variables
  • About Log4Shell Vulnerability for SaaS Users
  • About Log4Shell Vulnerability for Flexibility v5 Users
  • About Log4Shell Vulnerability for Flexibility users below v5.0

How to Create a Reference DataΒΆ

Note

If you want to use Reference data to model your catalog you likely need our new feature: Reference entities!

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