Product configurations determine the versions of all the products that they contain.
About this task
Create a configuration to collect the products that the team is focused on. A configuration can support a product as large as a car or as small as a mechanical heart valve. In this example, the product tree starts at the top-level configuration, Automated Meter Reader.

After the product manager or team lead creates a configuration, they add child products (such as AMR Server and Handheld Reader), under Automated Meter Reader to further organize the configuration.
Further, products can contain configurations, which also contain products. To read about different usage scenarios, see Product configurations workflow.
- In the main menu, click .
Configurations can use dimension and value pairs to express variations in your products that are based on those dimensions and values. A dimension describes how a product configuration or product branch is unique by defining its aspects. A dimension consists of a name, such as geo, and a value, such as uk. For example, if your product is a speedometer that is created in the United States, you could create a variant of the speedometer product for the United Kingdom.
When you set dimension and value pairs for a configuration, the pairs determine the versions of all the products in that configuration. Each dimension and value pair must be unique, but you can add as many pairs as you need to configurations and to products.
If you want to use dimension and value pairs for a configuration, you can create them now or later. Read about the behavior of dimensions in the Create Product Configuration dialog box, in the Dimensions hover help.
- In the Create Product Configuration dialog box, enter the name of the product that you are creating. Hover over Product Configuration Name to read details about configuration names.
- Optional: Create a top-level configuration without a parent by clicking the X.
To create a configuration with a different parent, you can create the configuration without a parent and then add the new configuration to a parent. Alternatively, you can cancel this dialog box, right-click over the parent, and then select Create Product Configuration or Create Product
- Optional: Add an existing configuration or product by right-clicking the focus configuration or product and selecting Add Product or Configuration.
Enter a keyword to search for a product or configuration, then select appropriately from the results, and click Add. The selected configuration or product is added as a child.