Understanding and Managing Destinations

A Destination is any place in Plytix where products are assigned to be used or shared. This includes Channels, Brand Portals, and Product Data Sheets.

Products are assigned directly to each Destination so you always have a clear, product-level answer to 'where is this product being sent, and why.'

What is a Destination?

Viewing the Products in a Destination

Checking a Product's Destination

Assigning Products to a Destination

Filtering Products by Destination

Setting Inheritance for Destinations

Setting Permissions for Editing Destinations

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What is a Destination?

Channels, Brand Portals, and Product Data Sheets are all Destinations, any place your product data is sent to or shared from. Each Destination has its own list of assigned products, and a product stays assigned to a Destination until it is specifically removed. Nothing is included or excluded silently.

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Viewing the Products in a Destination

1. Open the Destination you want to review, a Channel, Brand Portal, or Product Data Sheet.
2. Go to the 'Products' tab.
3. Here you'll see every product currently assigned to that Destination, along with system attributes such as SKU, Thumbnail, Categories, Last modified, and Created.
   

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Checking a Product's Destinations

Because assignment is stored on the product, you can also check things from the product's side, no need to open each Destination individually.

1. Open the Product Detail page.
2. Go to the 'Destinations' tab.
3. At the top, you'll see the total number of Destinations this product is assigned to, next to a globe icon.
4. Below that, the product's Destinations are broken down by type:
   • Channels: shows each channel's status (e.g. Draft, Live).
   • Brand Portals: shows each portal's status (e.g. Live).
   • Product Data Sheets: shows each sheet's status, plus a Last sync timestamp for when the sheet was last generated for this product.
5. Click 'Edit destinations' in the top right to make changes.
   

This is the fastest way to answer 'why is this product in (or missing from) my Channel, Brand Portal, or Product Data Sheet?'

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Assigning Products to a Destination

There are four ways to add or remove products from a Destination:

From inside the Destination

1. Open the Destination and go to the 'Products' tab.
2. Click 'Add products'.
   
3. In the 'Add products' window, use the 'All products' and 'Selected' tabs to browse everything available or review what you've already checked off.
4. Use 'Search by SKU or label' to find specific products, or tick 'Select all' to select everything shown.
5. Tick the checkbox next to each product you want to add. The product count at the bottom left (e.g. '60 products') reflects the total available to choose from.
6. Click 'Save' to confirm, or 'Cancel' to back out.
   

To deselect a product you're about to add, but haven't saved yet, go to the 'Selected' tab within the 'Add products' window and click the 'X' beside it. This only removes it from your current selection, it has no effect on products already assigned to the Destination.

To remove a product that's already assigned to the Destination, go to the 'Products' tab, tick the checkbox next to the product(s) you want to remove, then click 'Remove from destination' in the toolbar that appears at the bottom of the screen.

From Product Overview

1. Go to 'Products'.
2. Edit a single product's Destination assignment in-cell, or select multiple products to open the bulk action bar at the bottom of the screen.
3. From the bulk action bar's edit icon, choose 'Edit destinations' (alongside other bulk options like Edit attributes, Edit media, Find and replace, Edit categories, and Edit relationships).
   
4. In the 'Edit destinations' window, use the 'Add destinations' dropdown to choose how this action should behave:
   • Add destinations: adds the selected Destinations to the products, keeping any existing assignments intact.
   • Replace destinations: replaces the products' current Destinations with your new selection.
   • Remove destinations: removes the selected Destinations from the products.
5. Under 'All destinations', expand Channels, Brand Portals, or Product Data Sheets to tick the specific ones you want, each shows a count of how many exist. Use 'Search by attribute' if you're looking for a specific one, or 'Collapse all' to tidy the view.
6. Click 'Save'.

From the Product Detail page

1. Open a product.
2. Go to the 'Destinations' tab.
3. Click 'Edit Destinations'.
   
4. In the 'Edit destinations' window, use the 'Add destinations' dropdown to choose how this action should behave:
   • Add destinations: adds the selected Destinations to the product, keeping any existing assignments intact.
   • Replace destinations: replaces the product's current Destinations with your new selection.
   • Remove destinations: removes the selected Destinations from the product.
5. Under 'All destinations,' expand Channels, Brand Portals, or Product Data Sheets to tick the specific ones you want.
6. Click 'Save.'
   
   

With Automations

1. Go to 'Automations' and create or edit a rule.
2. Set the Trigger conditions you want, for example 'Product matches condition' or 'Product created.'
3. Under 'Action', click 'Add action' and choose 'Edit destinations' (alongside other actions like AI Edit, Edit attributes, Find and replace, Edit relationships, Edit categories, and Assign family).
4. In the 'Edit destinations' window, use the 'Add destinations' dropdown to choose how this action should behave:
   • Add destinations: adds the selected Destinations to matching products, keeping any existing assignments intact.
   • Replace destinations: replaces matching products' current Destinations with your new selection.
   • Remove destinations: removes the selected Destinations from matching products.
5. Under 'All destinations,' expand Channels, Brand Portals, or Product Data Sheets to tick the specific ones you want the rule to apply.
6. Save the Automation. Matching products will be kept up to date automatically going forward.
   
   
   

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Filtering Products by Destination

You can also use Destinations as a filter in Product Overview, useful for answering questions like 'which products are missing from this Brand Portal?' or 'which products are assigned to this Channel?'

1. Go to 'Products' and open the filter panel.
2. Click 'New filter'.
3. Under 'Start from,' choose 'Destinations' (alongside other filter starting points like Attributes, Media, Family or product type, Categories, Relationships, and Created or modified).
   
4. Pick the specific Destination type you want to filter by: Brand Portals, Channels, or Product Data Sheets.
5. Choose an operator for the filter:
   • Has value: the product is assigned to at least one Destination of this type.
   • Is empty: the product isn't assigned to any Destination of this type.
   • Contains any of: the product is assigned to one or more specific Destinations you select.
   • Does not contain any of: the product is not assigned to any of the specific Destinations you select.

The product count at the bottom of the panel updates live as you refine your filter, so you can confirm your results before applying them elsewhere (e.g. in a bulk edit or export).

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Setting Inheritance for Destinations

By default, a product's variants are assigned to Destinations independently from their parent, assigning a parent doesn't automatically bring its variants along. Inheritance lets you change that for a given Destination, so a parent and all its variants stay in sync automatically.

You can find and configure this per Destination type at the Product Family level:

1. Go to Settings → Products → Families.
2. Open the family you want to configure.
   
3. On the 'Attributes' tab, alongside the system attribute toggles (SYS Label, SYS Categories, SYS Thumbnail, SYS Status), you'll see a toggle for each Destination type: Channels, Brand Portals, and Product Data Sheets. Each shows whether inheritance is ON or OFF, and if it's on, which variant Level it applies to.
4. Click 'Edit inheritance' to open the 'Edit inheritance status' window.
5. Use the dropdown at the top to select the Destination type you want to configure, for example Channels.
   
6. Under 'Inheritance status,' choose one of three settings:
   • OFF: variants are assigned to Destinations independently, assigning the parent has no effect on its variants.
   • ON (Level 1): variants at the first level below the parent automatically inherit the parent's Destination assignments.
   • ON (Level 2): inheritance extends one level further, to the second level of variants below the parent.
7. Click 'Save.'

Learn how to set inheritance for your destinations in this article. 

 

 

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Setting Permissions for Editing Destinations

Product-level permissions let you control exactly who can change Destination assignments, separately from who can simply view them.

1. Go to Settings → Team → Roles and open the role you want to configure.
   
2. Scroll to the 'Destinations' section.
3. For each Destination type, Channels, Brand portals, and Product data sheets, set the permission to Edit, View, or None.
   

Users with View-only access can still see a product's assigned Destinations on the Product Detail page and Product Overview, but any action that changes assignment, manual edit, bulk edit, or Automations, requires Edit permission. Learn how to set up permissions for team roles here.