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Glossary term

What is Schema Inheritance?

Definition

Schema inheritance cascades attribute definitions from parent taxonomy nodes to child nodes. This avoids repetitive configuration and speeds up taxonomy setup. It ensures consistency and reduces maintenance for organisations with large catalogs.

Inheritance shares definitions from a parent while allowing governed category-specific requirements. For example, an autonomous product data operation could take a high-bay category beneath industrial lighting, inherit common lighting attributes and add high-bay requirements, and validate products against the combined effective schema.

Schema Inheritance in an autonomous operation

  1. Step 1:

    Input

    A high-bay category beneath industrial lighting

  2. Step 2:

    Schema Inheritance

    Inherit common lighting attributes and add high-bay requirements

  3. Step 3:

    Outcome

    Validate products against the combined effective schema

Inheritance shares definitions from a parent while allowing governed category-specific requirements.

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