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How can I modify an attribute type?
How can I modify an attribute type?

Need to modify a field type in your data model? Here's how!

Sylvain Gourvil avatar
Written by Sylvain Gourvil
Updated over a year ago

There is no specific functionality to change the type of an attribute for a simple reason: it would be necessary to make an automatic correspondence between:

  • the source data (e.g., an ean-13 attribute localized in fr_FR and en_GB) and

  • the target data (e.g., an ean-13 attribute that cannot be translated).

The following is how you'd make this change:

Once the import is finished, everything is fine and your new attribute is created with a recovery/transformation of the existing data.

Obviously, since one attribute has been deleted and another created, you'll need to take into account:

  • Your users' access to the attributes

  • Your incoming and outgoing flows using this data

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