# Tabular data - How to solve tabular data in relation to Product/Article

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**Created:** [May 22, 2025, 7:51am UTC](https://forum.litium.com/t/tabular-data-how-to-solve-tabular-data-in-relation-to-product-article/3497 "2025-05-22T07:51:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![amidoszitac](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.litium.com/amidoszitac/32/932_2.png) [@amidoszitac](https://forum.litium.com/u/amidoszitac)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2025, 7:51am UTC](https://forum.litium.com/t/tabular-data-how-to-solve-tabular-data-in-relation-to-product-article/3497/1 "2025-05-22T07:51:12Z")

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We are thinking of what the best practice could be regarding tabular data.

Lets say we have chemical data, that could be an Id, Name, Description and an Image/Icon.

We want to relate this on a set of products and/or articles. But i want to refrain from using Multi-field as this means that the customer has to change the image on all 700 articles using that chemical code. I rather the customer change it in one place and it changes on all 700 articles.

So basically what Im thinking is a classical Field with a value, that points to some form of row in a table. But i want to make sure Im not missing out-of-the-box abilities to solve the issue.

One thought ive had is creating a custom back-office implementation of tabular data, but then the remaining part is having an easy way of pointing to a table and row on articles, so this also feels like it wont be a good user-experience.

tl;dr: Any input of ways of solving classical tabular data with x amount of columns to be pointed to a product and/or article is welcome.

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**Author:** ![Martin.Brandt](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.litium.com/martin.brandt/32/974_2.png) [@Martin.Brandt](https://forum.litium.com/u/Martin.Brandt)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2025, 10:13pm UTC](https://forum.litium.com/t/tabular-data-how-to-solve-tabular-data-in-relation-to-product-article/3497/2 "2025-05-31T22:13:39Z")

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I did something like this for a customer, some years ago. It was for warning symbols of different kinds, where each symbol had an icon, title and description/text.

I made an angular panel under the PIM where users can create/update/delete each warning symbol, utilizing the media archive and the image dialog etc and using SettingService to store the List in database.

I then made a custom field that allowed user to select a warning symbol from the list of stored symbols, that field plus a text field was added to a multifield array, so they could select from the list of symbols, plus add a custom text for each product, for the symbol if they wanted.

regards,  
Martin

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/litium/original/1X/12eddac3b8b661de1db86af10ac8151b571e6fb9.png) [@system](https://forum.litium.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2025, 10:13pm UTC](https://forum.litium.com/t/tabular-data-how-to-solve-tabular-data-in-relation-to-product-article/3497/3 "2025-06-28T22:13:55Z")

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