Configuring child-parent item relationships and availability updates in containers

Use the Update Item Relationship API to efficiently manage child-parent item relationships and ensure accurate availability updates.

Procedure

If you are a container user, complete the following steps:
  1. Call the Update Item Relationship API to update or create child-parent item relationships. For more information, see Update Item Relationship API.
    Every time this API is called, it updates the parent item availability based on all its child items including the new child.
  2. When you introduce many items with child-parent relationships, set the itemRelation.skipParentAvailUpdate tenant-level rule to true before loading any supplies for the child items. Use the Operations Settings API to update the following rule. 
    inventory/operations/v1/configuration/settings/{{tenant}}
    This step makes the Update Item Relationship API lightweight and it updates only the relationship record and skips the parent availability update.
  3. After the initial load of items is complete, set the itemRelation.skipParentAvailUpdate rule back to false. This ensures that the incremental relationship updates also update the parent item availability, keeping the availability data accurate and up to date.
    Note: If supply already exists for child items in the system and the parent relationship is later added with this rule set to true, it is necessary to manually recompute the availability for all items to update the parent item availability before resetting the flag to false. The Node recompute API can be utilized for this purpose.
    Attention:

    Effective with the 10.0.2503.0 release in March 2025, the itemRelation.skipParentAvailUpdate rule is no longer available. The parent item availability in child-parent relationships are calculated and updated asynchronously.