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title: "About product triggers"
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# About product triggers

In Zilliant CPQ, a configurable product can be modeled to include product-specific rules to automatically explode a product BOM, assign attribute properties, calculate attribute values, and more. Such product rules are called **triggers** (KBTrigger). Similar types of rules grouped within one object are called a **trigger group** (KBTriggerGroup). In the [knowledge base](/v1/docs/create-a-knowledge-base) Excel spreadsheet, a trigger group is defined in the RULE_X sheet (where X is the sequence number of the trigger).

Use triggers to perform the following tasks:

- Restrict a specific attribute’s range value based on configuration data.
- Execute a BOM explosion.
- Assign values based on specific conditions.
- Set [attribute properties](/v1/docs/about-dynamic-attributes#dynamic-attribute-properties).
- Calculate an attribute value.

There are four trigger group types:

- Range (White List)
- BOM
- Conditional
- BOM and Range

## Access trigger groups

To open the list of trigger groups in Zilliant CPQ:

1. From the application left navigation area, select **Products**.
2. Select a product.
3. From the top navigation bar, select **Knowledge Base**.
4. Select a knowledge base.
5. On the **Triggers** tab, view the list of all trigger groups.

## Create trigger groups

To create a trigger group, follow the instructions based on the trigger group type:

- [Define range triggers](/v1/docs/define-range-triggers)
- [Define BOM triggers](/v1/docs/define-bom-triggers)
- [Define conditional triggers](/v1/docs/define-conditional-triggers)

Process of adding the product bill of material (BOM) as subline items of a configurable product in a quote based on the defined triggers (rules).