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Edit a product

How you edit a product depends on its current publication status. Traceable handles draft and published products differently to ensure that publicly accessible DPPs are never silently changed without a deliberate republication step.

A published product opened from My Products, showing the read-only notice stating the DPP is an immutable regulatory record, the Approved status and version, and the internal passport history below.

A published passport is read-only. Opening it shows the record and its history, not an editor.

Editing a Draft Product​

Products in Draft status are fully editable without restriction. All fields across all DPP sections can be modified freely.

To edit a draft product:

  1. Go to Products in the sidebar.
  2. Click the product name to open the product record.
  3. If the product is in Draft status, you are taken directly to the DPP editor. No additional steps are required.
  4. Make your changes. Your work is saved when you use an explicit action — Next, Previous, or Save & Exit (moving between steps saves the step you are leaving). There is no background auto-save, so save before leaving a step.

There is no version history for draft products. The current draft represents the single working copy. If you need to preserve an intermediate draft state, consider exporting the product data before making significant changes.

Editing a published product​

A published passport is not editable in place. Opening one shows a read-only view carrying this notice, verbatim:

Read-only view — this DPP is immutable. This product has been published or deprecated, which means its Digital Product Passport is a regulatory record that cannot be modified […]. You can review every field you submitted below, but no changes are possible on this page. To make changes, open an Edit Window for this product from My Products — you get 14 days to edit, and the public DPP keeps serving the current version until you Re-publish.

The elision is deliberate. The notice as displayed cites a specific article, and that citation names the wrong instrument for a battery passport, so it is not reproduced here. What makes a published battery passport a fixed record is the Batteries Regulation's own passport regime and its accessibility obligations, not the article the notice names. Treat the operational behaviour above as accurate and the citation as pending correction in the product.

So the sequence is:

  1. Go to Products and find the published product.
  2. Open its actions menu (the ⋯ button at the end of the row).
  3. Choose Re-open for Edits. This opens the product's Edit Window.
  4. Make your changes within the window, which lasts 14 days.
  5. Re-publish to make them public.

Throughout that window the public DPP continues to serve the current published version, so the QR code on a physical battery never resolves to a half-finished edit.

The same actions menu also carries Version History, Duplicate, Manage Traceability, Manage Documents, Publish DPP Snapshot, Sign & Publish Version, Deprecate Product and Withdraw / Recall.

Demo and showcase products

Some products are locked as demonstration records. Their actions menu opens with Demo product — read only and offers no edit path at all, which is deliberate: it keeps the public example passports stable.

Re-publishing​

Re-publishing runs the same publish gate as the first publication: the pre-publish check confirms mandatory fields are complete and re-checks associated documents and certificates, so a certificate that has expired since the last publication is caught here.

Verification in Traceable is task-based: a verifier reviews the documentation and DPP data for a product and records a decision. If a change materially alters claims that were previously verified, use your judgement (and your compliance team's) on whether to assign a fresh verification task before re-publishing. For products already on the EU market, publishing a material change without up-to-date verification may create a compliance gap.

Where the previous version goes​

Each publication is recorded as a version, visible under Version History in the product's actions menu. The public DPP URL always serves the current published version; earlier versions remain part of the passport's internal history and the audit trail rather than being publicly addressable.

See Publish a DPP for the gate itself, and The DPP editor, step by step for what each editor step contains.

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