Abstract: Disclosed herein is a pigmented aqueous coating composition including at least one binder, at least one mono-, di- and/or triglyceride, and at least one silica compound. Further disclosed herein is a method for producing a multicoat paint system by producing a basecoat or two or more directly consecutive basecoats directly on a substrate optionally coated with a first coat, producing a clearcoat directly on the basecoat or on the topmost of the two or more basecoats, and then jointly curing the one or more basecoats and the clearcoat. At least one of the basecoat materials includes the aqueous coating composition disclosed herein. Additionally disclosed herein is a multicoat paint system obtainable by the disclosed method.

Abstract: An automated method for authoring product catalogs includes setting up a catalog database for storing and providing data for use in the authoring of the product catalogs and authoring a product content. This includes updating a product structure, including storing new data, selecting views for a product wherein the views comprise a respective hierarchical structure of objects of various types, associating the new data with respective selected views, entering product data for the objects of various types, and updating and organizing the objects, in each case, based on the respective hierarchical structure such that the product content for all required views is stored in the catalog database.