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What are MultiPart Products? (With Examples)

This tutorial explores how to use Multi-Part Products within Infigo, focusing on their versatility for handling both simple and more advanced scenarios. It begins with the straightforward case of uploading a single PDF for quick production, then expands to show how users can configure multiple PDFs or varied artwork within one product setup, even merging them into a single output. Additionally, it demonstrates how versioned products simplify ordering different designs together, and concludes by illustrating cutting-edge possibilities such as 3D previews. Overall, it emphasizes how Multi-Part Products streamline the process of receiving, combining, and previewing customer artwork, offering a highly flexible approach to managing diverse print requirements.

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So multipart products.

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What are they?

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It's a bit of a misleading name for what

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the vast majority of the use
cases for multi-part products are.

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But once you've once we've gone

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through this webinar,
you'll see why they named as they are.

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Most of you, if you've approached
the topic of multi-part products

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before,
we'll know them more as an upload space.

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So a place where your customers
can just upload a single PDF

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and then send it through the Infigo system
and into your production workflow.

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So I'll show you an example

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of like a basic use case
that we've got here.

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So this is just straight out of the box,

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a brand new multi-part product created.

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And you will see,
when she launched the product,

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something like this.

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So it's a very simple space.

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It will give you some information on

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quantities.

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You've selected attribute values
if you've specified them,

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and you've got a space to upload
a particular piece of artwork.

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Preview it,

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add it to basket, and then send it
through the configure system.

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It's nice and simple.

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And as I say, that is what most people
use this system for.

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However, there are much more far reaching

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additional capabilities
of this particular type of product.

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It still falls under that basic
umbrella of.

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It's an upload space for your customers
to upload their particular artwork

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into you.

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However,
it can do much, much more than just allow

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this one simple space
to upload things to our system.

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So before we really get into
how to actually set this up,

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I'm going to go through
a couple more examples for you.

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Just to show you the kind of thing
that we might be able to accomplish

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and what hopefully you'll be able
to have a go at once you've started

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playing around with this system.

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Okay.

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So this one, for example,
is a versioned product and this is

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a multi-part product.

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So what this does is
it gives you the ability to add

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multiple different versions
of the same piece of artwork.

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Now we'll go into this
in more detail later on.

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But what it's essentially doing
is just allowing you

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to have the same specification
of a product

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in terms of the different attributes
that you might use.

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I think most of you will be familiar
with attributes,

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but then you've got the ability
to upload different versions

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of the artwork to the same product.

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Now, this is very useful
if you want to allow people to have

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the same specification
with slightly different artwork,

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useful for the end customer,
because you'll be able to give them things

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like price breaks because it would be
cheaper if they're ordering 500,

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labels just with different artwork
on the same order line,

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compared to

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two lots of 250 labels
as completely separate order lines,

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which might go through your system
at a higher price.

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But we'll get into that

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in more detail later on.

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The next example along

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I have is a sample brochure product.

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And what I want to show
you here is another capability

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of the multipart product,
which is about combining

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multiple PDFs into one output PDF.

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And this is where the multi-part
element of the name comes in.

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So if I start this process,

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you'll see with this particular set up,

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we have a few different upload spaces
that we can utilize.

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So we can upload
separate PDFs into these areas.

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So if I upload a few of those
just to show you how this is done.

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So three completely separate PDFs.

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But then when I go to ahead,
go ahead and preview that.

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It's actually going to show is it.

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I've used the wrong PDF typical
to actually avoid that.

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But it's going to show
is it as one merged PDF.

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So all three of those separate ones
merged into a single product.

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Now it does have a lot more advanced

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possibilities as well. So.

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This is a little bit more advanced.

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It's not something
we're going to be covering

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in a great amount of detail
on this particular webinar.

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I'm just making you
a, aware of its capabilities.

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So relatively recently,
I think we extended the capability

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of the multipart to be able to do
3D previews, like we can do in Mega edit.

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At the moment,
if you have the correct module available.

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And what this allows us to do.

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If I can.

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Upload
a couple of sample pieces of artwork.

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It allows us, as we can do with Mega Edit,

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to actually put this
onto a 3D preview of a product.

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So I'll just keep it
nice and simple with one example here.

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Go to preview.

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The artwork
I've got isn't quite the right size,

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so it won't work perfect,

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but it will show you a representation
of the kind of thing we can do.

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So in this case,
that particular artwork has been put on

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one face of this Rubik's Cube.

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So this 3D model that we have.

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And again, this is all still
as part of the multipart product.

 

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