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Unknown
Hello, everyone. Welcome to today's webinar. As usual. Before we get started, and while we wait another minute or so for anyone else to arrive. Can someone please confirm in the chat which you should see on that screen? Whether or not you can see me, hear me and see my screen. Brilliant. Thank you very much.
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Unknown
Okay, cool.
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Unknown
Okay. So let's get started. So I'm Sam. As most of you know, I think most of you were regulars to these webinars at this point. So, the academy manager here in Vigo. And I'll soon be joined by Duncan as well, who's part of our support team. How it's going to work is the same as normal.
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Unknown
So I'll just be sitting here talking away, trying to throw as much information at you as possible. But if you've got any questions as we're going through the webinar, please use the chat panel to pull any queries that you have. And, Duncan, when he arrives, we'll take a look at those for you.
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Unknown
And yes, this webinar is being recorded. It should be emailed out, I think, by the live storm system upon, upon completion. But it will be put up on the academy platform as well, so you can review it at your leisure. In that same vein. There is, some resources I want to provide you with as well, which will stay available after the webinar has completed.
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Unknown
So you'll still be able to use the same link, and I will put it in the chat. Now. Okay. So this particular webinar is talking about multi-part products. So multipart products. What are they. It's a bit of a misleading name for what the vast majority of the use cases for multi-part products are. But once you've once we've gone through this webinar, you'll see why the named as they are most of you, if you've approached the topic of multi-part products before, we'll know them more as an upload space.
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Unknown
So a place where your customers can just upload a single PDF and then send it through the configure system and into your production workflow. So I'll show you an example of like a basic use case that we've got here. So this is just straight out of the box, a brand new multi-part product created. And you will see, when she launched the product, something like this.
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Unknown
So it's a very simple space. It will give you some information on quantities. You've selected attribute values if you've specified them, and you've got a space to upload a particular piece of artwork.
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Unknown
Preview it, add it to basket, and then send it through the configure system. It's nice and simple. And as I say, that is what most people use this system for. However, there are much, much far reaching additional capabilities of this particular type of product. It still falls under that basic umbrella of. It's an upload space for your customers to upload their particular artwork into you.
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Unknown
However, it can do much, much more than just allow this one simple space to upload things to our system. So before we really get into how to actually set this up, I'm going to go through a couple more examples for you just to show you the kind of thing that we might be able to accomplish and what hopefully you'll be able to have a go at once you've started playing around with this system.
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Unknown
Okay. So this one, for example, is a versioned product and this is a multi-part product. So what this does is it gives you the ability to add multiple different versions of the same piece of artwork. Now we'll go into this in more detail later on. But what it's essentially doing is just allowing you to have the same specification of a product in terms of the different attributes that you might use.
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Unknown
I think most of you will be familiar with attributes, but then you've got the ability to upload different versions of the artwork to the same product. Now, this is very useful if you want to allow people to have the same specification with slightly different artwork, useful for the end customer, because you'll be able to give them things like price breaks because it would be cheaper if they're ordering 500, labels just with different artwork on the same order line, compared to two lots of 250 labels as completely separate order lines, which might go through your system at a higher price.
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Unknown
But we'll get into that in more detail later on. The next example along I have is a sample brochure product. And what I want to show you here is another capability of the multipart product, which is about combining multiple PDFs into one output PDF. And this is where the multi-part element of the name comes in. So if I start this process, you'll see with this particular set up, we have a few different upload spaces that we can utilize.
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Unknown
So we can upload separate PDFs into these areas.
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Unknown
So if I upload a few of those just to show you how this is done.
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Unknown
So three completely separate PDFs. But then when I go to ahead, go ahead and preview that.
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Unknown
It's actually going to show is it. I've used the wrong PDF typical to actually avoid that. But it's going to show is it as one merged PDF. So all three of those separate ones merged into a single product.
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Unknown
Now it does have a lot more advanced possibilities as well. So. This is a little bit more advanced. It's not something we're going to be covering in a great amount of detail on this particular webinar. I'm just making you a, aware of its capabilities. So relatively recently, I think we extended the capability of the multipart to be able to do 3D previews, like we can do in Mega edit.
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Unknown
At the moment, if you have the correct module available. And what this allows us to do.
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Unknown
If I can. Upload a couple of sample pieces of artwork. It allows us, as we can do with Mega Edit, to actually put this onto a 3D preview of a product. So I'll just keep it nice and simple with one example here. Go to preview. The artwork I've got isn't quite the right size, so it won't work perfect, but it will show you a representation of the kind of thing we can do.
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Unknown
So in this case, that particular artwork has been put on one face of this Rubik's Cube. So this 3D model that we have.
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Unknown
And again, this is all still as part of the multipart product.
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Unknown
Okay. So let's have a little look. This is where I've got this build as a product build workshop. So we'll start from scratch. And then slowly build up the complexity of our products as we go through this particular, system. So what I'm going to do is just go to my product management and create a brand new multi-part product.
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Unknown
So select Product Type is multi-part and click create.
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Unknown
Now, immediately. That will give us a fairly robust, upload system there. So I could go straight to the front end of that brand new product I've created. It's already going to give me an area where our users can upload artwork, and then put it in their basket and take it through the end of their system. So straight out of the box, we've got that capability.
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Unknown
However, of course we want to put a lot more detail on that. One thing I will mention before I proceed, if any of you have tried to do this before, maybe some of the older customers with with, long existing storefronts, you might find that your upload area, when you have a new multi-part product might look slightly different.
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Unknown
Now, this is because relatively recently, maybe a year or so ago, the UI for the multipart product, the default UI was updated slightly, just to make it a bit more user friendly. So you might see a slightly different version. What we did when that change was implemented, we made it so that any existing storefront still used the old UI by default, and any new storefront would automatically use the updated UI because we didn't want to change the existing behavior.
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Unknown
If it was an existing product. You can, however, change this if you want to use the updated UI. So just to show you where this is, if you navigate to Go settings.
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Unknown
Search in here for multi-part. And then quite close to the bottom you'll see used new multipart editor UI. Now, as I say, for any new storefronts that will be turned on automatically, this is just a very useful setting for all the storefronts that might not be seeing the updated UI.
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Unknown
Okay, so there are a lot of essential bits to the multipart product. Many of which are cross product type. So what I mean by this is there's a lot of elements you might consider essential on a multipart, which are common to all different in figure product types. So this is things like the ability to completely customize your product landing page.
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Unknown
I've just seen that message come in. I don't know whether that's is anyone else seeing the system where it's me is a very big picture in the screen is a small one, or is it the other way around? It might be on your own system. That one.
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Unknown
Okay, let's see if I can fix that.
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Unknown
On my screen, it's the other way around.
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Unknown
Okay. Looks like it's a bit of a bit of a mixed bag, so I think it might be, hopefully something that you can control on your end for that one. Oh, somebody is changing it for me now. Is that you, Duncan?
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Unknown
Okay, I'm just going to carry on. I think the, I think that's changeable on your end. Hopefully.
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Unknown
Okay.
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Unknown
Yes. So stuff, which is cross products, capabilities, things like adding attributes, images to your product, landing page, descriptions to your product landing page. I'll go I'll add a few things of those quickly now, but I think the majority of people on this webinar will be familiar with those. So it's not something I'll dwell too much on for anyone that's quite new to configure when any of these concepts are quite new.
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Unknown
We do have loads of information on the Academy on how you would create and implement these things. So what I mean by this is we want the ability to be able to populate things like the product landing page with descriptions and images. And of course we want to be able to implement things like attributes as well. So what I mean by that on the product landing page, if I go to one of my examples, is we still might want to specify things like.
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Unknown
Here. So if it's a label for example, as this example, as this example might be, we might want to specify different adhesives that are available, different stocks, different finishes. So that might adjust the price. But still we're expecting an upload from our user. So we're still utilizing attributes to define the product specification. But then we pass that over and we allow them to upload a related PDF.
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Unknown
So adding some things in there very quickly. We've got things like descriptions which are on the form details page. We've got pictures that we can upload.
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Unknown
For our products. I'm just going to pick anything.
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Unknown
And then we can go ahead and start to add things like our attributes. So as many of you know attributes can be added created separately and then applied to our products. This is all done in the product variant section. And this is also the same section where you would control things like pricing. Again, like other types of in figure products, you can control the pricing via basic pricing, tiered pricing, pricing, scripts if you want to do it that way.
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Unknown
And you can do contribute based pricing as well. So, for example, if some of those attribute values like a decent, for example, a slightly more expensive, you can change the pricing structure based on this. This is nothing specific to a multi-part product. This is stuff which is familiar to many of you for all different in figure product types.
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Unknown
The one exception we have for multi-part products is the ability to actually put a price in there by uploaded page, and I'll show that a little bit later on.
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Unknown
Okay, so forgive me for not dwelling on that bit too much. There's a lot to go through. And as I say, I think a lot of you are familiar with those concepts.
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Unknown
So. What I want to focus on next is some of the slightly more advanced capabilities outside of just the out of the box multi-part product. Most of these can be found when you navigate to a product details page for a multi-part product. So from the product management page. Okay, your product.
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Unknown
And then go to edit to get to the multi-part specific settings. We're working for this button, which is on the top right here called Multi-part config. This will take you to settings which are specific for this particular type of product. But the settings themselves only apply to that particular product you're working on. So I'll quickly walk you through some of the options that are available here.
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Unknown
So here for example we can see the price per page. So this is a static value. Well a single value of price per page that you can implement which will obviously update the price based on the amount of pages uploaded by the user into that PDF upload space. You've got the ability to do an output PDF profile. Now I will cover pitstop profiles in multi-part products a little bit later on.
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Unknown
However, in this case, this is applying a PDF profile to the output that's generated. So let's say for example, in the brochure example we were doing before. We've already merged three PDFs into one. That one PDF is our output, but then we're able to run a pitstop profile on that particular output. So for example here I have a very basic example, which I've called grayscale outputs.
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Unknown
I'll show you how to create these a little bit later on. But what that will do when specified in here. So the output will be created. Then it will run the profile which in this case just makes it a grayscale output. So it will just remove all the color. So that's where that's used. That's applied after the outputs created.
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Unknown
Very briefly skipping over these two is it's not our main focus but we've got page split set up if we want. I think that's if we want to do it the opposite way around. And actually split into multiple PDFs from one. And then we've got output mega scripts. So mega scripts we have separate documentation on. It's where you can create customized scripts to perform a whole multitude of tasks within in Vigo.
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Unknown
But then you can apply your your mega scripts to the particular product. Now this opens a big can of worms as to what you can potentially do. So it's not the main focus of this particular webinar.
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Unknown
What we'll be focusing on a lot today, which I think if anyone has actually played around with multiple products, this is probably what puts a lot of you off. So it's the configuration window, and this is the main place where we're going to be specifying a lot of information to do with the amount of upload areas, the allowable amount of pages in the uploads that people are providing.
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Unknown
Loads and loads of different things. Now, as I say, that's probably the main thing that puts people off because as it stands at the moment, this is to be manually specified and manually created in order to get that most part functioning. So we'll spend quite a bit of time going through that today. I'll come back to it.
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Unknown
And then scrolling down to the bottom here we have the ability to do these upload requirements. Now this leads me on nicely to the next section. I wanted to to explain and to cover which is multipart products. As you are aware, free rein basically allowing your customers to upload whatever documentation they want, whatever PDF or the file type that they want.
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Unknown
If you don't have guidelines or strict or various other things applied on there, they could upload whatever. And if you don't have any of these guidelines or checks and balances in place, they could put orders through with completely terrible artwork, which is not going to save you much time, because then you would need to go back to them and you'd have a back and forth trying to get the correct artwork, which is obviously not what we want.
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Unknown
There's multiple ways in which we can.
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Unknown
Incorporate these checks and balances. One of those is to give the user some additional instructions as to what files and what format of information is being expected in that particular upload.
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Unknown
Okay. So what I mean by this is so if I go to one of my examples we were working on.
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Unknown
You can see we've got some additional bits of information which will differ from that out of the box experience. So one is these upload requirements that are over on the left hand side. So a very clear indication of what the customer needs to do. It doesn't have to just be text. So this can be created using content templates which will actually put links in their images in there.
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Unknown
Downloading. Various files whatever you need to do. And they've also got the thing up on the top right here, which allows you to put a sample PDF for your customer to download as well. So let's say you want to give them a template they can work from. You can give them the ability to download a file, which they can use as a reference, and make sure that they provide you with compatible artwork.
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Unknown
So let's put those in very quickly.
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Unknown
So still on our multipart config screen we'll start off with our upload requirements. So that box that was in the bottom left is in yellow. Now we can just do this as rich edit rich text editors. We can do it as code mirror as many of you will be familiar with. But we can also do it with content templates.
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Unknown
So that just allows us to build some content.
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Unknown
So we can put in text. We can put in imagery.
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Unknown
And then that will be immediately available.
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Unknown
Within our upload requirements section on our upload screen.
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Unknown
Darrel, I have just seen your question to do with output PDF profile. I will explain that in a moment. They are slightly different, with the check profiles and the output profiles.
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Unknown
Okay. Right. So the last the other thing we had on here was the ability for them to download that sample file. Now this is not something which is specific to a multipart product in this particular case. But it does make it very useful. It's a useful thing to have on a multipart product. So if you want that download option to be available on the top right there to give them a sample file that is done.
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Unknown
So if I go back to my product specification.
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Unknown
Go to my product variant.
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Unknown
And then go to downloadable product. And within there I have the ability to say has sample download file. I can upload something into there.
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Unknown
And then that should now be available.
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Unknown
When we look at the product.
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Unknown
There you go. And that file can be whatever PDF you like.
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Unknown
Okay. Let me just reference my notes here. So you have missed anything.
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Unknown
Right.
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Unknown
So going back to our multipart config page now is where we're going to start looking at this particular configuration section here, which is probably the bulk of what we need to talk about today. So.
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Unknown
As I mentioned, this is where a lot of the configuration of the multipart is and is probably what puts quite a few people off in terms of specifying the details of it. But once you get your head around the structure of it, it's actually quite straightforward. And I've got a little tool I want to show you in a moment.
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Unknown
Which we've created on a separate page, which will assist you with doing this. But just to explain the structure of this, you understand, what this is doing is allowing you to specify a different part while primarily allowing you to specify different parts in your upload screen. So remember where we had three different upload areas for different parts of our sample brochure.
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Unknown
You would specify these as different parts within here.
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Unknown
Those parts each have their own specification and which is some of it's completed within the part configuration. And then some of it is also completed within the input items. So this allows you to specify certain information related to the parts that you have specified. So to clarify what I mean by parts, you let's say with our brochure example, we might have a part which is our front cover.
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Unknown
That's one part. We have a second part which is our internal content. And we have a third part which is our back cover when we're actually specifying the parts configuration. Let me see if I can reposition my screen a little bit better here. Give it some context.
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Unknown
So when we're specifying the part section about config, that is where we get one of these sections. Here an area to upload our input items. That is allowing us to specify information like how many pages are we allowing them to upload. Is there names and descriptions we want to associate with that? That kind of information.
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Unknown
But they are tied in with the parts that we've created. And then the third main section in here is the order. So this is basically just specifying the order in which the parts you've specified are going to be utilized. So basically it will control how they appear in here. For one. But it will also allow us to confirm how they're going to be combined together into one PDF.
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Unknown
So if you've got front cover content and back cover, you want to make sure that they're combined in the correct order. Otherwise it's going to be a completely useless output PDF. So that's what this section does.
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Unknown
Okay.
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Unknown
Now. So asking someone who doesn't have an XML or a coding background to actually go in and write this from scratch is a big ask. Appreciate that. So for this webinar, we put together a small, assistant tool.
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Unknown
So this is accessible from the page that I've given you. If you just go to this in figure multi-part product Config builder, that will take you to a separate page on the Academy. Which will include this particular tool. Now, before I start going through this, as you can see by the big flashing box there, there is a couple of things to consider when using it.
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Unknown
So this what this tool essentially does is it tries to provide you with an educational tool and an understanding tool to auto create that config for you. So rather than having to go and manually create the config, it allows you to select options and create the config for you. The idea eventually is that this will be in the software.
00:29:31:02 - 00:29:49:04
Unknown
We don't have that right now. So this tool was put together quite quickly just to be able to provide you with something useful out of this, out of this webinar. But as a result. So this is being put together as a site for the webinar. It's in beta phase at the moment. So do be careful when you're using it.
00:29:49:06 - 00:30:14:08
Unknown
It's primarily for educational and guidance purposes. You are more than welcome to use what it creates in your own products. However, I would highly recommend that you do thorough testing on that product before you set it to be published, because you want to make sure that the XML generated and what you're using is exactly right before you apply it to a published product available to your customers.
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Unknown
So do make sure if you use it, do make sure that you do some robust testing on what it provides.
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Unknown
Before we actually go through step by step what this creates and what kind of thing it does. Just to show you how to use it. So all it is, is a set of. Dropdown options and checkboxes for different things. We can include in that config. And so I'll go through this in a moment. And then we have a section to specify different parts that you want to include.
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Unknown
And again parts being things like from cover internal content and recover. And each of those different part sections will have their own specification as well. Once you've specified options in here you can click on create and it will create a resulting XML for you, which you can then copy and paste into your specification for your multi-part project.
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Unknown
Right.
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Unknown
So I'm just referencing my notes again here. So what I'm going to do is we're going through this. As I say, it's an educational tool more than anything else. So as we specify options in the tool, I'll keep referencing back to the complete XML that it creates here. So we can kind of see what impact that has had.
00:31:49:24 - 00:32:16:18
Unknown
So first and foremost when we're creating this XML is to do with the creation and specification of these parts. So I'm going to go ahead and just create a part to begin with. As you see that gives us a load more options, which is showing you the kind of information and specification that you can include in those parts.
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Unknown
So the first thing we want to do is name. So let's continue with our brochure example. We'll go for a front cover.
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Unknown
With next down we have a part type. So I'll get on to the other option here later. But what this essentially allows us to do is either use an approachable part. So what we've seen so far where a user can upload a PDF, but you've also got the ability to reference a static product that you've got elsewhere on your configure platform.
00:32:49:15 - 00:33:15:23
Unknown
So let's say for example, you've, you've you're trying to create a new output product, but where the first page is always static. So regardless of what the user uploads, there's always a first page which is always there. And it's completely static. You can have it so that one of these parts in the multipart just pulls from one of your other static PDF products within in figure.
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Unknown
So very useful. And we've got that in some of the examples that will, that will demonstrate, but we'll get onto that static one later on. First of all, I want to specify this upload area. So let's look at some of the options that we can put in there. We can put the page number range. So how many pages do we want.
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Unknown
The we want to allow that customer to upload. So if we're off from cover for example it might just be one page or nothing. We've got no sort of variation in that.
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Unknown
These check and fixed profiles are to do with the pitstop profiles. I'll come back to those in a second, I promise.
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Unknown
And then further down we have the UI name and UI description. These are just descriptions that will appear as part of that box for that particular section.
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Unknown
Zoom in slightly to see that.
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Unknown
And then finally on here we have the specification of how many upload areas the user can utilize. So what I mean by this and I can show it on one of my examples. Again.
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Unknown
So we've got our internal content here. For example on the on our brochure. Now in most cases it might be that that internal content that people would load is all in one PDF. It's fantastic. That's great. But what if they've got multiple PDFs? What if there's three different PDFs that contain the internal content? That option, I was just pointing out, allows you to put multiple different upload sections within the same parts, so you don't have to specify loads of different parts.
00:35:08:23 - 00:35:43:12
Unknown
So for example, if some people uploaded the internals as one PDF, some people uploaded it as six PDFs. We want to give them that option. And this is the option we have here. So you see at the moment I've got one internal content upload, I can very easily add a second into the same part.
00:35:43:15 - 00:35:52:01
Unknown
So now both of those will could be combined into the same PDF.
00:35:52:04 - 00:36:12:09
Unknown
And that is this section here. So this upload account type. So we can either specify it as a range. So for example for our front cover that we're specifying. Now the range of minimum is going to be one and maximum is going to be one because we only want one page. It's only going to be one upload. We can change the ranges.
00:36:12:11 - 00:36:30:12
Unknown
Or if we want to give people free specification of how many uploads areas to have in that particular part, we can change that to at least one.
00:36:30:15 - 00:36:52:29
Unknown
How that actually affects our resulting XML. So you can see how a lot of that information is being fed it. And again this is just to help your understanding of how this is actually constructed. So we're looking inside the part section there. We've got some initial configuration for that particular part. So it's user upload. We've given it a name.
00:36:52:29 - 00:37:14:17
Unknown
We've given it a minimum and maximum page numbers. And we've got profile URLs. But at the at present they are empty. We then got the input items which is including things like how many upload areas we have and the names that we've specified. And then we have the order which in this case has only got one item in it.
00:37:14:20 - 00:37:28:09
Unknown
So hopefully you can see how that's being created. Let's copy that and take that over to our products.
00:37:28:11 - 00:37:44:25
Unknown
And have a look at the end result.
00:37:44:28 - 00:37:58:23
Unknown
So I'm just going to paste our updated XML config into here. And then I'll just refresh my products and restart.
00:37:58:25 - 00:38:09:14
Unknown
So you can see there we've now got our front cover and one upload area that we can utilize.
00:38:09:17 - 00:38:42:08
Unknown
Now before I forget, you'll see here that I've got a PDF file upload size limit. Now I think by default that's quite low. It's something like five megabytes. So you might need to change this for some of the products that you create. This is done if I remember correctly, as part of the go settings that we saw earlier on.
00:38:42:10 - 00:39:14:27
Unknown
So if I search in there for maybe multipart again. You can see there we've got an option for multipart upload max file size in bytes. So you can change that to whatever value you want. It will be storefront wide. It is a storefront wide value for you.
00:39:15:00 - 00:39:39:09
Unknown
Okay. So hopefully that makes sense. I'll now talk about our pitstop profiles a little bit. So, very good question earlier on, Darrel. So we've got, a couple of different areas that you can specify these pitstop profiles. So for anyone that doesn't know what the pitstop profiles are, it's a way of pre flighting any artwork that's given to you.
00:39:39:11 - 00:40:04:27
Unknown
So it's not something that's created by in figure, we just integrate with and focus pitstop so you can get an integration which allows you to use their pitstop profiles in your configure storefront on your products. And what it means is that as the user uploads files to the Figo storefront, those files are run through a check.
00:40:04:29 - 00:40:33:18
Unknown
And this check can be a multitude of different things. How many pages it is, what size it is, what color formatting it is. And much, much more. And it allows you to make sure that whatever loading is actually in the correct format. Now you can do them as a check profile. So this is as the name suggests, it's just where a check and a report is being created.
00:40:33:21 - 00:41:05:19
Unknown
We won't actually do any physical changes to the file that they upload, but it will give them information on if they need to change anything. You've then got the ability to import a fixed profile. So again, as the name suggests, that if you if you want to do some automatic fixes on files that are uploaded, if it's required, and then you've got output profiles as well, then as I mentioned earlier on, that's where you can actually specify something that runs on the output file that's being created.
00:41:05:21 - 00:41:33:20
Unknown
Now in terms of a multipart product, there is the two areas where they can be specified. So your if you want to use an output PDF profile, which as I mentioned operates after the output has been created that is specified on here. And I'll show you where to create that in a moment. If you want to do a check or a fixed profile or both, those are specified within the XML itself.
00:41:33:22 - 00:41:55:26
Unknown
So either within the tool, if you want to utilize it this way. So as part of your part specification you've got check and fixed profiles. Or you can put it directly into the XML under these sections here. So they will be there by default. They're just left empty. But all you need to do is put the name of your profile within here.
00:41:56:02 - 00:42:20:01
Unknown
And then it will utilize that in terms of where you actually upload your pitstop profiles into in figure. It's really, really easy if you just go to your search bar in your figure area admin area, search PDF profile setup think is the page you want.
00:42:20:03 - 00:42:42:17
Unknown
And then all you're doing is uploading the profiles into here. Now as I mentioned, the profiles themselves are created externally to in figure. It's not our software that creates those. But once you've got that Pip file which is the pitstop profile, you can just import it into here.
00:42:42:19 - 00:43:01:03
Unknown
Now I won't go into too much detail on the creation of these, as it's sort of veering away from the topic a little bit. But there is additional resources on the Academy as to how you can upload your profiles and apply them to different product types, because you can get them to run on mega edit products as well.
00:43:01:15 - 00:43:26:06
Unknown
But just for our example cases to show you how these actually work. What I've got in here is a quick check and a quick fix. So these are just really simple profiles. One of them is checking that the color, format is in Cmyk, and one of them is fixing it. So if it's not in Cmyk then it will change it to be set.
00:43:26:09 - 00:43:39:14
Unknown
And what I'm going to do as our example is just get these to run on our particular, upload system.
00:43:39:17 - 00:44:04:04
Unknown
So I can do this as part of our tool here. So I'm just going to exactly put those names of the profiles in Cmyk check. And C and my k fix.
00:44:04:06 - 00:44:24:10
Unknown
So you can see those have now been populated. And I'll save that. Now something to know which is in the other documentation. If you look at it, if you're using both a check and the fix profile, then this is the way you should do it. So your check one goes into the check heading, of course, and then the fix one goes under the fix heading.
00:44:24:12 - 00:44:54:12
Unknown
You have got the option to just use one or the other of those as well. So you can just run a fix if you want and not a check if you do that, maybe someone a bit confusingly, it doesn't go within the fix profile. Think of these more as a step one and the step two. So if you're only running the fix profile, you'd put the name of the fix profile in here because you don't want to utilize the check.
00:44:54:15 - 00:45:01:19
Unknown
I hope that makes sense.
00:45:01:22 - 00:45:17:23
Unknown
Okay. So let's save those and view that product again.
00:45:17:25 - 00:45:23:04
Unknown
So now what we should find when I upload a.
00:45:23:06 - 00:45:39:26
Unknown
Piece of artwork is as we're uploading it, the profile should run and didn't run. Maybe I got the name wrong.
00:45:39:29 - 00:46:06:27
Unknown
Okay. That's fine. See them? Okay.
00:46:06:29 - 00:46:34:22
Unknown
Okay, so I'm making an error in here somewhere. But we should have seen that on one of our examples here. So as I was uploading to one of our example products, we had the same. The same thing, happening. So as we were loading the brochure, it would run that check profile or the fix profile that we had specified, and if it failed, it would tell us so, or if it was successful or if it had to run the fix.
00:46:34:27 - 00:46:46:04
Unknown
It will give us a report if we ask it to do so. And that gives us the ability to download that report for your customer to download the report. And,
00:46:46:06 - 00:46:52:25
Unknown
See what the test was and see if they need to make any changes.
00:46:52:27 - 00:47:10:13
Unknown
So that's an extra defense against getting artwork uploaded to and sent to your production system that isn't applicable. So it's going to make sure that you get a get that applicable artwork.
00:47:10:15 - 00:47:16:25
Unknown
Right. So let's have a look here.
00:47:16:27 - 00:47:25:05
Unknown
So I'm I'm very quickly going to specify another couple of parts in here for our example. So we've got front cover.
00:47:25:07 - 00:47:44:04
Unknown
And we've got internal content. Let's say it's one by another. User upload a much wider range of pages.
00:47:44:06 - 00:47:55:05
Unknown
And we will allow people to upload as many different PDFs into that part as they want.
00:47:55:07 - 00:48:19:04
Unknown
Now next we'll look at one of these static parts I was talking about. So what I'm talking about here is that we have a static PDF, product somewhere else on our own figures store storefront. So I know I'm jumping around tabs quite a bit. Hopefully everyone's okay, but I've got a product in here, which I think I call Post fix.
00:48:19:10 - 00:48:41:13
Unknown
The word that is just a static PDF product, with one single page in it. And I'm not giving people the ability just to purchase that product by themselves. I'm not going to advertise it on my storefront. It's just there in the background. But what I'm going to do is reference this particular product in my multi-part product.
00:48:41:15 - 00:49:04:10
Unknown
So what it will do every time somebody does this and then previews it, it will tag that static PDF onto, in this case onto the end of the resulting PDF that it creates. So I'm just going to go ahead and specify this in my, config construction tool.
00:49:04:13 - 00:49:30:29
Unknown
So I'll just call it postfix. This time it's not going to be user upload. It's going to be a static product. We then need to enter a product ID which is referencing that particular in video product. Now important note this isn't the general product id. I fell for this when I was playing around with it. It's not the general product ID, it's an ID for this specific static PDF product.
00:49:31:01 - 00:49:53:12
Unknown
So I'll just show you quickly how to find that. So just to show you what I mean by the differentiation. If I just go in and edit the product, you can find the product ID, the general product ID in the top of the and in the URL here. So in most cases our product ID would be considered for this product 2188.
00:49:53:14 - 00:50:04:11
Unknown
But for this particular scenario we need an ID for that particular static PDF. You can find this by going to the static PDF config.
00:50:04:14 - 00:50:17:04
Unknown
And then the idea that you see in here. So 65 in this case is the one that you want to use in your multipart configuration.
00:50:17:06 - 00:50:26:21
Unknown
So I'll go in 65 I can put in your description.
00:50:26:23 - 00:50:44:26
Unknown
And then I've got two options here for these parts. You can either put them right at the start or right at the end as it stands at the moment. They can't be put sort of in the middle of your PDFs just at the other start or at the end.
00:50:44:29 - 00:51:02:19
Unknown
Okay. Let's take another look at our config and you can see how that's being created. So within our part section we've now got two user upload parts. And then one part which is looking at our static PDF.
00:51:02:21 - 00:51:13:21
Unknown
We've got more sections in our input items. Again just giving us additional specifications for those different parts.
00:51:13:24 - 00:51:25:23
Unknown
And then we've got the order where you can see the order in which those are going to be visible on the page, in which they're going to be in the PDF. The resulting PDF.
00:51:25:25 - 00:51:55:00
Unknown
So let's take that into our products. And this is where I start to get way too many tabs.
00:51:55:03 - 00:52:11:11
Unknown
So you can see how we've started constructing here. We've now got two upload areas, but at the moment there's no reference to that static post fix that we've included. So I can do a single page for this one.
00:52:11:13 - 00:52:23:07
Unknown
I can do up to 300 pages for this one.
00:52:23:10 - 00:52:29:21
Unknown
And then if I go to my preview.
00:52:29:23 - 00:52:54:09
Unknown
What we should now see is a combination of all of those into one PDF. So we've got our front cover, our internal pages, and hopefully the post fix on the end where it's bringing in a product I wasn't expecting. Part of the problem with live demonstrations. So nothing ever works, right? First time, so apologize. But hopefully you can see the, what I'm trying to achieve.
00:52:54:10 - 00:53:04:10
Unknown
Yeah.
00:53:04:12 - 00:53:32:02
Unknown
Okay. I'm very aware that I'm running out of time. So looking at some other things that we're capable of doing within the multipart configuration, which you can set up, within the tool as well. So if you go right to the top of this specification tool, there is a number of global settings. So these are settings which generally appear within the configuration node of your multipart config.
00:53:32:04 - 00:54:04:13
Unknown
And these are things which apply to the entire multipart products not to individual parts. So there's different configurations of things. It's mostly true or false or just excluding them from the XML completely. It's things like controlling the type of preview that you want to do. Specifying whether or not previewing is mandatory, specifying whether or not people have to go through the upload editor at all, or they can just add straight to basket and deal with the artwork later.
00:54:05:04 - 00:54:20:20
Unknown
Just various different yes or no settings, just controlling different elements of the user experience. The descriptions on there, you can play around with those and and see what configurations work for you.
00:54:20:22 - 00:54:45:00
Unknown
What we also have is localization options. So this is very useful for those that have multiple languages working on one storefront. You're going to want it so that if someone's operating their storefront in a particular language setting, they have titles and descriptions that are shown in that particular language. So there's an option here to, to facilitate that.
00:54:45:02 - 00:55:17:17
Unknown
So let's just add French, for example. And how that actually gets added to our config is for every single part that we've specified. The UI name and UI description fields will now have a separate localization option underneath, which allows you to put in a particular language string if that particular language is specified on your storefront. So you see, for example, we've got I'm just going here.
00:55:17:17 - 00:55:39:20
Unknown
I've got a UI description which is upload interior pages, but then I've got a localization option. So if it's if the web if the storefront is set to French, I can change what this text is going to be. So it shows in the appropriate language.
00:55:39:22 - 00:56:04:18
Unknown
And finally, again, a big caveat. It's not, recommended for most users. We have a number of advanced options. Now primarily this is to do with configuring things like 3D preview or flipbook preview. It's a bit more advanced. I won't go through these in much detail now through time constraints and the fact that it's a whole other kind of worms, a whole other topic.
00:56:05:03 - 00:56:32:04
Unknown
But this is just to give you a feel and impression for what kind of options are required or, available when you're trying to specify different preview types. So, for example, if I go to 3D as a preview option, you can see there's a lot of potential different things that we have to specify. Chances are if you do want to play around with these you will probably need guidance from the configure team.
00:56:32:06 - 00:57:03:21
Unknown
So you can use this for reference. You can play around with it if you want to do so. But you probably will need guidance to, to implement those. One of the easiest things you can do just to backtrack on that is to actually get a kind of flipbook preview, which we saw on one of our examples.
00:57:03:24 - 00:57:23:27
Unknown
Again, it's not quite work to my live demonstration, but, hopefully you get the idea. So this allows you to actually have this sort of flipbook animate that some of you might have seen on static PDF products, for example, implementing that one does use your advanced tools, but it's quite simple to do. So all you need to do is go to a standard preview.
00:57:23:27 - 00:57:38:27
Unknown
Ironically, rather than flip, and then you say force flip. Force page flip is true.
00:57:39:00 - 00:58:00:16
Unknown
And that will force the, the preview window into that flipbook mode. So you can play around with that one as well. And that's the only config you would need.
00:58:00:18 - 00:58:07:22
Unknown
Okay. So I'm just checking my, my to do list again. One second.
00:58:07:24 - 00:58:29:09
Unknown
All right. So I have run out of time on this, I will there's a couple more things I want to go through, so I will continue. I appreciate that some of you might not be able to stay, but as we said earlier on, the recording will be available, after the webinar and on the Academy, if you, if you want to take a look at that, but for those that are able to stay, fantastic.
00:58:29:09 - 00:58:50:01
Unknown
I'll continue and I'll try to wrap up in the next 10 or 15 minutes. So the next thing I want to show is not the config anymore. We've covered as much of the config as I as I want to at the moment, but I do want to talk about, how you would set up these versioned products that I was talking about earlier on.
00:58:50:03 - 00:58:57:09
Unknown
So just to remind you of what those are.
00:58:57:11 - 00:59:22:01
Unknown
This is where you haven't got that upload editor as such that we've seen already. What this allows you to do is actually upload different versions of the same product specification. Now, again, I briefly went through this earlier on, but just to reiterate the sort of main use cases for this, this was primarily implemented actually for more the the label space.
00:59:22:04 - 00:59:53:20
Unknown
So the scenario here is that let's say we have a customer that wants to order 2000 labels, but 1000 of them need to be a certain design, 500 need to be another design, and 500 need to be a third design. Now in the in the traditional methodology, they would put those three with three different items in the basket, but you might want to offer them price breaks so you have cheaper production costs if they buy more labels.
00:59:53:21 - 01:00:20:23
Unknown
So you want to pass that on to the customer. In the traditional sense, that would be three items in a basket. You might not be able to offer the same kind of discounts in that. However, if you use this versioned system, you'd be able to do all of those 2000 products or 2000. Items as one order.
01:00:20:25 - 01:00:44:01
Unknown
So they still get the price breaks. However, you've got the different design elements specified, the different designs, you would still use the same specification of attributes. So things like if you had D save specified, if you had finishes stocks, various other things specified, you'd still have the exact same configuration of attributes for all of the products, all of the items.
01:00:44:03 - 01:01:07:23
Unknown
But you can change the artwork. So why this was developed for labels? I think we've seen people implement it in a few different scenarios, so it's definitely got wider applications. Actually setting this up is as easy as just flicking one switch on your product. At the moment, it's only applicable to these multiple products that we've been talking about.
01:01:08:19 - 01:01:33:20
Unknown
So let me just go to. Create a new product.
01:01:33:22 - 01:01:53:05
Unknown
The setting for this is going to be on the product variant options. And then if you're on a multiple product in here, you'll be able to find this option, which is enable versioning.
01:01:53:07 - 01:02:18:26
Unknown
And in its basic sense that is all you need to do. So of course you would apply attributes and landing page information and pricing and whatnot. But in terms of allowing people to upload multiple different versions of their artwork, that's now all you need to do. How that looks from the front end. So I could say, for example, I want to, we want to upload three different versions of the artwork.
01:02:18:28 - 01:02:49:12
Unknown
We can apply names and quantities. So what do we say 1500. 500. If we then click on upload, that will bring up a separate upload, window which your customers can access. And it just gives them the ability to upload separate pieces of artwork for each of those different versions.
01:02:49:15 - 01:02:53:29
Unknown
So.
01:02:54:01 - 01:03:10:28
Unknown
Potentially bad example, but I'll just upload, different brochure pages just to demonstrate. So that is no point for version one.
01:03:11:01 - 01:03:21:07
Unknown
Version two.
01:03:21:09 - 01:03:35:07
Unknown
And version three.
01:03:35:10 - 01:03:41:20
Unknown
Okay. So hopefully you can see how that specifies. And then when we add that to our basket.
01:03:41:22 - 01:04:03:04
Unknown
It now displays in there as one or the line or one section of the order. However we can expand that to show the different designs and the different quantities of those different designs. And the pricing would if we specified pricing on the product, it would be reflected in that as well.
01:04:03:07 - 01:04:35:19
Unknown
Okay. So while we've version products there, there is additional resources on the Go Academy if you want to have a look at those. The very final thing I want to, talk about here is the ability. Again, these are things which are in figure wide, not specific for multi-part products, but they can be useful. So it's the ability to add additional manual checks on artwork and on products, if it's required.
01:04:35:21 - 01:04:57:09
Unknown
So you can have your pitstop profiles, you can have those upload instructions and the downloadable example, but maybe in your first stages you can you still want to make sure that you trust the system, or you want to put an extra level of checking in there. It's each to their own. Everyone's got different ways of working, but there's a couple of ways in which you might want to do this.
01:04:58:00 - 01:05:23:09
Unknown
Which I can very quickly mention to you and talk you through. One of them is the ability to put a broker status on the any orders that come through your system. Now, this is storefront wide. It's not product by product. So keep that in mind. But what it means. If I just go to.
01:05:23:12 - 01:05:29:23
Unknown
The order settings screen.
01:05:29:25 - 01:05:52:02
Unknown
All it is is this checkbox here. It sets a broker status on all new orders that come through. And it means before they get fully integrated into your production workflow. They appear in the configure system with a broker status. It means that your team can go in and check the files that come out of it. Make sure that you're happy with it or make any changes if required.
01:05:52:05 - 01:06:06:02
Unknown
Once you're happy, just get rid of the broker status and it will carry on moving through the system. So if I save that.
01:06:06:04 - 01:06:39:19
Unknown
And then we'll just put that order through which I've just made.
01:06:39:21 - 01:06:48:03
Unknown
Okay. So what we should see now should be get saved and set that up all correctly.
01:06:48:06 - 01:07:00:23
Unknown
Is that order is now come through as blocked. So, no, that's not going any further in our production workflow than order being placed and then blocked.
01:07:00:26 - 01:07:15:26
Unknown
But then when we're ready, we can just get rid of the block status, and then it will continue through to whatever our workflow may be, whether that's hot folders within the go or getting pushed into a third party miss, whatever it might be.
01:07:16:09 - 01:07:46:03
Unknown
The other potential option for sanity checking, is the approval workflow. Now, this is more of a case of getting some users to check the, orders put in by other users, but it is a potential option if you want to add that extra layer of security in the early stages, or if your workflow requires it. So again, there's loads of resources on the Academy for approval workflow, which is it's its own topic.
01:07:46:21 - 01:08:24:14
Unknown
But it is it is most basic form, very easy to set up. You go to the approval workflow settings. Enable the improver workflow. And then what you do is you assign one or more of your users to have an approver, customer role, and then either on a user basis or on a product by product basis. You can say which approvers have to check either which users orders or certain product orders that come in.
01:08:24:17 - 01:08:35:24
Unknown
So for example, I've got it set up here where we've got per product approval enabled. And then I've got one particular product in my.
01:08:35:27 - 01:08:39:22
Unknown
Catalog.
01:08:39:25 - 01:09:05:27
Unknown
Which is a multi-part product. If approval is enabled I can go to this approval tab. And this is just saying that any time this product is ordered, this particular user or multiple users, if we want had to approve before it can go through. So we just make it's just an extra level of checking how that actually comes through into the system.
01:09:06:00 - 01:09:27:27
Unknown
So you have to be logged into the front end to see this properly. You get this approvals tab in the front end. So this would appear for approvers themselves and any orders that come through which are relevant to them that they need to approve would appear in here. So you could download the artwork and then you could approve or reject, cancel whatever you need to do.
01:09:27:29 - 01:09:40:28
Unknown
That's at its most basic sense. There's loads more approval workflow can do. And to reiterate, they are not multipart product specific. They can be used so for want.
01:09:41:01 - 01:10:02:04
Unknown
Okay. I think that's about all I needed to cover today. I hope that's been useful to everyone. I know. It's been a lot of information to throw at you. But those resources will stay available. The webinar recording will be available. And so, just want to thank you for paying attention and for thank you for listening.
01:10:02:16 - 01:10:55:20
Unknown
If you do have any remaining questions, please feel free to put them in. The questions panel will stick around for a little while. But apart from that, thank you very much. And we'll have another webinar in around about six weeks. So I hope to see you then.