Color settings

Learn about the settings for your color library.

Introduction & Best Practice

Customize your work with colors, by choosing the settings that best fit your brand. With the appropriate settings, you can optimize your operations for greater efficiency.

Table of Contents

• Standard Settings

  • Use ID2
  • Use Unique color ID

• Color Library for Items - Setting

• Multiple Languages (PRO-feature)

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Standard Settings

The standard settings available to everyone are:

1) Use this color library for items

This allow you to select colors from the Admin Color Library, when creating colors on items. If this is not selected, then you will only be able to manually type in any item colors. 

Read more about the color settings for Item

 

2) Type ahead on Style color and Item Color:

• Search only on ID
• Search on Pantone number too

3) Allow Item Colors to be created in Style Item List

This allow you to add Item Colors to the Item, when adding the Item to the Style Item List.

Read more about this feature here.

 

4) Use ID2

Users with the Admin Role or Color Admin Role can choose to add an extra ID to the colors, called ID2. Some will need this for integration with their ERP system.

When this is selected this extra ID will appear in:

• The Color table (Library)
• Style Colors
• In Reports

5) Use Unique Color ID's

You can set up so that only unique Color ID's are allowed.

Just set a checkmark in the checkbox "Use unique Color ID"

If you have also the ID2 activated, you will now have two options:

• Only ID1 has to be unique
• The combination of ID1 and ID2 has to be unique

When you choose to use Unique ID's you should remember to check already created colors and their IDs.

Go to the Color sub-tab and click on the button "Click for Duplicates"

Then you will get a list of any colors that have duplicate IDs and you can edit them so there are no longer duplicates.

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Color Library for Items - Setting

When you check the 'Use color library for Items' option, the system will display two messages to confirm your action. Simply read and click OK to proceed.

You will now have more options to choose from regarding Color Cards and a Type-ahead feature. Choose the option the suits your company/brand the best and click the small green button to save.

1) Also Use Color Name

This allow you to have 4 fields on the Item Color Card. 

2) Style/Item list: Selection of item colors: 

• If there are less than "xxxx" colors in an item, the system will show color cars for selecting colors, otherwise is will use search field. 
  
  Having too many color cards can make it hard to find the right one. By adjusting the setting mentioned above, you can set the maximum number of color cards to display. Once this limit is reached, the system will switch to a search field with drop-down options for selecting a color.
  
  
• Also use color name in search

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Multiple Languages (PRO-feature)

When you have acquired the Multiple Language module, it is also possible to use multiple languages for color names.

The translations will be used as a look up in your color library, and it can also be used as a part of your integration to other systems. 

 

With multiple languages, different columns are created accordingly to the languages you have sat up in Admin > 'General settings'.

One column is created per language with English as the default language.