Style Name & Number Generator - Admin Setup

Set up a standard for how you want your Style Names and Style Numbers to be created, and get a uniform naming/number structure for your styles

• SETUP STYLE NAME GENERATOR
• SETUP STYLE NUMBER GENERATOR
• CHOOSE IF YOU WANT TO USE THE GENERATOR WHEN COPYING A STYLE

SETUP STYLE NAME GENERATOR

When using the Style Name Generator you can set up a logic to how your Style names should be created.

Go to Admin > General Settings >Header section to set it up:

1. Click on the "Setup Style Name" button

This will open a pop-up where you can activate the Style Name generator - it will only be active once you set a check-mark in "Set style name logic active"

Once you have activated the Style Name Generator you can start building the structure for your Style Name

2. In the "Insert Value" drop-down you can select the values you want to be the structure for your Style Name.

They will appear in the text box below in the order you choose them

In the text box, you can also add additional text or characters - if needed.

In this example, any style will be named as:

• Project name
• Group name
• value of the Custom Field "Origin"
• between each value, there will be a "-"

SETUP STYLE NUMBER GENERATOR

Go to: Admin >General Settings > Header 
Here you can set up the standard logic for how your Style Number should be created.

1. Click on the "Setup Style number" button

This will open a pop-up to activate the Style Number generator - it will be active with a check-mark in "Set Style number logic active":

2. Define how many digits there should be in your Style Number - this is the "Consecutive digits".

Below 3 digits is chosen:

3. Now define which values should be in your Style Number - this can be:

• Brand name
• Season Name
• Group
• Style Categories
• Style Custom Fields
• The Consecutive number

Make your choices in the order you want the values to be featured in the style number

Click on the field: "INSERT VALUE", for a drop-down with values to choose from:

If you want a - between the values add this as shown above.
Once your selection is in place you click on NEXT"

4. Now define if you want to use the same Serial number for all Styles or if they have to be differentiated per a given data set:

You have 2 options:

A. "Use the same Serial number for all Styles" if you do not want to work with multiple number series. Decide which number to start from in "Serial number starts at" .
You might already have used all numbers below 300, so let it start from 301.

B. Make your Serial number dependent on a specific data set then click "Use multiple serial number for all Styles"

Here you can select which data set the serial number should be based on. You can only choose the data sets that you have chosen in step 3.

These can be:

• Brand
• Season
• Group
• Category
• Style Custom Fields that are of type Allowed value

Make a choice and set the starting serial number for each option

ONLY USE THE GENERATOR FOR NEW STYLES

You can set up the Style Number Generator to only generate numbers when you use the function"Add style", and not when you copy an already existing style.

Go to: Admin >General Settings > Header 
On the setup pop-up, you can checkmark the "Only used when creating a Style" setting. This setting means that the style number generator is only active for NEW styles, and not for copied styles.

 

How to use the Generator on the Style Level