Introduction & best practice
When your Style Name and Number generators are activated and set up in Admin - it will be used every time you create new Styles. This will help you to always stay consistent in your data and lets you work faster.
If you haven't yet learned how to set up the logic in Admin, you can read mere here.
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Video guide - style name and number generator
Description
This video describes the functionality of the style name and number generator in Delogue. It covers the following topics:
- short introduction to style name and style number generator Admin setup
- the use of the generator on Style level
Creating a new style using the generators
- Click on 'Add Style' in the top right hand corner.
- A pop-up for style creation will show with the selection option for the data used in the logic of the Style Name and Number generators.
It will also show the Brand and Season by default, as these are mandatory fields for the style creation. - If the Style Name generator is active - a field called 'Extra text' will also show in the pop-up.
- Once you start selecting your data, you will see the 'New style name' field show the selected values used in the Style Name generator logic.
The Style Number will show the text 'AUTOGENERATED STYLE NUMBER' until the style creation has been finalized.
- Once you have made all your selection, click on 'create style' and the pop-up will close. The style header will now display in edit mode.
- Add any extra data to the style header and click on the save icon to finalize your style creation.
- Your Style Number will be created according to your logic and the consecutive digits.
NOTE: It is not possible to create style through the Illustrator Plugin if you have either the Style Name or Number generator activated.
We recommend to create the styles via Delogue, before linking your Illustrator files.
Copy a style using the generators
- When you want to copy a style while working with the Style Name or Number generator, you need to start by clicking on the copy icon of the style you are copying from.
- Change any details for the new style in the pop-up.
Any changes made to details used in the Style Name or Number logic, will affect the name or number immediately represented in the pop-up.
For the Style Number, it will show as 'AUTOGENERATED STYLE NUMBER' until saved. - If you want to reuse the Style Name or Number, simple tick of the checkboxes:
- Keep name
- Keep number
NOTE: If you have activated the 'unique style number' in you Admin > Company Info, please note that you will not be able to use the 'Keep number' functionality.
- Once happy with you data, click on 'OK' to create the style.
Allow manual edit of style number
In some cases it can be necessary to be able to manually overwrite the style numbers.
In the Admin set up of the Style Number Generator, you have the option to activate the setting of 'Allow manual edit of style number'.
If this is activated, the system will allow you to manually overwrite the style number if both the creation phase or if updating an existing style.
NOTE: If you overwrite the Style Number manually, please note that the generator may still assign the same consecutive digits later, as manual entries are not automatically reserving the digits.
Update style name or number
In case you need to update a Style Name or Style Number that was created via the Generator - you need to go through these steps
- Set the Style header in Edit mode
- Click on the update icon next to the Style Name or Style number
- This will open the Update pop-up and you can edit whatever you need
- Click the 'Update Style' button
- For the style number update, you will be asked to confirm if you want to update the number or keep number, as this change might affect integrations to other systems.
- And remember to save the Style Header, to finalize your update.
The above steps can also be used if you have old Styles that were created before you started using the Style Name/Number generator.
NOTE: When ever you update the Style Number, please be aware that a new consecutive digit will always be assigned.
If you need to keep the consecutive digits, but change any other value from the generator, we recommend that you activate the 'Allow manual edit' from the Style Number Generator in Admin.
