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====== Products ======
The product page is the first page when logged in to a specific sub-domain, there are multiple sub-domains stored into the creator having multiple products.


A **Product** is the central component inside the IG.Creator. A Product comes from the [[ig.creator:assets:commercial|Commercial Assets]] and will be enriched with Graphics in this section of the tool. In order to create Graphics the following pages are available:

[[ig.creator:products:commercial|Mapping of Commercial Properties]]

[[ig.creator:products:graphical|Creation of Parametric 3D Graphics]]

[[ig.creator:products:projections|Creation of Parametric 2D Top or Front Graphics]]

[[ig.creator:products:graphical|Assignment of Product Categories]]

[[ig.creator:products:points|Definition of Attachment Points]]

Most of the pages and their subpages require a Selected Product. Selection can be done on this page, or in [[ig.creator:assets:commercial|Commercial Assets]]. If a page requires a selected product and there's no product selected, there will be an automatic redirect to this page.

The product page looks like this and has several options to work with.
{{ :ig.creator:products.png |}}

==== 1) Products List: ====

This table is separated into rows and columns. The first row holds different filter options for searching inside the list of Products. With the second row the list of Products begins.
Each Product has different columns that hold information for the user or is related to commercial purposes.

While creating a Product, certain options need to be fulfilled as follows.

  * **Product**: A product name must be given to the new product having no spaces, any other case can be used.Also, there is a special [[ig.creator:products:specials|Master Product]] that is used for holding properties, which will be inherited by all other products.

  * **State**: There are 12 states in which a product can be labeled. The State should help the user to see what is the current state of the Products. For instance, if articles have been changed to the commercial side or not.
        * **Sales Product**: It helps to inherit the structure of a corresponding Master product. Keep in mind this corresponding Master product is not the Master mentioned above. 
        * **Com Changed**: It shows that the commercial data is being changed (new import in commercial data).

  * **Preview**: This checkbox indicates if a Product has a preview image or not. It it is checked, the preview can be opend inside the right click menu, explained below. 

  * **Description UL**: The description of the product can be written in this section.

  * **Comment UL**: The comment can be anything that is useful to the other users as well as to the creator. Usually it is empty or holds the author of the uploaded product from the IG.GFX.Factory.

  * **New**: The new option helps to create a new product then continuing with adding Properties, Geometries, and Graphics to it. If the option is not available you can make it available for the sub-domain in the [[ig.creator:settings|Settings]]. After creating a new product a new root entity must be assigned. This is done on **the redirected page**.

  * **Edit, Delete**: The Product can be edited and deleted at any time. The editing in the name, state, description, or comment can be done. If any of the options are not available, you can make them available from [[ig.creator:settings|Settings]].

Additionaly, a right-click menu provides quick options to make changes on any Product. The options are similar to the above explained.
{{ :ig.creator:preview.png?150|}}

  * **Graphical**: Jump to the IG.Creator [[ig.creator:products:graphical|Graphical]] page located under Producs/Graphical.
  * **Configurator**: Jump to the IG.Creator [[ig.creator:products:graphical:configurator|Configurator]] page located under Products/Graphical/Configurator. 

  * **Clear Content**: The data is wiped clean and changes the state to Empty.

==== 2) Configurator: ====
Once any of the products is selected, click Configurator. This directs to the IG.Creator [[ig.creator:products:graphical:configurator|Configurator]] page.

=== 3) Work in Progress, Ready for Release: ===
Used to change the state of all the products altogether. Select **Ready for Release** to publish the data commercially.

==== 4) Rename Product: ====

The product can be renamed via this option, the name must not contain any spaces.

==== 5) Selection , Export: ==== 

Selection and Export belong together. Under //Export// different templates for export options are provided. In the //Selection// menu a choise of product states for export can be made.
{{ :ig.creator:Selection.png?200 |}}


For Export 9 different extensions can be used as per the requirement.

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   * **Export to Archetypes:** Ceates a template list of the articles to be used inside the IG.GXF.Factory. Use the whole list for one file or separate it into different files.

   * **Export to ICOM:** Ceates a template list of the articles to be used as ICOM cataloge.

   * **Export to IG.COM:** Export the selected Products to a simple commercial format to use it later on.

   * **Export to IGXD:** Export the selected Products to an IGXD structure.
     * **IGXD**: This is an unevaluated data format of the igxc 

   * **Export to PhotoCreator:** Ceates a template list to be used inside the [[ig:gfx:photocreator|IG.GFX.PhotoCreator]].

  *  **Export to CSV:** Export the Products page as csv file.

   * **Export to PDF:** Export the Products page as pdf file.

   * **Export to XLS:** xport the Products page as xls file.

   * **Export to XLSX:**xport the Products page as xlsx file.












Please have a look into [[ig.creator:products:specials|Specials]].