Product Explorer And Product Creation
Roles: Editor, Reviewer, Admin Plans: Starter, Pro, Advanced, Enterprise
Here you learn:
- About the Product Explorer of the EnduraDocs Manager and its functions.
- What products are and how you create and manage them.
The Product Explorer serves as a central pool for all products of your workspace. In the Product Explorer, you can create new products, check the product state, and manage product information.
What you can do here:
- Create and manage products.
- Open products to edit their info or create revisions.
- Pin products to ensure they appear at the top of the product panel.
About Products
In the EnduraDocs Manager, a product represents a device from your portfolio. A product serves as a container for all the documentation files of its corresponding device, similar to a folder in a file system. Each product belongs to one workspace and is found in the Product Explorer.
The product settings serve as the identifying properties connecting it to
the device it represents and control how it is presented in the Documentation Portal and EnduraDocs Viewer.
- Name
- Serves as the identifier of the product. All product names must be unique. The product name is used in the EnduraDocs Manager, the Documentation Portal, and the EnduraDocs Viewer. Users and the operating personnel must be able to identify a product by its product name.
- Image
- Helps the user to recognize the product and connect it to the device it represents. An image of the complete device should work best. The image is used in the EnduraDocs Manager, the Documentation Portal, and the EnduraDocs Viewer.
- Global Trade Item Number
- Serves as an internationally used identifier. Developed by the GS1, the Global Item Trading Number (GTIN) allows you to track a device across multiple organizations and countries.
- Associated Portals
- List of Documentation Portals in which this product appears. If the product is assigned to no Documentation Portal, it can still be accessed in the EnduraDocs Viewer.
Instructions
Notice: Use the in-app tour for additional guidance during product creation.
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Open the Product Explorer of your workspace.
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Click "+ Product".
Ensure that you are not creating a duplicate. You should have only one
product per device.
The product creation window opens. -
Upload a PNG or JPG file to be used as product image in the EnduraDocs Manager and the EnduraDocs Viewer.
The image cropper opens.
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Crop the image if necessary. Then click "Accept".
Your side ratio is fixed. If you omit cropping, the image is clipped in the
UI.
The image is uploaded.
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Enter a unique name for the product.
The product name is an identifying property. Thus, you cannot create
multiple products with the same name.
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Enter the Global Trade Item Number of the product.
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Select the Documentation Portals that the product should appear in.
Products assigned to no Documentation Portal are still accessible in the EnduraDocs Viewer.
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When the image upload is completed, click "Submit."
If you click "Submit" during upload, the image will not appear in the product
info.
The new product is created and added to the product explorer.
Next Steps
The new product opens automatically, and you are forwarded to its product page. You can now start creating revisions.