Create a Catalog PDF Template

• Overview
• Purpose
• Feature Description
• Instructions
• Important Notes

Overview

The Create Catalog PDF Template feature allows you to standardize settings such as the layout and output items used when generating a catalog PDF and create them as reusable templates.

Purpose

By creating a Catalog PDF Template in advance, you can repeatedly output catalog PDFs with the same settings, which primarily aims to standardize operations and prevent reliance on specific individuals.

Using templates saves the effort of entering settings each time, reducing man-hours and freeing up time.

Feature Description

Key Setting Items for Catalog PDF Templates

The key setting items for a Catalog PDF Template are as follows:

• Header
• Footer
• Layout
• Product Display Unit in PDF
• Display Property Items

Template Status

Templates have two statuses.

Status	Description
Public	The template is made public to buyers, and they can use it when downloading PDFs on the Buyer App side.
Private	The template is not made public to buyers, and they cannot use it.

Product Display Unit in PDF

For the Product Display Unit in PDF, you can specify one of the following:

• Product Item Level: Uses one display frame per product.
• Symbol SKU Item Level: Uses one display frame per symbol SKU of each product.

Display Property Items

For Display Property Items, you can specify a wide range of items starting with the Model Number and Product Name, as well as Custom Attributes and Blank Lines.

For each display item, you can specify the Font Size and whether to Truncate text.

Depending on the type of item, the output label name can be customized.

Price Display Items and Tax Specification

When specifying Price as a display item, you can specify the Tax to be applied.

Tax types must be created in the master in advance. For details, refer to Create a Tax Master.

Output Rules for Product Display Items

For the SKU Property and SKU Option display items, all variations valid for each level will be output.

For the Categories and Materials display items, you can specify the number to be output.

• Number Of Category Groups: Setting for the maximum number of categories registered to the product to be output.
• Number Of Materials: Setting for the maximum number of materials registered to the product to be output.

Target of Custom Attributes

Custom attributes in the display items refer to "Product Custom Attributes." They are not "Catalog Custom Attributes."

Instructions

Navigating to the Catalog PDF Template Creation Screen

1. Click the Catalogs menu.
2. Click Catalog PDF Templates.
3. Click Create a Catalog PDF Template.
   You will be taken to the "Create a Catalog PDF Template" page.

How to Fill Out the Form

Entering Basic Settings

1. Template No.
   Enter a name to identify the template.
   Although it says "No.", it is also used as the display name.

   Since this name is displayed across all languages, it is recommended to use an English name if you are supporting multiple languages.

2. Template Status
   Select from the dropdown whether to make the template Public or Private on the Buyer App side.

   • Public: Buyers can select from the published templates and download the catalog as a PDF on the Buyer App side.
   • Private: The template will not be displayed on the Buyer App side.

   Note that even if all templates are set to Private, buyers can still download the PDF in the default format.

3. Header Settings
   Specify using the checkbox whether to output a title in the header of each page.

   • If Display catalog title in PDF. is checked: Outputs the title in the header of each page.
     • You can freely enter text in the Custom Catalog Title field.
     • If left blank, the Catalog Name will be displayed as is.
   • If Display catalog title in PDF. is not checked: Nothing will be output in the header of each page.

4. Footer Settings
   Specify the display position and the content to be displayed in the footer of the catalog PDF.

   • Specify the Position of the print date and page number from the dropdown.
     The display position can be selected from the following:

     • Move to the left
     • Move to the center
     • Move to the right

   • If Display the print date in the PDF. is checked, the print date will be displayed in the footer of the catalog PDF.

   • If Display page numbers in a PDF. is checked, the page number will be displayed in the footer of the catalog PDF.

5. Layout
   Select the output layout for the catalog PDF you wish to set by checking the corresponding box.

6. Border Settings
   If Add a border to the right side of the product. is checked, a vertical divider line will be added to the right side of each product display frame.

7. Product Display Unit in PDF
   Specify the unit for products to be displayed in the catalog PDF.

   Select from the following items in the dropdown:

   • Product Item Level: Uses one display frame per product.
   • Symbol SKU Item Level: Uses one display frame per symbol SKU of each product.
     The "Symbol Images" registered for the products will be used for the displayed images.

8. Label Alignment
   Specify the alignment for display item labels such as Model Number, Product Name, and Price.

   Select Right or Left from the dropdown.

Entering Product Display Items

The configurable content varies depending on the specified display item.

The following operations are possible for each display item:

• Reordering by drag and drop
• Deletion using the trash can button

1. Specify the display item from the dropdown.

   You can specify display items for the product, such as Model Number, Product Name, Price, and SKU Property.

2. Display Property Label
   Enter the item name to be displayed on the PDF.

   Since this will be common across all languages, entering it in English is recommended for multi-language support.

3. Font Size
   Specify the font size from the dropdown. You can select from 6pt to 11pt.

4. Truncate text.
   Specify whether to truncate the text using the checkbox.

   • If Truncate text. is enabled: Truncates the text based on the specified Maximum Number Of Line Breaks.
   • If Truncate text. is disabled: Displays the text as is without truncation.

5. Selectable Tax
   Configure this only for display items related to price.

   Select the tax to be applied to the price from the dropdown.

   The tax master must be created in advance.

6. Number Of Category Groups
   Configure this only for the Categories display item.

   Specify the maximum number of categories registered to the product to be output.

7. Number Of Materials
   Configure this only for the Materials display item.

   Specify the maximum number of materials registered to the product to be output.

8. Add a Display Property
   Clicking this button adds one product display item.

9. Add a Blank Line
   Clicking this button adds a blank line between display items.

   Specify the Height between 6pt and 11pt.

Creating the Catalog PDF Template

After confirming the entered content, click the Create button.

If successful, the Catalog PDF Template is created.

Important Notes

No Preview Feature Exists

Currently, there is no preview feature.

After creating a template, you must download a PDF from any catalog to check and adjust it.

Be Mindful of the Combination of Layout and Information Volume

Depending on the combination of layout, product display items, and the volume of information in the product data, content may overflow the printable area of the PDF.

In particular, when including product descriptions in the display items, specify a layout that can display a large amount of text.

As a workaround, you may need to register "Notes for Catalog PDF" in the product master and use it as a display item in the template.