Linking product specifications

• Last updated on December 29, 2023
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A product specification based on the Data-Driven Editor workflow allows you to add the Data-Driven Editor (DDE) to your personalization process.

To set up the editor, navigate to the Product Specification section in your BackOffice account and click Create.

Selecting a workflow

When the New product specification page opens, define a product name and select a personalization workflow.

You can select either the Data-driven Editor or Data-driven Editor with Mockup workflow in the Standard folder. Both these workflows support a preview mockup, but Data-driven Editor with Mockup also supports overlays and background mockups on the canvas.

When you need to change the default settings of these workflows, copy the file to the Custom folder and make your changes.

Selecting a design

If you click the Design field, then a folder tree with designs connected to a data scheme will appear. This connection implements validation of the input fields.

However, you can go further and enable prefilling fields in this design with an optional attribute Data set as described below.

Enabling the prefill option

To enable prefilling the design fields in the editor, you must specify a DST file in the Data set attribute. This file may contain, for example, a database of employees, and when the DDE opens, you can paste the records into the editor one by one to verify their appearance.

This option adds the Prefill buttons to the editor for pasting data into design fields or clearing them.