Printing Templates

Modified on Tue, 02 May 2023 at 02:26 PM

Taking your data from digital onto paper is an important part of the day-to-day work. Whether exporting your products information (such as product certificate, product data sheet, production slip etc), or completing the required paperwork for your orders fulfillment (shipping labels, order appraisal, invoice etc), gemstones management (appraisal, memo, consignation agreement) - all this is an important aspect of the routine work.

Printing Templates are formats for printing. There are three types of printing templates:

Product Print Templates - visible in the Product page, include the Product parameters
Gemstone Print Templates - visible in the Gemstones page, include the Gemstone parameters
Order Print Templates - - visible in the Orders page, include the Order, Client and Order Product parameters

Templates can be created through visual editors, or in textual (HTML programming) mode.

Create print templates

go to Global settings -> Print Templates
Select the type of the template to create
Click "Add template" to create a new template or "Edit" to update an existing one
- Use the "Duplicate" option to create a similar template
In the edit page, use the built-in visual editor to create the template
- Add dynamic fields to the template
- Use the Preview option to see how the template will look like with a specific product order or gemstone

Advanced mode

Set a background image for the document.
- Upload the background image
- Margins define how the background image is displayed on the page.
Additional edit modes
- Text mode (advance) -, edit the template with code editor (HTML, CSS etc)
- Visual mode (default) - edit the template in the visual WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor

Using the template

go to the respective page (Products, Gemstones, Orders)
Select the items to print the information for
System action -> Print
Define Printing settings

After the printed document is created, it is available for download in the resulting batch