Automated Product Creation
Use this feature if you have similar On-Demand Products that need to be created on a regular basis. The following single-version product types, i.e. 1 PDF per product, are supported:
•Unbound-Flat
•Unbound-Folded
•BoundSelfCover
•Bound-SeperateCover
•Unbound-Flat-VariableSize
PDF files can be dropped in input hot folders which are associated with a channel that creates the product and adds it to the specified store and category automatically.
Channel Name
The name of the channel as displayed in the Channel list. This requires that an External Account is configured. See
“External Accounts”.
External Location
Click the Edit button to open the Select Location editor where you can specify the following:
External Account
The PrintSphere account where the input folders are located and where PDFs can be dropped.
Location Folder
Choose or create a subfolder in the external account location. The folder you select as "Location folder" will be the root for the channel. The name of the sub-folder within the Location folder will be used as Category Name on the Store and the PrintSphere user must drop the PDF files in the subfolder in his PrintSphere Account. PDF files can never be dropped directly in the Location folder.
Store
Click the Edit button to select a store from the list.
Product Template
Click the Edit button to select a template that will be used to create the product using the input file
Update on Upload
This means that when a new PDF file is dropped in PrintSphere with a filename that is the same as an On-Demand product that is already available, the existing product will be updated to include the new PDF file.
Notifications tab
Lists the products created from the input PDF files with Status, Processing Time, Error, etc. The processed files can be filtered by Error Only, Channel and Date Range.