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Overview

When a customer wants to create another product that uses content available from another product, such as a supplier catalog (like IPI) or other product, there fortunately is a way to do this. Howveer, it does involve a local Lab 50 configuraiton change as well as database side change.

These two steps, customer side and database side are outlined here:

The Customer-Side Setup

But I wanna offer cards that are different stock paper and at a different price and have them show all the Lucidiom and IPI content!  OK!

To be able to offer the same product (type/size) but alternate surfaces (and prices) online--- (no good kiosk option at the moment for this)

  1. In Lab 50, look up the folio product you want to duplicate (like 5x7 flat card), jot down the Product ID
  2. Create a new product (put Create New Product btn in upper left) and in the Product ID box (green), copy in that Product ID.
  3. Only if you need it to print to a different channel or have different settings that the originating product ID does, then assign a different ID for printing (yellow box).  Use a Product ID in the 9000 - 9999 range, which are reserved for custom dealer products that we do not need to assign/reserve/be notified of.  Pick an ID within that range and go with it (record what you are using so you don’t duplicate it later).  You will need to add the product to your apmconfig_products_custom.xml file and then configure it for printing in the Setup Wizard. (instructions follow)**
  4. (Otherwise the ID from the green box will be used for printing---which is fine if it prints to the same place the original one does.)
  5. Important step -> Contact Lucidiom support to link up the products in the database.  

Instructions for creating the apmconfig_products_custom.xml  …

You won’t have a custom products file unless you have created custom products previously.  You need to create one…to do this:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<products units="all">
<product width="12000in" minheight="0" position="9000" height="12000in" description="12x12 12-Month Calendar" id="9000" minwidth="0" package_type="calendar"/>
</products>

 

  1. In Notepad, open apmconfig_products.xml (located in C:\Program Files\Lucidiom Lab 50\Tools\PrintServer) and find the product you want to copy.  Copy the line for that product line as well as the top two lines of the apmconfig_products.xml and the bottom line of the apmconfig_products.xml into a new xml file named apmconfig_products_custom.xml.  It will look like this (where the red above is the product (or products) you have copied):
  2. Replace the ID and position code with the same ID in the 9000-9999 block that you used in the dialog box (the yellow highlighted box in the screenshot). The product ID and position code should use the same number.  Don’t repeat a number you have already used.
  3. Save as apmconfig_products_custom.xml in the same folder location where the apmconfig_products.xml is located, which for a Lab 50 machine is C:\Program Files\Lucidiom Lab 50\Tools\PrintServer
  4. Configure as needed in Setup Wizard…restart and test.

 

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