OIEP - Configuration Section for Datasheet PDF Creation

The 'Datasheet PDF Creation' process engine interfaces with InDesign and is an event-driven datasheet generator for outbound integration endpoints (OIEPs). For print customer, it automates PDF datasheet creation, saves them as assets in STEP, and automatically creates references to related products. Subsequently, when a change triggers an event, the OIEP runs and updates any affected datasheets, ensuring they are always up-to-date. Datasheet PDFs are used for a variety of reasons, such as providing specifications on a product to suppliers or customers prior to purchase, as illustrated in the following image.

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Prerequisites

  1. The Datasheet PDF Creation processing engine requires the enablement of the Print Publishing commercial license. Refer to the Publisher (Adobe InDesign Integration) topic in the Publisher (Adobe InDesign Integration) documentation for more information. Contact Stibo Systems to begin the process of enabling a license or licenses for your system.

  2. Create a designated asset hierarchy group to hold the datasheet PDFs. This can mimic the product or alternate classification structure that is already in place. For more information on creating assets, refer to the Assets topic in the Getting Started documentation.

Configuration

  1. Create an OIEP as defined in the recommended Creating an Event-Based Outbound Integration Endpoint topic. Alternatively, create a 'Select Objects' OIEP as defined in the Creating a Select Objects Outbound Integration Endpoint topic.

  2. Ensure all manual steps are completed via the OIEP - Event-Based - Manual Configuration topic or the OIEP - Select Objects - Manual Configuration topic.

    Note: The recommended setting for the Delivery Method parameter is 'No Delivery.'

  3. Set up the second Configuration section that is available when the 'Datasheet PDF Creation' process engine is selected, as shown below.

    The same parameters are included for the preferred Event Queue Data Source (identified by the Event Queue Configuration section in the image above) and Select Objects OIEPs.

    Available parameters include:

    • Asset Root: The node in the asset hierarchy below which all datasheets will be imported.

    • Asset Folder Object Type: The object type used for the datasheet asset hierarchy folder.

    • Asset Object Type: The object type to be used for the PDF datasheets.

    • Prefix for the Datasheet Asset ID: Prefix used as part of the datasheet asset ID.

    • Prefix for the Classification structure items (ID): Prefix used as part of the classification structure.

    • Naming pattern Attribute for PDF datasheet ID: Naming Pattern Attribute ID (calculated) for the PDF datasheet ID.

    • Naming pattern Attribute for PDF datasheet Name: Naming Pattern Attribute ID (calculated) for the PDF datasheet name.

    • Asset Content Dimension Point: Dimension point for which the asset content is visible.

    • Product/Classification Hierarchy Root: The node in the product or classification hierarchy where the datasheet assets will be created.

    • Validation Attribute: The validation attribute determines if a datasheet will be created. Any value for the validation attribute other than Y means datasheet creation is skipped for the current object.

    • Asset Reference Type: The reference type to be used for the PDF datasheets.

    • Alternate link target defining Attribute: Optional - A calculated attribute that provides a STEP ID to link the datasheet to a node other than the default (source) node.

    • Publication Group ID: The publication group below which all publications are located, defining the versions and template assignment for the PDF creation.

    • PDF Profile: The Adobe PDF profile ID used for the datasheet creation. The default is [High Quality Print].

    • XMP Title: Optional - The calculated attribute for the title of the generated PDF, which is stored as XMP metadata.

    • XMP Author: Optional - The calculated attribute for the author of the generated PDF, which is stored as XMP metadata.

    • XMP Subject: Optional - The calculated attribute for the subject of the generated PDF, which is stored as XMP metadata.

    • XMP Keywords: Optional - The calculated attribute for the keywords of the generated PDF, which is stored as XMP metadata.

    • Metafile Attribute: Optional - The metadata calculated attribute that contains more information needed by a third party for datasheet import, which is used to generate a CSV file.