During the installation, several configurations were done on your Akeneo PIM.

Whether you are using our demo datasheet template or a specific template for your company, usage will be the same.

1. Login into your Akeneo system
2. Navigate to your products and display your product attributes
3. In the Attribute Group menu, you will fin 2 new Attribute Groups that were created.

How you work with these will depend on how you manage your product data in Akeneo, whether it is on common (parent product level) or on variant (child product level). This can be simplified when in Production, when we know how you manage your product data.

Please select the appropriate Attribute Groups for you for the next step.

1. Priint attribute Group
   As explained above, please select the Priint datasheet service common or variant Attribute Group, based on what level you manage your product data.
2. Priint template
   Please select the template that was installed during the installation process : Datasheet template 1
   This is a basic template that works on all Akeneo systems and that will allow to demonstrate the generation of a PDF and upload of it back into your Akeneo PIM. In Production, it is possible to manage multiple templates for each product. Templates can of course be customized to exact customer and brand needs as part of the delivery phase.
3. Generate PDF
   Click on the Generate PDF button under the product thumbnail to start the generation of your datasheet.
   This button will immediately trigger communication with our priint:cloud server, it will transfer product data required by the selected template and upload the PDF back to you Akeneo system once it is generated.

Viewing job progress
From your product page, displaying Attributes, you will find under EXTENSIONS, a priint:cloud Jobs option (1).

Click on the extension and you can see the progress of the generation job, you can view differents statuses (2) :

• PDF Generation in progress
• Error during the PDF Generation
• PDF Generated and Uploaded

In the event of an error, you can scroll this window to the right and click on Log to understand what went wrong.
the most common error is not selecting a template before starting the PDF rendering action.

Batch Generation of PDF
You can display a list of products, or do a search and select multiple products on which you want to generate PDF Datasheets.

On the screen under, select your products (1).

Then at the bottom of the screen, click on the GENERATE PDF button (2).

Tip: before doing a batch generation, please ensure that you have selected and saved a template for each of the products.
You can do this one product at the time or in Batch edit in Akeneo.

Limitation : Bulk actions are limited to 100 records at the time by Akeneo.
In Production, we will propose a different method to generate as many datasheets as needed via Akeneo Business rules.

Server-wide priint:cloud jobs view
You can review all priint jobs in progress on your server by following these simple steps :

1. Click on Akeneo Activity icon to the left
2. Scroll down the page, click on priint:cloud Jobs at the bottom (2).

There you will see all PDF generation jobs in progress, their satuses, which template was selected and eventual errors.
You can also display PDF generation logs in case you run into an error.

Test demo template

Here you can view an example of a datasheet genrated with our test template.
The design will not win us any designer of the year awards, but it will allow you to test a basic, universal, template on your product data.

The demo template wil display :

• Text type attributes
• Short description attribute (if existing)
• Long description attribute (if existing)
• Common names
• List of attributes found
• Reference entities
• Assets found
• The banner and text colors are based on family values

Tip : (select a product without too many assets)