Datasheet service for Akeneo

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 one of your product’s attributes
3. In the Attribute Group menu, click and select Priint datasheet service group

During the installation using our Datasheet Service App, this Attribute Group with 3 new attributes was added to your Akeneo system.

 

Priint datasheet service attributes

1. Priint template attribute
   Here will be listed one or multiple templates configured for this product.
   Simply select the template you want to use, before starting the process.
   
   
2. Priint Status
   This attribute is used for multiple actions:
   
   Start PDF generation: This will trigger the creation of a new datasheet, if you select this value and save the record in Akeneo, your PDF will be generated in the cloud and saved back in your Akeneo PIM as a linked asset.
   
   PDF generated: This is an information status, informing the user that a datasheet was generated.
   
   PDF generation in progress:  This is an information status, informing the user when a datasheet as been requested, and is in progress of being rendered.
   
   Error during PDF generation: This is an information status, informing the user that an error was encountered during the generation process.
   
   
3. PDF generation log
   This attribute that displays a time stamp when the service ran the last time and a PDF was last generated.

 

Generating a datasheet

Getting started and generating a datasheet is quite simple:

1. Select the template you want to use

From the Priint template attribute, select the template you want to use for your rendering.

 

2. Start the generation process

From the Priint status attribute, click and select the Start PDF generation option.

 

3. Save the changes to your product record

Click on the SAVE button on the upper right corner in your Akeneo PIM, to save changes to the product.

 

All done, you go elsewhere in Akeneo, the rendering of your datasheet is processed on our priint:cloud servers, when done the PDF will be sent back to your Akeneo server.

Datasheet rendering time

The actual generation (rendering) of your datasheet is processed on our powerful priint:cloud server, the generation of the datasheets will take up to 5 minutes. The priint:cloud services responsible for generating the datasheets queries your PIM every 5 minutes for an order to generate new datasheets.

Please allow 5 to 6 minutes for your datasheet to be delivered to your PIM.

Datasheet delivery

Once your datasheet has been rendered by our priint:cloud server, your datasheet will be uploaded in PDF format directly into your Akeneo PIM, it will be uploaded to your server as an Asset linked to the product.

To view the datasheet that has been generated:

1. Go back to the product where you triggered the creation of the datasheet.
2. Go to the Assets linked to your product.
3. The new Datasheet will be saved in the PRIINT DATASHEET SERVICE group

 

4. To view or download the datasheet, click on the thumbnail of the datasheet.

 

You can then click on:

• Download, to Download the PDF to your computer.
• Edit Asset to edit the Asset record in Akeneo.

Datasheet templates

Setting up and creating new datasheets requires some technical service from priint:group technical team. This is needed in order to adapt the selected templates to your exact data model in your PIM.

For more on this, please contact our Support at support@priint.com

There are 2 types of datasheets that can be configured on your Akeneo PIM server.